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The Hope Waddell Training Institution (HOWAD) is a school in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. It founded by missionaries from the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1895. It is named after the Reverend Hope Masterton Waddell .
Niels Høegh Brønnum (January 5, 1882 – 1966) [1] was a Danish missionary and physician who served in Northern Nigeria from 1913 to 1950. He is considered instrumental in establishing the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria, a church that later transitioned to having councils run by Nigerian elected councilmen and pastors.
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The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria decided to establish the National Missionary Seminary of St Paul, founded by Dominic Cardinal Ekandem, who had first proposed it in 1950, at its meeting in Kaduna in September 1976. Pope Paul VI in 1969 had called for Africans to be missionaries to themselves in Kampala, Uganda. For the institution to ...
It has Bowen University, named in honor of Rev. Thomas Jefferson Bowen, the first American Baptist missionary to Nigeria from the Southern Baptist Convention. [9] Bowen University is located at Iwo in Osun State. Bowen University opened in 2002 as a residential institution with 500 students with a current enrollment of about 3,000 students, and ...
Following his return from Nigeria, Waddell established a missionary congregation and eventually retired to his home in Dublin. Days before Waddell's death on April 18, 1895, a school was founded in Duke Town, Nigeria and named the Hope Waddell Institute (later known as the Hope Waddell Training Institution) in honour of his work. It continues ...
Mary Slessor. Mary Mitchell Slessor was born on 2, December 1848 in Gilcomston, Aberdeen, Scotland, to a poor working-class family who could not afford proper education.She was the second of seven children of Robert and Mary Slessor.
Mission Africa (formerly known as the Qua Iboe Mission and subsequently the Qua Iboe Fellowship) is an interdenominational, evangelical, Christian mission organisation. When founded in 1887, by the Irish independent missionary Samuel Bill, the organisation ministered in Nigeria.