A RETIRED IRISH SPIRITAN (HOLY GHOST FATHER) RECALLS THE NIGERIA-BIAFRAN WAR AND THE EXPULSION Owing to my last year’s write-up on the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of the Holy Ghost Fathers from Nigeria, one retired priest who was still…
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu ______________ 1) My dear gallant fallen youths; you went out to peacefully march on the streets in order to sooth the scars of your wounded Nation. Carrying nothing in your hands but…
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu 1) The police and military brutality, which was alien to Africans, has become a cankerworm in the Nigerian society today. Until this savagery is properly studied and tackled from the roots, police…
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu 1) The police and military brutality, which was alien to Africans, has become a cankerworm in the Nigerian society today. Until this savagery is properly studied and tackled from the roots, police…
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu 1) As the pictures of the flags soaked in the fresh blood of the massacred #EndSARS peaceful protesters at the Lekki Tollgate Lagos Nigeria by the Nigerian military began to filter in, my mind went…
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu ([email protected]) 1) My beloved Nigerian youths, the events of the recent times in our man-made hell-on-earth called Nigeria, made me proud for the first time of being a Nigerian. Since April this year, when…
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu ([email protected]) 1) According to the reports of Elizabeth Isichei, one of the most renowned Igbo historians, “in 1920 Igboland was swept by a deadly influenza epidemic which was, of course, worldwide. In the north-east…
1) Despite the litany of the injustices and horrors meted against the Igbo people/ Biafrans that led to the secession and eventually the civil war, there were still some Igbo people/Biafrans who stood on the side of Nigerian government, the…
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu ([email protected]) *Warning: Reader’s discretion* Historical records show that on December 6, 1886, the Catholic missionaries interceded for a woman of about 25 years old, who was to be sacrificed on the one month memorial…
The foreign mission of the Holy Ghost Fathers (Catholic missionaries) to Nigeria that began in December 1885 and ended in February 1970 recorded great successes. Yet, the mission was chequered with suspicion, quarrels, litigations, imprisonment, sickness, death and deportation. 1)…
