A Catholic priest choosing to remain voluntarily in a hellhole like Nigeria for so long seems incomprehensible...until you realise he was a Catholic Priest AND the the Principal...of an All Boys School.

RIP Rev. Fr. J D O'Connell

Sleep Well My Priest And Principal

I Will Forever Be Grateful Of Knowing You.......

RIP PADRE! But whoever tells this OP that the priest was the longest serving principal is joking. Rev. Fr. Angus freazer served at mount saint Gabriel's secondary school Makurdi as principal for a period of 50 calendar years.

asuustrike2009:
Fmartin

RIP Principal of all principals. Your legacy lives on Sir.

adzer:
RIP PADRE! But whoever tells this OP that the priest was the longest serving principal is joking. Rev. Fr. Angus freazer served at mount saint Gabriel's secondary school Makurdi as principal for a period of 50 calendar years.

Father O'connel was a principal for 50 years too.

martineverest:
when missionary was still missionary, not the extortionists and thieves in missionary clothings we now have as.....




the difference between black and white is too huge


RIP daddy cornell, the greatest principal in Nigerian history, who served humanity....u remind me of great Susan Wenger of osun-oshogbo shrine

The difference between black and white is as wide and far like the north is far wide and far from the south.

It is not in the fame, power, wealth or geographical location but in reasoning.

Where the white think of the general good, black will think of personal good. That selfish nature is predominant in black and thats the whole truth.

hush15:


The difference between black and white is as wide and far like the north is far wide and far from the south.

It is not in the fame, power, wealth or geographical location but in reasoning.

Where the white think of the general good, black will think of personal good. That selfish nature is predominant in black and thats the whole truth.

ur last paragraph says it all

Rip Fr. O'Connell. I knew him in His. Exemplary man of God. Not this yahoo yahoo god of men we have here. That are practising an entirely different form of Christianity from what the missionaries that brought to Africa

Was opportune to serve as a corp member in GSS Minna where he was d principal. Good Man...RIP

When u see white missionary u see God because they live by example unlike ours.

Rest in peace Padre

He was Indeed a great priest and a teacher. I served him as an alter boy at St Michael's Catholic Cathedral Minna. He also thought me English Language in Government Secondary School Minna (GSS).
He was like a father to us all. May his soul rest in Perfect Peace.

You have fought the good fight. Rest in peace Father

evanso6226:


He died in the early hours of Wednesday, 14th, March, 2018. He was 85 years and was the longest serving school principal in Niger State and Nigeria before he retired and returned home late last year. .
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He had arrived Nigeria in 1967 as a missionary and first worked as a Catholic Priest in Calabar before he relocated to Niger State where he became the principal of Government Secondary School, Minna. At 84, Fr. O’Connell was still teaching.


source: http://www.clintgist.com/rev-fr-oconnell-longest-serving-principal-nigeria-dies-85/

RIP Father O'connell.... the Old active icon is gone! even at his old age he was very active. He takes no shit frm his student. he is a deciplinarian. Rest in Peace.

He was my principal...Rip father. class of 2001

The Principal of all Principle

I surely do remember the moments I had with him from meal after meal, ride after ride .....
He knows all his students by name
He is very humble , pays school fees for his students.
He is a definition of LOVE , PEACE and HUMILITY

Thank You O Connell

Glory to God that you are Alive and you shall live for ever and ever Amen.

RIP father. I remember him from my days in FGC Minna. He was always coming to minister during the YCS Sunday Mass.

God bless you Fr. Connell.
Rest In Peace Padre