Nigeria as a multi-religious country has three main religious groups – Christians,
Muslims, and the adherents of traditional religions. But the most populous of the
three are Christians and Muslims, while the former are found more in the south-east
and south-west of the country among the Igbo and Yoruba major ethnic groups,
the latter are concentrated more in the north among the Hausa/Fulani2 major ethnic
group. Impliedly, in Northern Nigeria Christians constitute the minority who comes
from the minority ethnic groups and a meagre number from the Hausa/Fulani major
ethnic group. The two religious groups live together in the same communities with
some families having mix-religious adherents as a result of inter-marriages and or
proselytisation. But despite this togetherness, Christians and Muslims continue to
experience inter-religious tension.