Senior Pastor of House on the Rock Church, Paul Adefarasin, has sparked nationwide debate after declaring that Nigeria was not created by God but was a colonial construct designed for Britain’s economic interests.
Speaking during a sermon, Adefarasin argued that the country was established for the benefit of the British Empire, not as a divine creation. According to him, Nigeria’s name was not indigenous but coined by the girlfriend of a British official during the colonial era.
“I don’t believe Nigeria was created by God. This nation was created for the business of the British purse so they wouldn’t have to bear the bill for the less prosperous parts of the region,” he said.
The cleric dismissed the country’s founding fathers — Obafemi Awolowo, Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello, and Nnamdi Azikiwe — as mere figures in a British-driven project, insisting Nigeria’s origins lay in decisions made by colonial authorities in Whitehall, London.
Adefarasin lamented Nigeria’s economic decline, noting that the nation should by now have become “the factory of Africa” but has instead turned into a dumping ground for second-hand goods.
He urged urgent reforms in the education sector, particularly in technical and vocational training, to equip citizens with manufacturing and innovative skills, citing China’s rise as a model.
“Nigeria must rise to become the factory of the world. But it will take men of justice and equity who devote themselves to nation-building,” Adefarasin Here’s a hard news rewrite of your draft
