According to Bishop Emmanuel Badejo of the Catholic Diocese of Oyo, cell-phones, I-pads and all such technology need to be banned because they have taken control of humans.

"The basic principle is to tell the phone and oneself, `I am the master here, not you. I can decide whether to pick you up, when to do so and when not to.’

If people understand that technology also has an underlying characteristic of usurping and curtailing their freedom, they might use technology differently and exercise control over it.

When it then infringes on spiritual space in churches or at prayer, then the matter becomes a real crisis", he told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

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Rev. Msgr Gabriel Osu, the Director of Social Communications, Catholic Archdiocese outrightly asked for phones to be banned.

"People have turned a positive invention to misplacement of priority; such an act does not show reverence to God and should be prohibited in places of worship,’’ he said.

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Pulse readers were asked to weigh in.

Surprisingly, majority agreed with the priests.

An astonishing 77.8% voted for the prohibition of phones, while 22.2% disagreed.

Whose side are you on?