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Christianity
National Church of Nigeria, Abuja

The National Church of Nigeria
Christianity is one of the two main religions in Nigeria, according to a recent Pew study conducted in 2011, Christians now form the majority of the nation, comprising 55.2% of the population.[12] The ecclesiastical provinces of the Church of Nigeria are: Lagos, Ibadan, Ondo, Bendel, The Niger, Niger Delta, Owerri, Abuja, Kaduna and Jos.[13] Its primate is Nicholas Okoh.[13] The Church of Nigeria has about 17 million members.[14]
The Nigerian Baptist Convention has about three million baptized members.[15]
The Archdioceses of the Roman Catholic Church are: Abuja, Onitsha, Benin City, Calabar, Ibadan, Lagos, and Owerri.[16] It has about 39 million members in Nigeria.[17] Cardinal Francis Arinze is a Roman Catholic Cardinal from Nigeria.[18].
There are over 300,000 Early Pentecostal Apostolic Churches parishes in Nigeria having about 4.2 million adherent. Such denominations in this group are: 1) The Christ Apostolic Church, 2) The Apostolic Church, 3) The Celestial Church, 4) The Cherubim and Seraphim Church et cetera.
There are also about 380,000 New Apostolic Church parishes constituting about 6.5 million believers]]|New Apostolic Christians in Nigeria include: 1) The Redeemed Church, 4) Deeper Life Church, 5) Overcomers ministries and other new springs. Bye and large Protestantism particularly the Pentecostals, Apostolic and evangelicals constitute the major christian population of Nigeria from the late 1990s to the present. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nigeria

I guess it's important to it's followers.