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    One nation under God: achieving national integration through interfaith relations on the University of Abuja campus
    (2022-01) Oladosu, A. A.; Rafatu, A.; Uthman, O. I.; Oladosu-Uthman, H.; Oke, O. P.
    In Contemporary Nigeria, university campuses have become veritable centres not only for religious practices but equally for the recruitment of members by sects, cults, and denominations. Our research project was premised on the assumption that for the country to achieve sustainable integration, undergraduates in the nation's university System should be co-opted as advocates and stakeholders in the onerous task of peacebuilding and interfaith harmony. This paper reports on the initial survey carried out early in the year 2022 among university of Abuja undergraduates (Christian and Muslims) in this regard. The paper used the descriptive research method. A carefully designed questionnaire was administered among five hundred and twenty-four (524) undergraduates from the University. Having deployed the Integrated Phenomenological Approach (IPA) to research, the paper found that respondents were all desirous of a peaceful interfaith space not only on their campus but across Nigeria. They opined that the introduction of a curriculum on interfaith dialogue and the formulation of a policy on religious practices in the Nigerian University System (NUS) would be a long way in entrenching peace among adherents of various religions and ultimately in promoting national integration.
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    The beingness of Ojo’Ochamachala and the existential proofs of god in Igala metaphysics
    (The Department of Philosophy Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko Ondo State, Nigeria, 2023-06) Gbadamosi, O. A.; Ojile, B. A.
    The subject matter of metaphysics revolves around different aspects of reality, including man, nature, the cosmos, human mind and God’s existence among others. The nature and reality of the Supreme being like other conjectural problems of metaphysics have polarized scholars as a major concern over the years. On the one hand, it is asserted that no rational account or argument for the existence of God should even be attempted because of the dearth of empirical proofs. On the other hand, others posit that thanks to their firsthand encounters with various manifestations of extraterrestrial life, there are valid ways to demonstrate the existence of God. This paper conceptually dwells on beingness of Ojo’Ochamachala, the Supreme Being in Igala land. It sets out to answer the following research questions; What is understood as the beingness of Ojo’Ochamachala in Igala land? How is the metaphysical existence of God seen in Igala traditional System? What can be characterized as beingness of the Supreme Being in the Igala context? What are expressions of interpretative divination of God in Igala metaphysics? These questions will be answered with the view to providing existential proofs of God in Igala metaphysics