By Yinka Odumakin Dear Bishop, WHEN I met you in Calabar three years ago at Southern Senators Retreat, you were still as fresh as the very Father Kukah I met in Lagos in the dangerous days of Sani Abacha when fear reigned over the land. Those were the years the catholic church whose Secretariat you […]

By Reverend Dr. Gideon Para-Mallam, a Global Mission Leader, Social Justice and Peace Advocate, President & CEO, The Para-Mallam Peace Foundation FOR more than 44 years that Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah has served as a Priest, till date, this would be the first time his Christmas homily has been so widely read and talked about […]

By Sherifat Lawal That the Christmas message of Most Rev Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto generated a lot of reactions is not unexpected. However, this particular one not only raised dust in high places, the dust took on legal and treasonous proportions, with accusations and counter-accusations flying. Now, what did […]

…Says nepotism under Buhari, topnotch By Ibrahim HassanWuyo Rev. Yunusa Sabo Nmadu Jnr, the General Secretary of Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), has said on Tuesday that there was nothing new about what Bishop Kukah had said and warned against any attempt to harm him. According to Rev. Nmadu, “I have read so many reactions […]

By Ibrahim HassanWuyo Rev. Yunusa Sabo Nmadu Jnr, the General Secretary of Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA),has said on Tuesday that there was nothing new about what Bishop Kukah had said and warned against any attempt to harm him. According to Rev.Nmadu, “I have read so many reactions to the Christmas message of our respected […]

By Emmanuel Okogba Senator Shehu Sani has called on Northern Youths to channel their energy towards the fight against banditry and leave Bishop Matthew Kukah alone. Shehu made the call in reaction to reports where some Northern Youths and groups asked for the arrest and prosecution of the Bishop over comments he made about the […]

Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN have risen in defence of Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, saying he never in his Christmas message made any expression suggesting an affront to Islam or a call for a coup.

The Federal Government says it is graceless and impious for any religious leader to use the period of Christmas, which is a season of peace, to stoke the embers of hatred, sectarian strife and national disunity. In a statement issued on Saturday in Lagos, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, warned religious leaders that resorting […]

…Knocks FG for mounting separatist agitations …Says anti-graft war, a joke …Adds, failure in political leadership tempting military comeback ‌By Luminous Jannamike Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Kukah, says Nigeria is gradually drifting towards total implosion, saying the country’s internal crisis has become a molotov cocktail that urgently needs to be stopped […]

After reading Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah’s homily for ‘Saint’ Michael Nnadi who was canonized by men of violence as Christ was canonized, I titled the book (yes, it is more than a book) “The victory of the dead over the killers”.

For A Tormented Nation and A Besieged Faith is the title of a homily by Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah at Good Shepherd Seminary, Kaduna, on Tuesday, during the funeral mass of a seminarian, Michael Nnamdi, who was murdered by kidnappers. It is reproduced here in full.

The Federal Government has advised Bishop Matthew Kukah to use his high ecclesiastical office to work for religious harmony in Nigeria, rather than indulge in actions that are capable of dividing the country along religious lines.

OWERRI—The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, has described the Nigerian government as “Islamic fundamentalists without bombs.”

The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, has called on the President, Muhammadu Buhari and the senate president to look into the huge salaries of members of NASS to enable creation of more jobs for the teeming youths in Nigeria.

Bishop Mathew Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, has paid a condolence visit to the NYSC Coordinator in Katsina State, Alhaji Ahidjo Yahaya, following the death of three corps members in a motor accident. A statement by Mr Alex Obemeata, Public Relations Officer of the NYSC in the state, said that Kukah was accompanied […]