Students’ Cohabitation, Church raises Alarm

It is simply unacceptable!  Male and female undergraduate students are living together and sharing rooms in privately owned University accommodations. Many observers say it is not a problem of shortage of hostels but perhaps a fast increasing sense of a permissive culture that is destroying the moral fabric of our society. Living on the same floor of the same building and using the same toilets and bathrooms surely stokes the embers of sexual immorality. Information that this ugly situation is occurring at different private accommodations built for Imo State University students and their peers in other tertiary institutions, has filtered into the ears of the church. His Grace, the Archbishop of Owerri, Most Rev. Anthony…

Prof. Awuzie calls for Catholic University in Orlu

The Vice-Chancellor of the Imo State University, Owerri, Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie has called for the establishment of a Catholic University in Orlu Diocese, Imo State. Speaking during an award ceremony organized by the Orlu Diocesan Laity Council at the Holy Trinity Cathedral Orlu, Prof. Awuzie said the establishment of a Catholic University in Orlu will help absorb thousands of Imo State candidates who could not be admitted into the Imo State University Owerri and the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO). Prof. Awuzie, who was the chairman of the occasion, revealed that of about 140,000 candidates who applied for admission in IMSU and FUTO, only about 10,000 candidates could be admitted in the two universities. …

Prof. Nwajiuba to deliver 2014 Odenigbo lecture

Professor Chinedu Nwajiuba of the Imo State University Owerri will deliver the 2014 Odenigbo lecture. The Most Rev. Anthony J.V. Obinna, Catholic Archbishop of Owerri and founder Odenigbo lecture series, announced the choice of Prof. Nwajiuba at Assumpta Cathedral Owerri. According to the prelate, Prof. Nwajiuba will speak on: Ochichi Oma: Olileanya Ohaneze (Good Governance: Expectation of the public). This year’s lecture, delivered by Prof. Pita Ejiofo, former Vice-Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State was preceded by a concelebrated Pontifical Mass.  It was presided over by Archbishop Obinna while Rev. Fr. Dr. Innocent Maduakolam Osuagwu delivered the homily.  (Details in our next edition).   Neglect of Igbo Language On those responsible for the present…

Trees of Life and Trees of Death (2)

Solving the Problem Dead men don’t bite, as an English saying goes.  In the same vein, a tree already lying on the ground cannot collapse on anyone or destroy a building.  It should be regarded as a golden rule that any tree (ritual or not) which has the potential of growing so tall that its fall can constitute serious danger to life and property must be regarded as “an accident just waiting to happen” and must be either felled or drastically pruned.  Unfortunately, the base of large trees is often a shaded and comfortable site for usual markets, community gatherings, and fetish shrines.  Within a few years of commencement of such uses, permanent residential and…