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Monument to Mary Slessor, Steeple Church, Dundee. Mary Mitchell Slessor (2 December 1848 – 13 January 1915) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria.Once in Nigeria, Slessor learned Efik, one of the numerous local languages, then began teaching.
The school was more expensive than other missions, since it required machinery for industrial training, and by 1902 the mission was forced to accept government funding. [5] As the school became established, competition for places became intense since graduates were guaranteed employment by the government, the mission or other local businesses ...
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 ...
In 1991 the order participated with many other religious organisations in the establishment of the Kimmage Mission Institute (1991-2006) to combine their training efforts. The order now has novitiates in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Kenya. Over the years in Africa they set up over 200 elementary schools, 40 secondary schools and 32 hospitals. [9]
There was missionary activity in Egbe so many years ago particularly through Rev. Tommy Titcombe and his wife (a British-born Canadian Missionary), on behalf of the Serving In Mission (SIM) from the United States, Canada, and the UK, who served in Egbe and Yagba land from 1908 for more than a decade, this has left a positive impact on the people of Egbe, Yagba and Nigeria at large.
The Convention has 15 affiliated primary and secondary schools, gathered in the Directorate of Baptist Mission Schools. [8] 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 ...
Protestant missionaries in Nigeria (5 C, 9 P) R. Roman Catholic missionaries in Nigeria (22 P)
Much of northern Nigeria had no LDS Church presence and many areas in mid-Nigeria had only begun to have significant organizational presence of the church in the mid-2010s. By mid-2019 there were 58 stakes in Nigeria, with the 58th stake being the 3rd based in the capital city of Abuja.