The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic posed a great challenge to the world, obstructing social and economic activities. It showed how fragile and dependent we are on one another. Unfortunately, COVID 19 did not only come with socio-economic difficulties but rising cases of rape, Gender Based Violence, hate speech, fake news/misconceptions and discrimination/stigmatization, communal clashes & […]
Apart from youth restiveness which include cultism, serving as thugs for politicians and other social vices, the use of Drug has been identified as one of the major causes of crises encountered by our youth. In response to this, COFP have come up with a program tagged, “Youths Living Above Drug and Substance Abuse/Addiction” (YOLDA). […]
Despite difficulties posed by the COVID 19 pandemic, the Class of 2020 COFP Fellows commenced theirthird and final module with a week-long program on Interreligious Dialogue, Conflict Transformation and Mediation from August9th – 15th, 2020 in Abuja Nigeria. According to the Executive Director, Sr. Agatha Chikelue, “The discovery of a novel coronavirus disease has exposed […]
It is disheartening to note that despite the fact that about 71% of the surface of the earth is covered by water, there is still water shortage in the world. This is more problematic in sub-Sahara Africa. According to Andrew Slaughter of University of Saskatchewan in 2017, only 67% of the world’s population have basic […]
On Thursday 26th September 2019, Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace (COFP) Conducted a one-day intensive training on Ending Violence Against Children for 40 Teachers and Caregivers selected from 15 Schools within the FCT Abuja. The participants consist of both Christians and Muslims and males and females from different Schools. Held at Top Rank Hotel Galaxy […]
Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace sees the basic rights of every child especially that of quality education as a priority. This is as a result of the high rate of school dropout and the inability to access good education by children in rural poor communities in Nigeria. The Foundation through its Scholarship award program ensures […]
The second module of the COFP Fellowship program commenced from 3rd – 11th November 2019 as a continuation of the first module held earlier in the year. It was more expansive than the first, as more courses were taught by competent facilitators..The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) had three days of extensive Project […]
As we have done annually, COFP carried-out another one-week intensive skill acquisition training on pastries, bakery and industrial production for the internally displaced women in Shuwari IDP camp, Maiduguri Borno state. The program ran for one full week from 13th to 20th October 2019 with a total number of 57 women from Christian and Muslim […]
Another free medical outreach was carried out for the less privilege persons living in Toge and Gosa communities in FCT Abuja. This marked the third and last outreach conducted by COFP in 2019. The outreach which lasted for two days, 27th & 28th November 2019 provided free medical attention to 438 children and 334 adults […]
After hitting the age of 75 in January 2019 as well as marking his 50th priestly anniversary (1969- 2019) in August 2019, His Eminence, John Cardinal Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, the President & Founder of COFP Foundation retires as the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja with the installation of his successor, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama on December 5th 2019. […]
