As the new year’s wishes and resolutions come to an end, now is the time to roll up our sleeves in order to achieve the feasible part of those wishes and resolutions we made. The new year’s wishes and resolutions…
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu As this year 2021 comes to an end today, we give all glory to God for being with us at all times. To experience a better 2022, we we must resolve to revive our…
During the 19th century Christian mission in Africa, Religious Education in schools was introduced simply as an extension of catechism classes or Sunday school. This served the purpose of conversion or grooming those already converted in the faith of the…
By Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu ([email protected]) 25.12.2021 1) Owing to the daily betrayals, heartbreaks and disappointments, many Igbo sons and daughters no longer want to hear anything concerning teamwork. Many just want to do their own thing. Unfortunately, there is…
On 24 December, 1818, Fr Josef Mohr who was a priest in St Nicholas parish in Oberndorf, Salzburg Austria visited Franz Xaver Gruber, the parish organist. Fr Mohr handed Gruber a poem he had written some years before then to…
1) Why was it possible that less than 2000 colonialists were able to colonize the whole of Africa? Answer: teamwork. The colonialists were united. 2) Why was the African resistance against the colonialists not sustained? Answer: lack of teamwork among…
We are economically poor not because God has not blessed us but because we have not understood the connection between wealth and teamwork. Show me any sustainable investment that is not built on teamwork. If you think that you know…
One popular cartoon that many of us know is that of a man who was facing a python on a tree. At the foot of the tree is a lion waiting for him, and crocodiles are seen in the nearby…
One hot afternoon while taking my afternoon Siesta, I was woken up by a hard knock at my door. It was a sick-call. “Fr please come fast before the man gives up the ghost,” the voice from outside said in…
Exactly 136 years ago, 20 November 1885, the Holy Ghost Fathers missionaries arrived Southern Nigeria. Their first port of arrival was Akassa (Bayelsa state). They were 4 missionaries in all: Fr Joseph Lutz (32 years old), Fr John Horne (27),…
