After a rigorous selection process, another set of Fellows, 50 in all, were selected from the many individuals who applied for the 2023/2024 COFP Fellowship program. The first module of the 6th annual and 3rd Continental COFP Fellowship Program, commenced with the arrival of Fellows on Sunday, 23rd July, 2023, at the Ajuji Greenwich hotel, […]
To ensure that the less privileged children can access basic education beyond FCT Abuja, the Foundation expanded its scholarship scheme to indigent students and pupils in Nasarawa state. 50 students/pupils from ten different schools were assisted during the third term of 2022/2023 academic session while 42 of them received financial support during the 1st term […]
Through funding support from the Conrad Hilton Foundation and COFP Foundation, some COFP Fellows (Catholic Sisters) embarked on the second phase of their community development peace project in August 2023 following huge successes recorded during the first phase of their project in January, 2023. Their projects targeted destitute women and youth in their […]
After the painstaking effort ploughed into Modules 1and 2 by the 2022/2023 set of the COFP Fellowship program as well as the execution of a community peace project initiated by each one of the Fellows, they all had the honour of getting to the final and concluding phase of the Fellowship- Module 3! This was […]
Sustainability is one sure way of measuring how successful a project is. It is with this mindset that the Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace, set up a Pan-Africa Peace Hub as part of its strategy for sustaining the impact of the Fellowship program long after the graduation of the COFP Fellowship program students (Peace Fellows). […]
Despite the fact that education from primary up to the junior secondary level should be free according to the Child’s Right Act of 2003, children are nonetheless required to pay various fees, some of which they are unable to pay. As such, in the first half of this year, the COFP Foundation has been able […]
Earlier in the year, the COFP Foundation got the privilege of being accredited by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to observe and monitor Nigeria’s 2023 general elections. The first of the exercise was the Presidential and National Assembly elections which took place on Saturday, 25th February 2023. The second and final lap was the […]
The COFP Fellowship program is usually completed in the space of one year, with lessons collapsed into 3 modules; the first module in July, the second in November and the third in April! As such, participants (Fellows) are always given seed grants by the Foundation following the completion of the second module of the program […]
