Bishop Nwokolo declares 2025 year of great expectations, urges Federal Government to save South East from insecurity

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Bishop on the Niger, Anglican Communion, Anambra State, the Rt Rev Dr Owen Nwokolo, has declared 2025 as a year of great expectations for Nigeria but appealed to the Federal and South East State Governments to make haste to save Easterners from insecurity in the region.

He hailed Nigerians for their resilience in overcoming various challenges of 2024 and advised them to prepare themselves to be awash with Great Expectations in 2025.

The bishop while making the appeal on New Year Message in Onitsha to Nigerians regretted that insecurity was becoming an intractable phenomenon in the South East.

He consequently enjoined the Federal and South Eastern State Governments to join forces towards containing what he called unacceptable menace of insecurity of lives and property in South Eastern region.

Nwokolo had also while declaring 2025 a year of Great Expectations, explained that the manifestation of any expected good change in 2025 depended on positive actions of Nigerians.

According to Bishop Nwokolo, for Nigeria and her citizens to experience the Great Expectations borne of positive attitudes in the New Year, they should consciously cultivate clear vision, design quality planning and place absolute trust in God.

The bishop said: “We, in fact, declare this year, the year of hope; the year of
Great Expectations. And as the New Year usually comes with new expectations, new lifestyles, new visions, new insights as well as with new plannings, our call on Nigerians, therefore, is for everyone to begin now to plan.

“As the year is still fresh, this is the time for everyone to begin to plan for this year, 2025. Remember that planning helps to put things in clearer perspective.

“Again, remember the saying: “He who fails to plan, plans to fail”. So, we encourage you to set laudable and feasible plans, we assure you, God will take over the plans and make them to succeed by divinely ordering your footsteps”.

Continuing the Bishop said: “The Lord is the Lord of the years. There are seasons in the world; time to be born, time to grow and time to die, and time to do other things as recorded in Ecellsiastics Chapter Three. May we be guided by these as we navigate the next 12 month’s of the New Year.”