ABOUT US
The Kukah Centre (TKC) is a Nigeria-based policy research institute, founded by Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto. The Centre has offices in Abuja and Kaduna and treats political leadership as a collaborative exercise that requires multiple governance structures at various levels – individuals, households, small businesses, the organized private sector, NGOs and government.
Interfaith dialogue is at the core of the Centre’s work and involves actively promoting conversations among Nigeria’s faith communities, as well as between leaders in faith and public policy. The Kukah Centre aspires to become Nigeria’s leading institution for the promotion of an active and engaged citizenry by providing support for inclusive dialogue and advocacy initiatives.
Faith
Inter-faith dialogue is at the core of the Centre’s work and involves actively promoting conversation among Nigeria’s faith communities as well as between leaders in faith and public policy.
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Leadership
We believe that to secure our future, we need to raise and train leaders for the next generation imbued with a sense of service based on shared values.
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Public Policy
The Centre’s good governance programs seek to foster an informed and active electorate that recognizes the urgent need to participate in shaping government policies.
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RECENT PROJECTS
Some of our events and activities are presented in photos and words.
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PUBLIC HEARING ON PROTECTION FROM INTERNET FALSEHOODS, MANIPULATIONS AND OTHER RELATED MATTERS – HELD ON 9TH MARCH, 2020 AT THE SENATE BUILDING, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. The Kukah Centre, represented by its National Assembly
Read More...The one-day discourse titled: Women, Peace and Social Cohesion in Sokoto State, sought to create a platform to encourage, strengthen and inspire women to utilise their innate abilities in promoting peaceful coexistence
Read More...Reasons Why Nigeria Has Failed – Bishop Matthew Kukah
A member of the National Peace Committee (NPC), Archbishop Mathew Hassan Kukah alongside Governor Seriake Dickson, King Diete Spiff and other stakeholders have called on political parties to maintain peace during Saturday’s
Read More...On Thursday the 7th of November 2019 the Ohionyi of Ebira Land gave his opening remark at the NPC Dialogue with the stakeholders on peaceful conduct of the impending Governorship Election in
Read More...The National Peace Committee (NPC) members engaged with INEC officials on the 26th of September 2019 on how to strength the electoral processes of the country. The tirelessness efforts for a true
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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership., Nelson Mandela
The Almajiri is the poster child of the horrible and inhuman conditions of the northern child. It is a best kept secret that the region refuses to confront but it has now exposed its underbelly. Now, what next for the children of the north? ...What will they remember and how will they remember? Their fate and future are a dream deferred, a nightmare that will be ignited by the fire next time.www.catholicdiocese-sokoto.orgExcerpts from 2020 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: A Nation in Search of Vindication, 2020 © + Matthew Hassan Kukah
Every Religion has the seeds of its own redemption or destruction... The boundaries between faith and reason are delicate but they are fundamental to how society builds a moral code. Faith without reason breeds the fanatic, the demagogue who genuinely but wrongly believes that he has heard the voice of a god ordering him to kill another. Reason without faith produces the ideologues who will also kill because the ideology of the state orders him to do so. Societies can only survive when a Constitutional basis has been established to create a balance between both extremes and to place our common humanity at the centre of every pursuit.www.catholicdiocese-sokoto.orgExcerpts from the Homily at the Funeral Mass of Seminarian MichaelNnadi, on 11th February 2020 at Good Shepherd Seminary, Kaduna, 2020 © Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah
