Catholic priest offers opening prayer at UNN conference on witchcraft

Innocent Enweh, a Catholic priest, said the opening prayer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) conference on witchcraft.

The two-day conference, being organised by Professor B.I.C Ijomah Centre for Policy and Research in UNN, began on Monday after intense opposition.

It started with reading of Bible passages alongside the prayer after which the choir of Christ Church chapel, a church located in the university, rendered the opening hymn.

VC ORDERED CHANGE OF TITLE, SHUNNED CONFERENCE

The conference tagged, “Witchcraft: Meaning, factors and practices”, was later renamed to “Dimensions of Human Behaviour”, following a directive from Charles Igwe, the university vice-chancellor (VC).

The school public relations officer, said the VC directed that the topic be changed “in response to the yearnings of the public that have erroneously misconstrued the ideas behind the choice of the topic.”

 Despite the change of name, the sub-themes of the conference were retained while the deliberations centred on witchcraft.

The vice-chancellor, who was billed to speak at the programme, failed to show up and did not send any representative.