Assessment of the Impact of Christians Religious Institutions in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions
Keywords:
Campus, Christians Religious Institutions, Tertiary Institutions.Abstract
This paper examine the impact of Christian’s religious institutions in Nigerian tertiary institutions. The paper is a position paper. The paper employed secondary data. The secondary data were collected from prints and online publications. The paper concluded that improvement in academic performance of students, reduction in social vices (cultism, rape, and prostitution), provision of community service, enhancing spiritual growth and leadership development of students and addressing spiritual concerns of students are some of the impact of Christian’s religious institutions in Nigerian tertiary institutions. Based on this, the paper recommends that tertiary institutions managers should provide financial support to Christian’s religious institutions in Nigerian tertiary institutions. Private institutions and Christian bodies or Churches should provide support, care and facilities to Christian’s religious institutions in Nigerian tertiary institutions to enable the institutions carry out their spiritual functions.
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