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)…
“The expulsion of missionaries from Biafra was another inhuman act, which we never thought of nor imagined. Isolated in a parish in the Okigwe section of Umuahia diocese where I had taken refuge, one of the Irish priests working with…
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu ([email protected]) The prophet is simply defined as God’s spokesman or woman. In the Old Testament Bible, as mouthpiece of God, the prophets were concerned with social justice. From Amos, Jeremiah, Ezekiel down to John…
