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1st Sunday of Advent is a remarkable day in our lives today and significantly finding our selves in the military barracks, where the Gospel of the day talks about been vigilant. A call to every humanity to be vigilant.

The Bishop in his homily said "Nigeria is a country where everyone has freedom to practice his or her religion but only in Nigeria again you are deprived of place of worship in a Federal institution". He thank Brig. Gen. OM Bello for the love and understanding he has for the church.

Thirty-Seven men, many of them married, were commissioned as Catechists at the Catechetical Training Centre, Malumfashi, Katsina State, Northwest Nigeria.

The Centre is owned by the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Northwest Nigeria. It admits and trains Catechists as first agents of evangelization. The candidates are drawn from different Catholic Dioceses in the country.

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Northwest Nigeria Most Reverend Matthew Hassan Kukah has admitted 3 youngmen into the order of priesthood for the Diocese.

The ordination took place at Malumfashi, the heartland of the marginalized maguzawa ethnic group in Katsina state, with predominantly muslim population. The Maguzawa are majority Christians.

The 3 new priests are themselves of the Maguzawa ethnic group. The ordination has now raised the number of Maguzawa priests to about 10.

Pope Francis leaves after celebrating a Mass on the feast of Christ the King in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Nov. 22. (CNS/Reuters pool/Vincenzo Pinto)

Rome — Pope Francis has strongly defended his record on naming women to positions of authority at the Vatican, saying in a new book that women do not need to be priests to serve as leaders in the global Catholic Church.

Fr. Blaise Agwon of Nigeria tells Aid to the Church in Need that the conflict is more about resources than religion.

Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) recently interviewed Father Blaise Agwon, director of the Center for Dialogue, Reconciliation and Peace in Jos, the capital of Plateau State in the central belt region of central Nigeria.The Nigerian priest is currently researching conflict and peace management.

Sermon on the Feast of Christ the King, Bishop Matthew Hassan KUKAH, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Nigeria (Long and enriching)

Speakers at New York symposium urge greater attention to persecuted in Africa.

An advocate for Christians in the Near East sees the same kind of patterns that threatened them now being repeated in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. 

NIGERIA AT 60: A CALL TO HOPE
Independence Message by Bishop Matthew Hassan KUKAH, Catholic Bishop, Diocese of Sokoto on October 1, 2020

The Catholic Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese, Reverend Bishop Mattew Kukah, has commended the people of Edo State for their conduct during the state’s governorship election on Saturday.

According to him, the people have left a legacy of efficiency which the entire country can emulate.

“The way they conducted themselves and I think in every sense of the word, they left us a legacy of efficiency,” he said on Tuesday during an interview on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily.

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Nigeria’s internal conflict is “a Molotov cocktail of anger, frustration, religious extremism, toxic politics, corruption and deep rut,” according to a leading bishop in the country.

Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto was speaking to Crux ahead of the country’s 60^th Independence Day, observed on Oct. 1.

A Statement by the Catholic Bishops of Kaduna Ecclesiastical Province on the Killings in our Province, Dated Tuesday 17th, 2020)

The newly completed Classroom block built by His Lordship Most Rev. Dr Matthew Hassan Kukah for  St. Patrick's schools Illela, Sokoto, Sokoto State.
The Principal of the School, Sr. Chilia, took the  Bishop round for inspection of the structure.

 A Priest of the catholic diocese of Sokoto yesterday celebrated a one year memorial mass in honour of three corp members who lost their lives  along Katsina/Malunfashi road in an auto crash on their way road to the celebration of his First Ordination Mass.

The late Mama Janet Hauwa Kukah, mother of Most Rev Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of Sokoto, was laid to rest today at the family house in Anchuna, Zangon Kataf Local Government, Kaduna State.
Bishop Kukah was joined by the Metropolitan of Kaduna Province, Archbishop Matthew Manoso Ndagoso, and Bishops Kundi of Kafanchan Diocese and George Dodo of Zaria Diocese.

14TH SUNDAY: Sunday sermon

COMETO ME ALL YOU WHO LABOUR

Bishop Matthew Hassan KUKAH

13^th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Carrying the Cross

         Molly Kilete, Abuja

Bishop M. H. KUKAH of the Diocese of Sokoto, through the diocesan Directorate of Justice, Development & Peace Commission (JDPC), supports the  beggers & less privileged communities in Sokoto so as to facilitate & encourage them in their praying & fasting in the month of Ramadan & to stay Covid-19 free by observing good hygiene & necessary precautions.  God bless Bishop Kukah, God bless the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto.

KIDNAP/MURDER OF A CATHOLIC SEMINARIAN                            
–  POLICE ARREST 3
-  IGP orders massive manhunt for fleeing suspects
 

Rev Fr Christopher Omotosho, the Director of Communications of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto has released information that the killers of Seminarian Michael NNADI have been apprehended by men of the Nigerian Police Force.

On the 31^st of March, 2020 His Lordship Most Rev. Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah ordained three Deacons.

The outbreak of COVID-19 has been a dangerous yet revelatory moment in Nigeria.  It is dangerous because this deadly pandemic has infected over a million and killed thousands of citizens of our planet.

Catholics yesterday in Sokoto led by His Lordship Most Rev Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah marched over 3 kilometers on a prayer procession in Black attires mourning the incessant killings of their fellow country men and women.

It was solemn and humbling for Raphael Nnadi, twin brother of Michael Nnadi, the Philosophy Student kidnapped alongside three others but murdered alone.