PICTURES FROM THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA ANGLICAN COMMUNION, JOS DIOCESE WOMEN'S VALEDICTORY CONFERENCE AND ENROLMENT INTO MOTHERS UNION AND WOMEN'S GUILD

MRS NNABUGWU NGOZI ENROLS INTO THE MOTHERS UNION, CHURCH OF NIGERIA ANGLICAN COMMUNION JOS DIOCESE

 

Mrs Nnabugwu in a handshake with the Archbishop of Jos

 

 

Friday August 19th, 2023 goes into record for Mrs Nnabugwu Ngozi and Mrs Jineme Nkeiruka both of the St Piran Church on the Plateau and Mrs Okereke Florence Chinyere of St Michael's Anglican Church, Busa Buji who with other women enrolled into the Mothers Union, Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion, Jos Diocese on that day.

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PICTURES FROM THE FUNERAL AND BURIAL RITES OF BABA CHIBOK, HON Aimu Foni Ndiryizah (Zanna Gaddamma Damaturu) ASP Rtd

BABA CHIBOK, HON AIMU FONI NDIRYIZAH (ZANNA GADDAMMA DAMATURU) ASP Rtd, INTERRED TO MOTHER EARTH

The resting place of the icon, Baba Chibok

The remains of late Hon Aimu Foni Ndiryizah (Zanna Gaddamma Damaturu) ASP Rtd who slept in the Lord on Aug 3, 2023, have been interred in his country home at Chibok. The internment ceremony which took place on Aug 10, 2023, at his residence after funeral activities, saw the attendance of many people, including family members, other loved ones, the police command and politicians. Others include members of various churches, Grand children, in-laws and their friends who came in large number to pay their last respect to the departed icon, politician, and community leader. He lived for 76 years and was buried Aug 10, 2023.

TOWARDS INCREASED UNDERSTANDING OF THE ANCIENT HERITAGE ART OF RAINMAKING IN IGBO LAND: ISSUES THAT CALLS FOR ATTENTION

By EMMANUEL .U. WOOD (National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria)

Abstract

Rain is the source of life for everything here on planet earth. It’s importance in Igbo society can never be over emphasized, considering that the Igbo Society is agrarian in nature, where majority of the population are farmers, whose livelihood are dependent on water which is affected by the rain. There are rainy and dry seasons annually in Igbo land. These seasons determine the community life of the people. Thus the change of seasons is observed with ritual activities.

The gathering cloud

 

These rites are central or crucial in strengthening community consciousness and solidarity. A huge number of Igbo communities practice traditional rainmaking rituals. Although rainmaking processes, materials and participants vary, most communities believe that the tradition enables them to predict, cause, redirect or dispel rainfall. Although some scientists have dismissed the practice as irrelevant, irrational and ineffective, others propose its integration to conventional meteorological approaches.

AYARAYA JI AND ECHICHA: INTRODUCING THE TWO DELICACIES OF THE NSUKKA PEOPLE OF ENUGU STATE AND THROWING LIGHT ON THEIR PREPARATION

 

BY OBINNA EKE AND UGWOKE, JULIANA UCHENNA

(National Commission for Museums and Monuments)

INTRODUCTION:

Food is a substance consisting essentially of protein, carbohydrate, fats and other nutrients used in the body of an organism to sustain growth. Hoy-Rosas, Arrecis and Avila (2010) sees food culture as the practices, attitudes and beliefs as well as the networks and institutions surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of food. It incorporates the cultural heritage and ethnicity but is not limited to it.

Cultural or traditional foods are foods locally sourced and prepared, which represents the traditional beliefs and practices of a geographical region, religious bodies or cross cultural community (Family, 2000).

Nsukka people and their culture are seen portrayed in their identity through their local cuisines. Two of such cuisines are Ayaraya Ji and Echicha, some of the most prized cuisines of the Nsukka people of Enugu State. Ayaraya Ji and Echicha are healthy, full of flavour, and nourishing to the body. They are traditional delicacies of the people that have been passed and consumed from generation to generation (FAO, 2020). They are traditional in nature, have historic precedent in local, regional and national cuisines. 

Ayaraya ji (picture adapted from the internet)