Nigeria on Friday unveiled a nine-metre tall statue of Jesus Christ carved from white marble, thought to be the biggest of its kind in Africa.
Standing barefoot with arms outstretched, the "Jesus de Greatest" statue weighs in at 40 tonnes.


More than 100 priests and hundreds of Catholic worshippers attended the nine-metre (30-foot) statue's official unveiling in the village of Abajah in Imo state, Nigeria.

The statute was commissioned by Obinna Onuoha, a local businessman who hired a Chinese company to carve it. It was placed in the grounds of a 2000-capacity church that he built in 2012.


In his homily at a Mass before unveiling the statue, presiding bishop Augustine Tochukwu Okwuoma said it is a "very great symbol of faith" for Catholic worshippers and passers-by alike and remind them of the importance of Jesus Christ," The presiding Bishop blessed the statue after mass.

The cost of the statue has not been revealed.

The 43-year-old boss of an oil and gas service company timed the statue's unveiling to coincide with his parents' 50th wedding anniversary.


He said the idea of building a giant statue of Jesus came to him in a dream nearly 20 years ago.
And when his 68-year-old mother fell seriously ill a few years ago, she made him promise that he would build a church if she survived.

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All d people involved in this are maaaaadd!!! Statue? Statue?!

bronzegoddess:
All d people involved in this are maaaaadd!!! Statue?
Statue?!

ain't you a bronzegoddess yourself which qualifies you as a statue

bronzegoddess:
All d people involved in this are maaaaadd!!! Statue?
Statue?!

ain't you a bronzegoddess yourself which qualifies you as a statue

No one knows what Jesus looked like yet we erect statues of 'Jesus'. What if the statue is of satan, how do we know? Yet we venerate statues ...

Nina4u:
No one knows what Jesus looked like yet we erect statues of 'Jesus'. What if the statue is of satan, how do we know? Yet we venerate statues ...

lol

Leviticus 26:1King James Version (KJV)
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God...

ok

Cool, to those critic pls not he didnt use d money to buy jet, phantom, range rover and oda tins. Used it to bring tourism to his village. Surely pple wud come to visit d statue, hotels , traders and oda businesses wud boom in his village. Correct man

Confused people. I dunno where they saw a picture of Jesus that they've idolized an ordinary human. The Bible says ' my people perish for lack of knowledge ' .smh

Wetin be this one ?? Wey I just start they enjoy Badoo and Butty beef.. Lol. Oyanow make una post another topic on d Lami-Street and Don-common get inside. Lol its getting More interesting to me..


Dasuki-gate Nko.. Oya more post jhor ..

If U dey stay for island if dem born U well come mainland 2morow.. Wetin happen in 1965 go happen to U...



Don't ask me wetin happen..

Hmm....reminds one of Christ the Redeemer Statue in Brazil.

Hope he has Jesus in his heart.

Idol worship.

Absolutely! Ridiculous! More brain washing of the gullibles, now they are worshiping and idolising some white junky of a man

That's cool

ok

sweetttttttt jeezuzzzzzzzzz

not sure of religious Implications, but its sure good for beautification

na by dat one? e no mean say u go go heaven oh...and dats a graven image by d way

The white man has done his job on Africans. It is complete. The colonial brainwashing has worked as planned. Adios Africans. You would have being a great people. RIP.

Money miss road.
Abi na blood money sef.
Mtcheew!

Whoa! The savior of the world deserve more honor than these......so impressive though

And some pple will be bowing down for this STATUE? Smh

Nice

How come this is Jesus? and why all the Christian accepted this Jesus?

THAT SCULPTURE CANT BE JESUS. JESUS DIED AT THE AGE OF 33 YEARS WHEN HE WAS ON EARTH BUT THAT MAN LOOK 60 YEARS. APC GOVERNMENT IS FULL OF LIARS