AHIARA DIOCESE CRISIS: THE UNTOLD STORIES…7
Mbaise’s Quest For A Diocese Relegated! As Bishop Mark Unegbu began his ministry as the new bishop of Owerri Diocese in the last quarter...
AHIARA DIOCESE CRISIS: THE UNTOLD STORIES…6
Bishop Unegbu of Owerri Diocese When in early 1970 the defeated Igbo people started coming to terms with their monumental loss of the...
AHIARA DIOCESE CRISIS: THE UNTOLD STORIES…5
Onitsha Recaptures Owerri With the enormous power at his disposal as the Metropolitan of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, Archbishop...
AHIARA DIOCESE CRISIS: THE UNTOLD STORIES…4
The Birth of The Son-Of-The-Soil Syndrome After the little drama that preceded his appointment, Bishop Francis Arinze easily emerged the...
Ahiara Crisis: A Stitch in Time Saves Nine
By David Asonye Ihenacho* [An Essay sent to many Nigerian Catholic bishops on May 11, 2013] The Roman Catholic Church is unquestionably...
AHIARA DIOCESE CRISIS: THE UNTOLD STORIES…3
The Rise and Rise of Fr Francis Arinze With the exit of the powerful but humane Bishop of Owerri Diocese, Bishop Whelan, and along with...
AHIARA DIOCESE CRISIS THE UNTOLD STORIES …..2
The Civil War as the Spoiler Shortly after the meeting on the possibility of erecting dioceses for both Mbaise and Orlu peoples, the...
AHIARA DIOCESE CRISIS: THE UNTOLD STORIES ... 1
The Earliest Quest for a Diocese The first recorded request for a diocese to be erected among the densely populated people of Mbaise came...
THE NON-NEGOTIABLE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION
It is worth repeating, channeling our national sage Wole Soyinka that the only non-negotiable fact about Nigeria is her people’s right to...
AHIARA CRISIS: COUNTDOWN TO CATASTROPHE?
[Fr David Ihenacho's article published in The Sun Newspaper in May 2013] Barring some last-minute resolution, deals and other yet-to-be...
