Nicholas Okoh

Nicholas Dikeriehi Orogodo Okoh (born 10 November 1952, at Owa-Alero in the Delta State) is the former archbishop of Abuja Province and primate of the Church of Nigeria in the Anglican Communion.

Okoh served in the Nigerian Army, being commissioned as a lieutenant in 1982, promoted to captain in 1986, then to major in 1991 and lieutenant-colonel in 1996, his current rank.

In July 2009, in a sermon in Beckenham, Kent, Okoh made statements suggesting that Africa was under attack from Islam and that Muslims are "mass-producing" children to take over communities on the continent.

Okoh led the large delegation of 470 members of the Church of Nigeria that attended GAFCON 2, from 21 to 26 October 2013, in Nairobi, Kenya.

[3] Okoh was one of the speakers at the Colloquium on Marriage, held in the Vatican, in November 2014, at invitation of Pope Francis, whom he had the chance to meet and greet at the occasion.

[5] Speaking in Abuja in 2018 Okoh said that homosexuality is "veritably poisoning" Nigerian society, blaming satellite broadcasting and international media, and the disruption of traditional culture through urbanisation.