A Review of Government Sponsored Pilgrimages in Nigeria —— Interrogating Nigerian Governments' practice of paying for their citizens' religious trips abroad

----- 尼日利亚政府资助的朝圣活动述评：质疑尼日利亚政府支付公民出国宗教旅行费用的做法

ISBN: 9786138880967 出版年：2019 页码：72 James Pam Scholars' Press

Nigerian national and sub-national governments are in the habit of using scarce resources to pay for the religious trips of their citizens to the holy lands each year. The benefits of these trips to the government cannot and have never been assessed. The country's Constitution expressly prohibits all governments from adoption or sponsorship of religion in any form. Government officials have expressed personal wishes to end the practice, but political expediency forces them to continue to vote funds for the jamboree. The economic, constitutional and other implications of this extra-budgetary expenditure are reviewed in this book. At the end of it all, a strong recommendation is made for Nigerian governments to end the wasteful practice.