'You must be close to Christ in the Eucharist … You must be close to Christ in your fidelity to the message of Christ,' Archbishop Akubeze advised soon-to-be priests.
The risk associated with being a Catholic priest in Nigeria has escalated in recent years as Muslim terror groups continue to commit atrocities against the Nigerian clergy.
'Terrorists are on free loose slaughtering, massacring, injuring, and installing terror in … Nigeria since over eight years not because of any reasonable thing but because they are evil — period,' Bishop Jude Ayodeji Arogundade said.