Ugandan Catholic Priest Granted Bail After Being Held for 69 Days Over Alleged Security Threat
A Catholic Priest, critical of the Yoweri Museveni regime, has finally been released from Police Custody after 69 days of detention.
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Almsgiving in Action: This Lent, Catholic Church in Scotland Pledges Water to Ethiopia
This year, the Catholic Church in Scotland is firmly dedicating its Lenten campaign to the urgent need for clean water in the Horn of Africa, specifically Ethiopia.
Over half of the people in Nigeria are multi-dimensionally poor, 65 percent of them live in the North – World Food Programme
The latest data by the World Food Programme (WFP) has raised alarm over the humanitarian crisis across Nigeria’s northern states.
Tales of Woro Attack: Plateau Survivors Offloaded in Trucks Demand Urgent Government Aid
When the news of the Tuesday, 3 February 2026, attacks on the Woro-Nuku communities in Kwara State by suspected Jihadists, which resulted in the death of about 200 people, broke, little did anyone know that at least 5000 of those victims were Plateau State indigenes who had migrated to the community for farming purposes.
Plateau Community Leaders Overwhelmed by about 5000 Displaced Persons, Count Losses Following 31 Persons Killed in Kwara
Community leaders in Ganawuri District of Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State, north-central Nigeria, the epicentre of incessant attacks by suspected Fulani militia, have lamented that their woes have increased due to the recent unprecedented influx of thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) into their community.
AU Elects New Leaders as UN Secretary General Urges Peace, Global Stability
Following the just concluded thirty-nineth (39th) Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU), at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, new leaders have been elected at the gathering which the United Nation’s Secretary-General, António Guterres urged for sustainable peace and security across the continent.
Nigeria: Shanahan [Catholic] University obtains hostel facility on lease
The Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha, South-Eastern Nigeria, has taken over a new hostel facility for students of the newly established Shanahan University, Onitsha from a traditional ruler on lease.
Nigeria: Philanthropist supports evangelisation, donates N300 Million to Catholic Diocese of Ekwulobia
A Nigerian philanthropist, Chief Sir. Dr. Ikenna Okafor (IDE Akwaeze) has presented N300 hundred million to the Catholic Diocese of Ekwulobia to support the evangelising mission of the Church.
Women lawyers seek survivors centered traditional penalties for GBV perpetrators
The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Nigeria has charged traditional rulers in Plateau state Central Nigeria to be survivors centered in dispensing traditional penalties to cases of gender-based violence in their respective communities.
Catholic Diocese of Umuahia Donates Electric Street Sweepers to Abia Government
Inspired by the principle of subsidiarity and corporate governance, the Catholic Diocese of Umuahia recently donated two new electric street sweepers and scraper vehicles to the Abia State Government.
