LAGOS – A group, Saint Cecilia Choir, Ijegun, on Sunday urged Nigerians to express love, regardless of their differences, especially to the less privileged during the yuletide.
The president of the group, Mr Gee Ukwani, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) during a visit to the Citadel Orphanage Home in the LASU-Igando road area of Lagos that the period should be used more to propagate love and unity.
“This season should bring forth joy and hope to the aggrieved, peace to the troubled souls and provision to the needy, as motherless children,” he said.
According to him, love is a powerful tool that can put behind every form of violence, misunderstanding or crisis, which the season brings forth.
He, however, urged aggrieved groups and individuals in the country to see love as the primary reason for the season by putting away all anger.
“We should use this season to express love to one another by visiting and sharing gift items to the needy and displaced persons.
“It is not just a period for merriment and partying, we need to reach out and show some care because God showed that care by offering his only son,” he said.
Ukwani called on religious groups and individuals to use the period to demonstrate love by putting smiles on the faces of the needy.
While receiving the gifts, the founder of the home, Mrs Christy Iyile, commended the group for putting smiles in the lives of the children.
“We have children abandoned in public places, while some lost their mums at birth; we collaborate with the government to take proper care of the children,” she said.
Iyile urged mothers to join hands in curbing teenage pregnancies by being friends to their girl children and keeping close watch on the friends they keep.
The group presented food items, clothes, shoes, detergents, beverages, cartons of indomie noodles, juice drinks and cash gifts to the orphanage. (NAN)
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