current cofp fellows 2024 2025 – Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace

HARRY HYELAPILA BWALA

Pentecostal Christian
Adamawa State
Program Officer, Social Cohesion and Peacebuilding, Catholic Relief Services, (CRS)

AMINA ABDULLAHI ABUBAKAR

Muslim
Yobe State
State Amirah of the Federation of Muslim Women Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN)

GOSIFE KIZITO EZE

Christian – Catholic
Enugu State
National President of the Catholic Youth Organization of Nigeria (CYON)

NANDE TERSOO MATTHEW

Christian – ECWA
Benue State
Community Liaison Officer of Neem Foundation

ORANEFO PATRICIA CHINYERE

Christian – Catholic
Anambra State
Member of the congregation of Daughters of Mary, Mother of Mercy

SEIDU ZAKARIA DOLI-WURA

Muslim
Greater Accra, Ghana
Chairperson of the Africa Union Interfaith Dialogue Forum (AU-IFDF) Steering committee

IVORGBA EMMANUEL ANDE

Christian
Plateau State
West Africa Regional Coordinator of the United Religions Initiative (URI)

JOEL OLUWATOYIN JOEL

Pentecostal Christian
Osun State
Divisional Intelligence Officer of the Nigeria Police Force in Oshogbo

ADAMU BADAMASI ALI

Shi’ia Muslim
Gombe State
Assistant Director, Gombe State Ministry of Finance and Economic Development

NWOKE IJEOMA ANN

Christian – Catholic
Abuja FCT
Program Officer at the Catholic Caritas Foundation Abuja

UKOREBI UKOREBI ESIEN

Pentecostal Christian
Cross River State
State Coordinator of Partners for Peace in the Niger Delta

MUNKAILU RAKIYA AHMED

Sunni Muslim
Imo State
Executive Director of the Ummah Peace Foundation

CHANDA VALENTINE CHANDA

Pentecostal Christian
Lusaka, Zambia
General Overseer of God’s Divine House of Glory ministries

OGUNMOLA MUHAMMED DAYO

Muslim
Ondo State
State Coordinator of the National Council of Muslim Youth Organizations (NACOMYO)

CECILIA LEO OBOH

Christian – Catholic
Abuja FCT
Cecilia is the Head Teacher of the Handmaids International Nursery School

ANYANWU CHRISTIANTUS IZUCHUKWU

Christian
Abuja FCT
Lecturer at Veritas University of Abuja (VUNA)

ALIYU HAUWA MUSA

Sunni Muslim
Kebbi State
Desk officer, Gender Based Violence Incidence Unit with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC)

BAMAIYI PWAVENO HULADEINO

Christian
Plateau State
Professor and Dean of the Department of Microbiology and Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Jos

NURA HAYATU ASHAFA

Muslim
Kaduna State
Program Officer, Peace and Conflict Youth Engagement Advisor, Muslim Matters at Interfaith Mediation Center (IMC),

NDUNERI UDODIRIM UGONNA

Pentecostal Christian
Abia State
Data Analyst and Project Officer at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network-Nigeria

BASHIR YAHAYA

Sunni Muslim
Oyo State
Officer 1 of the National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS) and E-tutor at Ahmadu Bello University Distance Learning Center

OGUNSORO VINCENT

Christian – Catholic
Abuja FCT
Priest of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja and Dean of Karu Deanery of the Archdiocese of Abuja

OMOLOLA EDITH ALAO

Pentecostal Christian
Borno State
Administrative Manager of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Emergency Program, Maiduguri.

ALOYSIUS VARMUYAH FOFANA

Muslim
Monrovia, Liberia
Founder and Executive Director of Rescued Kids Foundation

PRISCA HAPPINESS OVAT

Christian – Catholic
Akwa Ibom State
Assistant National Coordinator for Pro-Family Life Association of Nigeria, Uyo

ADEGBEGI EMMANUEL AYODEJI

Christian
Kaduna State
Regional Director, Health and Livelihoods of the Organization of African Instituted Churches (OAIC) Nigeria

OSUJI KELECHI JULIAN

Christian
Abuja FCT
National Coordinator and Administrator of the Young Catholic Students of Nigeria (YCSN)

ABDUSSALAM HAMEEDAT OPEYEMI

Sunni Muslim
Ogun State
Consultant Obstetrician Gynecologist at the Federal Medical Center Abeokuta and Sacred Heart Hospital Abeokuta

ANDREW DANJUMA DEWAN

Christian – Catholic
Plateau State
Priest of the Catholic Diocese of Pankshin and Associate Professor and Director, Advancement and Linkages at Plateau State University, Bokkos

ESAWE JULIET ESTHER

Christian – Catholic
Lagos State
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Catholic Hospital as the HOD of the laboratory unit, Ikeja. Lagos

OLOWONMI ABDUL-QAHHAR ADEDEJI

Ahmadiyya Muslim
Lagos State
Coordinating missionary for Imams at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at of Nigeria

FETOL MCCINTOSH SIAKOR

Christian
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Lawyer & human rights officer at the United Nations

ELIZABETH NGOZI NJOKU

Christian – Catholic
Nasarawa State
Sister from the Daughters of Divine Love Congregation

GAMBO GARBA MUHAMMAD

Sunni Muslim
Yobe State
He is the Executive Director of Taimako Community Development Initiative (TCDI)

NNSEWO IMAOBONG OTTU

Pentecostal Christian
Akwa-Ibom State
State Coordinator for Partners for Peace in the Niger Delta (P4P)

YAKUBU MISHARA

Baptist – Christian
Adamawa State
Agriculture and Livelihoods Officer at the Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

MARTINA TAIWO AKANDE

Christian – Catholic
Abuja FCT
Chief Education officer and Head of Mathematics Unit at Government Science and Technical College Abuja

YOHANNA LUKA MAGAJI

Christian – Catholic
Katsina State
Diocesan Chancellor and priest of the newly erected Catholic Diocese of Katsina

DELPHINE MBIA ASU

Christian
Abuja FCT
Works as a Correspondent at Vatican City Radio

ENIMOLA OLUSEGUN MARTINS

Christian
Kogi State
Retired Deputy Clerk Admin of the Kogi State House of Assembly

MBAH JAMES CHUKWUEMEKA

Christian – Catholic
Anambra State
Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR)

STELLA SALAMATU ALHASSAN

Christian – Catholic
Abuja FCT
Dean and Consultant at St. Lukes’s Schools, Abuja

ALIYU MUHAMMAD

Sunni Muslim
Yobe State
Works with the Youth Initiative Against Terrorism (YIAT) as a Peacebuilding Cluster Lead in Damaturu

URSULA DJEPHLADA

Christian
Taraba State
Refugee coordinator and the accountant of Sancta Maria health clinic and maternity Takum

YATU PHILEMON YATU

ECWA Christian
Borno State
MEAL Manager of the Catholic Relief Services Borno

MASALINE FRANCIS

Christian
Monrovia, Liberia
Founder/CEO of Youth International Leadership Institute (YIL-Network)

CHUKWU AGATHA CHISOM

Christian – Catholic
Anambra State
Sister of the Holy Family Sisters of the Needy and currently work in Awka Anambra State

ABUBAKAR IBRAHIM AHMAD

Shia Muslim
Adamawa State
State PRO of Muslim Students Society of Nigeria and Admin Officer of the NYSC

Current COFP Fellows 2024/2025

Module 1 Interviews