Source: AllAfrica.com

http://allafrica.com/stories/200404020622.html

On April 2, 2004 AllAfrica.com posted a Vanguard article that reported, "Government will continue to promote the peaceful coexistence which exists amongst the various religious groups in the country,' Vice President Atiku Abubakar said yesterday in Abuja. Speaking yesterday when the President, Ibrahim Niyasse University, Dakar, Senegal, Sheikh Imam Hassan Cisse led a 4-man delegation to his office, at the State house Abuja, Atiku said that Nigeria is a multi-lingual and multi-religious entity and 'our people have always lived together in peaceful co-existence which exists amongst the various religious groups in the country.' The Vice President noted that Nigeria has 'proved to the World that a nation with multi-religious entity can co-exist together' and called on the nations facing such challenges to emulate the religious harmony and tolerance that exists in Nigeria."