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Abstract
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the quest for economic diversification in Nigeria as the economy continue to fail to accommodate wide spectrum of people and sustain the basic needs of the masses. This leads to set of Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), a Medium Term Plan for 2017–2020 by the current government of Nigeria. While the ERGP is said to be developed for the purpose of restoring economic growth while leveraging the ingenuity and resilience of the Nigerian people; however, the plan failed to recognized and collaborate with important key players like the religious institutions in Nigeria. Thus, the paper sets to examine the side by side role of the Church and Christian religious studies in the quest for economic diversification in Nigeria. Through related documented material, the paper finds out that the church and Christian religious studies have been critical in the quest for economic diversification in Nigerian soil right from its inception till date. This can be verify from colossal contribution the due have done in the areas of quality education, Health care service, Agriculture, Employment, entrepreneurship and skills for self reliance as well as peace and secure environment for economy to drive. More so, the paper observes that Christian religious studies make students to imbibe the right moral, knowledge, discipline, understanding as well as psychological, social and spiritual, dispositions that lead students to develop the required skills and attitudes necessary for self reliance, human development, entrepreneurship, and wealth and job creation. The paper finally recommends among others the need for the government to encourage churches that have set up schools, hospital and Agricultural plan with loan in order to enhance successful running of the institution for economic diversification and also the need for government as a matter of urgency to recognise and collaborates with the church in the quest to diversifies the economy while given the utmost attention to Christian Religious Studies by both public and private stake holders in education and policy formulation looking at its pragmatic contribution