Abstract:

Generally, a country’s government, as an umbrella-institution, accommodates state institutions like the judiciary, military, education, finance et cetera and the non-state institutions like the family, church, mosque et cetera. Also, the strength or otherwise of a country largely depends on the strength or otherwise of the subordinate institutions and vice versa; hence the popular negative notion of “strong individuals but weak institutions” in developing states like Nigeria. To this end, this paper sought answers to the following questions: is there a significant relationship between the Nigerian country’s administration and those of its church-institutions? To what extent has Nigerian country’s administration influenced those of its church-institutions? The data sources for answers to those questions were derived from secondary sources (descriptive method of analysis) as well as Participant Observation Technique (POT). The paper found and concluded that indeed, most organizations/institutions (secular or religious) resemble their host country significantly. The paper therefore recommended among others, that administrators of the Nigerian country should as a matter of utmost importance, take responsibility for the goings-on in religious organizations (church in particular) and urgently move away from their perennial elitist disposition to the populist. This, would not only enhance Jeremy Bentham’s “greatest happiness for the greatest number” in the country but influence religious leaders and their respective organizations to follow suit; not vice versa.