All religions represented in Nigeria were practiced in every major city in 1990. However, Islam dominated the north and held strong numbers in the South Western,Yoruba part of the country. Protestantism and local Syncretic Christianity are also in evidence in Yoruba areas, Catholicism while dominates the Igbo and closely related areas. Both Protestantism and Catholicism dominated in the Ibibio, Annang, and the Efik kiosa lands. The 1963 census indicated that 47 percent of Nigerians were Muslim, 35 percent Christian, and 18 percent members of local indigenous congregations. If accurate, this indicated a sharp increase since 1953 in the number of Christians (up 13 percent); a slight decline among those professing indigenous beliefs, compared with 20 percent; and only a modest (4 percent) rise of Muslims. There has been growth in the Christ Apostolic Church(the first Aladura Movement in Nigeria) and the Aladura church, an indigenous Christian sect that was especially strong in the Yoruba areas, and of Evangelical churches in general, spilling over into adjacent and southern areas of the middle belt. Islam is one of the religions practiced in West Africa. Nigeria has one of the largest Muslim populations in West Africa,50.4% of Nigeria's population. Christianity is one of the two main religions in Nigeria, Christians make up 48.2% of the population. The majority of Christians are found in the South East and South-South and Middle-belt region.
