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ABSTRACT

Nigeria is predominantly considered as a religious society. Though Africans generally have been tagged a religious continent, but Nigeria seems to have outnumbered other African nations on the degree and growth of divergent attentions to religion. Her major religions are: African Traditional Religion, Christianity and Islam. This paper anchors on African traditional religious culture and Christianity and their impact toward eradicating or reducing corruption to the barest minimum. The problem of the study remains that the Christians and traditionalists have devoted immense strength through their biblical and traditional perceptions of the law and sin to curb corruption in Nigeria to no avail. The paper discovers that corruption in Nigeria has taken the shape of an anthill that appears dried outwardly but very fresh and alive inside. The research aims at addressing the issues with the contemporary structure of corruption and its panacea. The paper adopts hermeneutical and sociological research approach. It is recommended among other things, that the legal contents in the biblical and traditional laws against sin should be built in Nigeria constitution. Data were selected from primary and secondary sources. Data collected were analyzed with phenomenological method of data analysis.