NewStats: 3,263,631 , 8,180,852 topics. Date: Friday, 06 June 2025 at 11:25 PM 1r1d

Long overdue

1Alex:
not the third but fourth. Iyienu Hospital ogidi is now Paul University teaching hospital

Yes you are right, I totally forgot

Praxis758:
Named after the father of Christianity in the eastern land.

Father Shanahan did a great exploit in the East.

The father of Christianity in the East is Bishop Ajayi Crowther of the Anglican Communion. If you want to defend the Catholic for immortalising one of those who came after the first Christian missionary work led by a Yoruba man, Bishop Ajayi Crowther, do so but don't corrupt the true of history and the place of Bishop Ajayi Crowther who brought christianity to Igboland.
Hopefully someday, a grateful generation of Igbo will one day give Bishop Ajayi Crowther his rightful place in Igboland.

aribisala0:
University?
Onitsha?
What for?

To produce certificates.

aribisala0:
University?
Onitsha?
What for?

As old as you are, you can never have sense

NorthernAgender:
This structures look very substandard and not well structured seems they are managing the land...I'm also wondering what those women in uniform are doing there.

Bro, let us always praise and encourage our 'developer' brothers over revelations like this .

I personally don't mind if all SE States become more developed than Abuja and Lagos. Hopefully Igbos will then stay there and stop trooping to the SW in the thousands daily.

It really is deplorable that up to 15 million Igbos reside permanently outside the SE. That is not and can never be a good template for the even development of all Nigeria.

All Nigerians should stay in their region and develop it optimally.

@OP.

Una do well. Please keep it up and even redouble your efforts.

Chimarto:
My problem is that is not for the poor.

There are things like scholarships and grants.

Universities are expensive..and if this is a private university, the government won't be giving them any money, it has to come from the fees.

The fees will be more than most private universities, so why rejoicing when you know clearly your children can not go there

Chimarto:
My problem is that is not for the poor.

Private Universities are never for the poor

aribisala0:
University?
Onitsha?
What for?

Would you rather they build a church?

FreeStuffsNG:
The father of Christianity in the East is Bishop Ajayi Crowther of the Anglican Communion. If you want to defend the Catholic for immortalising one of those who came after the first Christian missionary work led by a Yoruba man, Bishop Ajayi Crowther, do so but don't corrupt the true of history and the place of Bishop Ajayi Crowther who brought christianity to Igboland.
Hopefully someday, a grateful generation of Igbo will one day give Bishop Ajayi Crowther his rightful place in Igboland.

Ajayi Crowther came and stayed less than a week in Onitsha, the missionaries, like Bishop Shanahan, came and stayed years

kettykin:
Thriving in the face of adversity , isolation. Marginalization, economic downturn , financial crisis. it seems God has a real soft spot for igbos.

Within a month I have randomly counted projects running into more than $10b in the south east

adversity, isolation, marginalisation are thihgs that make Igbo grow...the more they (Nigeria) do these to them the more the igbo do progress and show soft spot

NorthernAgender:
This structures look very substandard and not well structured seems they are managing the land...I'm also wondering what those women in uniform are doing there.

Everything substandard for that side

kenny714433:
I wish to meet who got the inspiration for the name Shanahan.

Upon all beautiful Catholic names, upon all the beautiful Igbo names, he came up with a name that sounds Congolese 😅

Well, I wish this could be a Nigerian version of Saint Louis University, US. That was my dream university years back but funds shattered that dream.

Bishop Shanahan was the first bishop of Onitsha.An Irish man

This indeed is a world class University...i trust the catholic church to come out good on this project.

gidgiddy:


Ajayi Crowther came and stayed less than a week in Onitsha, the missionaries, like Bishop Shanahan, came and stayed years

The first Christian missionaries in Igboland was Samuel Ajayi crowther and his men. For years, they were known as the only Christian missionaries that exist.

When shanahan visited Obi Akazue, the Onitsha king asked him the popular question "is the church two"? Before he could finish explanations, he asked him to meet crowther his colleague and sort out issues with him.

The land where Catholic presence in Onitsha sits today was given them FREELY by the CMS.

Coupled with the introduction of the central Igbo dialect, August meeting etc, the CMS fostered unity in Igboland. Unfortunately, the Irish missionaries didn't toe that line. They literarily imported the Irish civil war into Igboland, causing the denominational frictions which Igbos now fight against.

The mission universities springing up in the East are most welcome.

FreeStuffsNG:
The father of Christianity in the East is Bishop Ajayi Crowther of the Anglican Communion. If you want to defend the Catholic for immortalising one of those who came after the first Christian missionary work led by a Yoruba man, Bishop Ajayi Crowther, do so but don't corrupt the true of history and the place of Bishop Ajayi Crowther who brought christianity to Igboland.
Hopefully someday, a grateful generation of Igbo will one day give Bishop Ajayi Crowther his rightful place in Igboland.

stf up

Ajayi did nothing

Baba didn't spend a month in Onitsha even a week sef him no complete



he wrote a book in ìgbo language yen yen! where's the copy of the book?

I have checked Lagos museum I didn't see it I saw his other books even to his sermons . the notes he used in making sermons I saw all that In the museum

why couldn't we find a copy of his ground breaking work on igbo language?

some of the lies and propaganda Yorubas sell to Thier children

Noneroone:
The first Christian missionaries in Igboland was Samuel Ajayi crowther and his men. For years, they were known as the only Christian missionaries that exist.

When shanahan visited Obi Akazue, the Onitsha king asked him the popular question "is the church two"? Before he could finish explanations, he asked him to meet crowther his colleague and sort out issues with him.

The land where Catholic presence in Onitsha sits today was given the FREELY by the CMS.

Coupled with the introduction of the central Igbo, August meeting etc, the CMS fostered unity in Igboland. Unfortunately, the Irish missionaries didn't toe that line. They literarily imported the Irish civil war into Igboland, causing the denominational frictions which Igbos now fight against.

The mission universities springing up in the East are most welcome.

SE was first Catholic before CMS people came

Ajayi didn't spend a month in SE

rubbish lies you people tell yourselves!

Thormentor:


SE was first Catholic before CMS people came

Ajayi didn't spend a month in SE

rubbish lies you people tell yourselves!

ok bye

1Alex:
not the third but fourth. Iyienu Hospital ogidi is now Paul University teaching hospital

I guess is University of the Niger teaching hospital not Paul university, Anglican diocese of the Niger is also built another University in Umunya name University of the Niger

FreeStuffsNG:
The father of Christianity in the East is Bishop Ajayi Crowther of the Anglican Communion. If you want to defend the Catholic for immortalising one of those who came after the first Christian missionary work led by a Yoruba man, Bishop Ajayi Crowther, do so but don't corrupt the true of history and the place of Bishop Ajayi Crowther who brought christianity to Igboland.
Hopefully someday, a grateful generation of Igbo will one day give Bishop Ajayi Crowther his rightful place in Igboland.

Otondo keep fooling yourself on nairaland

1Alex:
not the third but fourth. Iyienu Hospital ogidi is now Paul University teaching hospital

See it here the fourth teaching hospital, University of the Niger teaching hospital Iyi-Enu Ogidi, Anambra state

FreeStuffsNG:
The father of Christianity in the East is Bishop Ajayi Crowther of the Anglican Communion. If you want to defend the Catholic for immortalising one of those who came after the first Christian missionary work led by a Yoruba man, Bishop Ajayi Crowther, do so but don't corrupt the true of history and the place of Bishop Ajayi Crowther who brought christianity to Igboland.
Hopefully someday, a grateful generation of Igbo will one day give Bishop Ajayi Crowther his rightful place in Igboland.

My exact thoughts. The Catholic mission arrived the southeast a long thirty years after the Anglican CMS, and the magnanimity of the CMS towards the catholic missionaries was a factor in the fast spread of the catholic faith in the east.

Those who want to twist history should go on, but they wont be able to negate the truth.

Noneroone:
The first Christian missionaries in Igboland was Samuel Ajayi crowther and his men. For years, they were known as the only Christian missionaries that exist.

When shanahan visited Obi Akazue, the Onitsha king asked him the popular question "is the church two"? Before he could finish explanations, he asked him to meet crowther his colleague and sort out issues with him.

The land where Catholic presence in Onitsha sits today was given the FREELY by the CMS.

Coupled with the introduction of the central Igbo, August meeting etc, the CMS fostered unity in Igboland. Unfortunately, the Irish missionaries didn't toe that line. They literarily imported the Irish civil war into Igboland, causing the denominational frictions which Igbos now fight against.

The mission universities springing up in the East are most welcome.

Thanks for touching on that denominational war that is still being perpetrated by the ruling class in anambra state today.

FreeStuffsNG:
The father of Christianity in the East is Bishop Ajayi Crowther of the Anglican Communion. If you want to defend the Catholic for immortalising one of those who came after the first Christian missionary work led by a Yoruba man, Bishop Ajayi Crowther, do so but don't corrupt the true of history and the place of Bishop Ajayi Crowther who brought christianity to Igboland.
Hopefully someday, a grateful generation of Igbo will one day give Bishop Ajayi Crowther his rightful place in Igboland.

You are a clown

Bishop J. Shanahan


Joseph Shanahan
He was given a “second burial”. The solemn but joyous ceremony was performed only for the paramount chief , to ensure that his great spirit would always remain with the people, protecting them and guiding them as he had done in Life.

Bishop Shanahan (1871 – 1943) of Southern Nigeria was the only non-Igbo to be afforded this honour. His bones were disinterred and in 1955 were Laid to rest in Onitsha cathedral in the heart of the land of the lgbos. Who was this man so beloved and honoured?

Joseph Shanahan was born, the third of ten children of a poor farm labourer in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. His uncle, Pat Walsh, who lived with the Shanahans, left the home in Gortnalaura in 1875 to the congregation of the Holy Ghost, now called the Spiritans. It was an old French religious order recently given a new lease of life by the dynamic Francis Libermann, a convert from Judaism whose special ambition was to bring the good news of Christ to the peoples of Equatorial Africa.

In 1886 young Joe followed his uncle to where he ed the Spiritans and began his studies for the priesthood. He was ordained a priest in 1900. In October 1902 his life’s dream was fulfilled. He was on a boat bound for Nigeria. Thirty five days later he arrived in Onitsha, a name that would be forever linked with his own.

Shanahan ed a group of French Spiritans who had arrived in Eastern Nigeria seventeen years previously.

From the very beginning Shanahan made a big impact. He was big, strong, handsome. He was friendly, kind, energetic. The lgbo people couldn’t but ire and love him. And he served them with every ounce of his being until he returned in 1932. He had served for thirty years, twenty five as leader of the mission. Few Europeans could survive more than a decade in Nigeria where conditions were very primitive at that time.

His life is one of the great success stories of missionary history. He was a truly charismatic figure, a man of exceptional courage and vision. He travelled the country on foot, by bicycle, by canoe. He walked boldly in areas where no white man had set foot before. He saw the importance of education and built up a huge network of schools.

He recruited missionary priests, brothers, sisters and lay persons for Southern Nigeria. He founded one religious order and was the inspiration behind the setting up of five others.

As is the case for all saints, he suffered greatly. He was rejected by his mission and forced into an unwanted and early retirement. He was rejected by the missionary order of sisters he founded in lreland He spent his final years in exile from his beloved Igbos, years of frustration false accusations and loneliness.

Today he is seen as a luminary of the Church and of the Spiritans, a wonderful model for all who are called to be missionaries.

aribisala0:
University?
Onitsha?
What for?

fr cooking of rice

Anambra1stSonTV:


Bishop J. Shanahan


Joseph Shanahan
He was given a “second burial”. The solemn but joyous ceremony was performed only for the paramount chief , to ensure that his great spirit would always remain with the people, protecting them and guiding them as he had done in Life.

Bishop Shanahan (1871 – 1943) of Southern Nigeria was the only non-Igbo to be afforded this honour. His bones were disinterred and in 1955 were Laid to rest in Onitsha cathedral in the heart of the land of the lgbos. Who was this man so beloved and honoured?

Joseph Shanahan was born, the third of ten children of a poor farm labourer in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. His uncle, Pat Walsh, who lived with the Shanahans, left the home in Gortnalaura in 1875 to the congregation of the Holy Ghost, now called the Spiritans. It was an old French religious order recently given a new lease of life by the dynamic Francis Libermann, a convert from Judaism whose special ambition was to bring the good news of Christ to the peoples of Equatorial Africa.

In 1886 young Joe followed his uncle to where he ed the Spiritans and began his studies for the priesthood. He was ordained a priest in 1900. In October 1902 his life’s dream was fulfilled. He was on a boat bound for Nigeria. Thirty five days later he arrived in Onitsha, a name that would be forever linked with his own.

Shanahan ed a group of French Spiritans who had arrived in Eastern Nigeria seventeen years previously.

From the very beginning Shanahan made a big impact. He was big, strong, handsome. He was friendly, kind, energetic. The lgbo people couldn’t but ire and love him. And he served them with every ounce of his being until he returned in 1932. He had served for thirty years, twenty five as leader of the mission. Few Europeans could survive more than a decade in Nigeria where conditions were very primitive at that time.

His life is one of the great success stories of missionary history. He was a truly charismatic figure, a man of exceptional courage and vision. He travelled the country on foot, by bicycle, by canoe. He walked boldly in areas where no white man had set foot before. He saw the importance of education and built up a huge network of schools.

He recruited missionary priests, brothers, sisters and lay persons for Southern Nigeria. He founded one religious order and was the inspiration behind the setting up of five others.

As is the case for all saints, he suffered greatly. He was rejected by his mission and forced into an unwanted and early retirement. He was rejected by the missionary order of sisters he founded in lreland He spent his final years in exile from his beloved Igbos, years of frustration false accusations and loneliness.

Today he is seen as a luminary of the Church and of the Spiritans, a wonderful model for all who are called to be missionaries.

Quite inspiring. His massive educational strategies lifted the Igbos alot...

Anambra1stSonTV:

See it here the fourth teaching hospital, University of the Niger teaching hospital Iyi-Enu Ogidi, Anambra state

OK I made a mistake

Anambra1stSonTV:
St Charles Borromeo hospital will now be Shanahan University teaching hospital Onitsha making it the fourth teaching hospital in Anambra state

Awesome. I was born right at this hospital many moons ago. They have continued to provide good medical care to the people of the state. Thats consistency.

I m not particularly churchy but the church has done well in this.

commendable I can see my mom there flaunting her CWO dressNdị Nne mama! commendable I can see my mom there flaunting her CWO dressNdị Nne mama! ...

kenny714433:
I wish to meet who got the inspiration for the name Shanahan.

Upon all beautiful Catholic names, upon all the beautiful Igbo names, he came up with a name that sounds Congolese 😅

Well, I wish this could be a Nigerian version of Saint Louis University, US. That was my dream university years back but funds shattered that dream.

Bishop Shanahan is a big name in the Catholic Cycle.