Port Harcourt — NATIONAL Project One Nigeria (NAPON), a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) in Niger Delta Community has urged the religious leaders in the country to pray fervently for the nation's unity and development.

A statement signed by the group in Port Harcourt, the state capital, said: "The nation needed fervent prayers for its leaders to succeed and carry the country to a greater height.

The group which noted that corruption had eaten deep into the fabrics of the nation and needed divine powers to eradicate and sanitized all the segment of the society for better growth.

"Corruption by public officers has become a full blown cancer in the body of the nation; we need spiritual solution to this," the statement added.

"As a body, it is our view that the solution can only come if the nation's religious leaders sincerely sought the face of God, this is a duty they owe this country," the group said.

The NGO also called on Nigerians to always highlight issues that would strengthen the unity of the nation.

NAPON also cautioned elder statesmen in the country, who were in the habit of making negative remarks about the nation to desist, from such unpatriotic utterances.

"Such negative remarks paint the nation in bad light. We have to all be alive to our responsibilities of keeping Nigeria as one entity," the group declared.