CATHOLIC LAITY COUNCIL OF NIGERIA (CLCN) NATIONAL CONFERENCE (50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION), 7TH TO 10TH DECEMBER, 2023, AT THE PUBLIC SERVICE INSTITUTE OF NIGERIA, ABUJA
. Preamble The Church in Nigeria represented by the Bishops, the Priests, the Religious, male and female, and the Lay Faithful gathered in the ancient...
It is my privilege and honour to heartily welcome you to the 11th convocation ceremony of Veritas University, Abuja. We have gathered to celebrate the graduation of a crop of young students who have successfully completed their studies. We celebrate the result of hard work, commitment to studies, self- discipline, obedience to authority, and moral rectitude of the students of this prestigious university.
We thank God for the tremendous progress our university has recorded.
Following the unexpected news that I was among those to be conferred with the 2022 National Honours Award, many felicitated with me, while a very...
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Born in the Nigerian State of Taraba on the 31st July, 1958, Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama was ordained a Catholic priest in 1981. In 1995, he became the first Bishop of the Diocese of Jalingo, the capital city of his home State of Taraba. In 2000, he was installed as the Archbishop of Jos, capital of Plateau State and on 11th March 2019, the Holy Father Pope Francis appointed him Coadjutor Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja and he took full possession as Archbishop of Abuja in December 2019. Archbishop Kaigama is the founder of the Dialogue, Reconciliation, and Peace Centre, Jos (2011). He was elected President of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA) in 2015 and also served as the President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) for six years.
He has held positions as Chair of the Plateau State Inter-Religious Council for Peace and Harmony and Chair of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), in Plateau State for years. He was also a member of the Solomon Lar Presidential Committee mandated by the Federal Government to look into the causes of the Plateau ethno-religious crises and to proffer ways of bringing them to an end. He travels all around the world to speak about peace and share his experience of dialogue/interfaith collaboration and peace-building efforts.
His Grace holds a PhD in spiritual theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy and two honourary doctorate degrees in Public Administration and Human Resource Management by Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu (2015) and Madonna University (2016) respectively.
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