The
Chancellor
The Chancellor of Madonna University provides visionary leadership rooted in faith, discipline, and service. Guided by strong moral principles and a commitment to excellence, the Chancellor plays a pivotal role in shaping the university's mission, preserving its values, and steering its growth as a center of academic distinction.
The Structural Background
He was born on May 20, 1947, at Nkanu West, Enugu State, Nigeria. There was something extraordinary about the preceding night especially with the appearance of a glow of light flashing across the sky (a comet). The elders believed it is a sign heralding the birth of a great man or the death of a great man. This is akin to the event of Jesus' nativity when the Magi were led to the newborn child by a star.
The next day (20th May 1947), Omeogo went into labour while processing palm nuts, and without prolonged labour, gave birth to a baby boy to the delight of all. They were still rejoicing when darkness suddenly descended on earth in the middle of the day in a total eclipse of the sun. There was utter perplexity and confusion all over. The people were relieved after the eclipse and all believed that even the sun bowed in reverence to the child with a golden heart.
The child was a real comfort especially to the mother who has suffered the pain of losing her previous children to the cold hands of death. He grew up under a charitable and peace-loving mother, Mama Omeogo; studied in America and majored in Philosophy with his PhD in Metaphysics (1984).
Impact / Works
A lifetime of service, scholarship, and compassionate action — the enduring legacy and operational directives pioneered by Very Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Mathew Paul Edeh OFR.
Author of Igbo Metaphysics. Highlights include: Mma-di, Caring/charity, empowerment, and peace.
The after-effects of the Nigerian Civil War and the goal of EPTAISM (Edeh's Philosophy of thought and action).
Establishment of the Centre for Peace, Justice and Reconciliation in 1984.
Centre for the abjectly poor (Umuogbenye).
Catholic Prayer Ministry of the Holy Spirit and Medicare centers, spreading all over the world.
Establishment of various self-help projects, skill acquisition centers.
The founding of the National Pilgrimage Center, Elele.
Establishment of schools from Nursery to Tertiary institutions.
Scholarship programmes for less-privileged and handicapped students.
Employment and empowerment of the young people of this generation.
Specificity of his Private Institutions due to their background in his philosophy of Mma-di cum thought and action, all the way.
The success stories of Madonna University and other institutions of higher learning, including some spectacular and significant achievements of his schools in the National and International scenes.
Projection, popularization, and perpetuation of Prof. Edeh's peace-project through the four flourishing Religious Congregations, who will continue the programs that engender peace in the hearts of people.
Various awards and recognition's gave to him as a result of his labor to bring peace in the hearts of people and in the world.
The crown of Fr. Edeh' la contribution to world peace is the establishment of the Madonna International Charity Peace Award (MICPA) in 2006.
Edeh's Charity Peace Model.
Edeh as Servant Leader (Flipped Pyramid Structure).
Development BenchmarksMillennium Development Goals, Edeh as Pacesetter
Eradication of Extreme Poverty and Hunger
Women/Youth Empowerment
Health care delivery and capacity building
Founding of Madonna International Charity Peace Award
The Madonna International Charity Peace Award (MICPA) was founded by Very Rev. Fr. Prof Emmanuel Edeh. The award institution was inaugurated on 19th November 2006 during Madonna International Convention held in Madonna University Elele Campus.
The inauguration of this institution is one of unflinching efforts to encourage the perpetuation of Mama Omeogo charity through a practical and effective charity which have brought peace to millions of suffering people of God all over the world. So, the inauguration of MICPA has a motivational undertone for the charitable people not to relent but to do more.
The Peace Award International Institution has a decision-making body with Rev. Fr. Prof Edeh as the head. They decide and nominate awardees and their terms of reference among other things include the strategic framework for validation.
It took the decision-making body three good years of brain-storming to come up with effective, efficient and well-articulated criteria for the award presentation. The presentation of the first formal charity peace award was done on 9th January 2009 at Elele Campus of Madonna University during the first Theological Convention jointly organized in preparation for the second African Synod of Bishops.
Terms of Reference & Criteria
"The Chancellor of Madonna University provides principled leadership anchored in faith and service. Through vision and moral guidance, the Chancellor upholds the university's values while fostering academic excellence and purposeful growth."
Madonna University — The Chancellor Guidance Statement
Award Recipients
Since its inception, the Madonna International Charity Peace Award has been globally distributed to the following deserving individuals who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to humanity:
Chris Mary Maduka, the director Omeogo Charity Home Makurdi in Benue State who is deeply committed to gathering and looking after children abandoned in Makurdi Barracks by soldiers. Award: $15,000.
Most Rev. Rene Maria Ehouzou, the Bishop of Port-Novo, Benin Republic who cares for the destitute and Homeless in Benin Republic. Award: $15,000.
Archbishop Kelvin Felix, for the care of the suffering children and people of Haiti following the devastating incident of earthquake in the island in 2010. Award: $60,000.
Archbishop Fernando Cappalla, for the care of suffering children of Vietnam and some parts of the Philippines. Award: $40,000.
Chief Christopher Ezekagu, for the support of abjectly poor children to ensure access to education in 2011. Award: $20,000.
N'Jok Bibum Aloysious & Mrs. Magarete Anne Bibum, Cameroon, for the Deaf & Dumb School in 2011. Award: $20,000.
Madame Ngo Djob Marie Catherine, for the care of handicapped children in Bepanda Cameroon in 2011. Award: $20,000.
Leanghoin Hoy, a Buddhist from Cambodia for helpless children collected floating on the sea following the catastrophic flood in Cambodia in 2011. Award: $40,000.
Missionary Sisters of Charity, Calcutta, India, for the exceptional care provided to the poor. Award: $40,000 (2012).
Emmanuel Komoda, Yenegoa, Bayelsa State, for dedicated efforts to help the victims of flood in 2012. Award: $10,000.
Deaconess Deborah Aguty, Yenegoa, Bayelsa State, for dedicated efforts to help the victims of flood in 2012. Award: $10,000.
Family of Mr./Mrs. Emmanuel Obiukwu, for the loss of four children in the St. Theresa's Catholic Church bomb blast in Madalla, Niger State. Received ₦200,000, a Jeep, and full scholarships for remaining children (Maureen and Celestine) at Madonna University.
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