Ike, Obiora

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Reverend Monsignor Professor Dr. Obiora Ike, born in Gusau, Northern Nigeria is a Catholic priest, scholar, publisher and author. He is an acknowledged and sought after public speaker and bridge builder across religions, cultures and continents and is a human rights activist and development practitioner. Dr. Ike studied from 1975 to 1986 in Nigeria, Austria, Germany, France and UK, and holds degrees in philosophy, theology, economics, journalism and political science. He gained his doctorate degrees in Bonn, Germany, with a specialisation in Ethics. Professor Dr Ike has held several positions of service in Church, Society and State within Africa and in Europe. As founder of a number of educational and development organisations in Nigeria, including the Catholic Institute for Development Justice Peace and Caritas (CIDJAP), the Prisoners Legal Education and Assistance Scheme and the Small and Medium Scale Entrepreneurs Training Association. He has served as Chairman of the leading Umuchinemere Procredit Microfinance Bank Ltd. in Nigeria as well as chairperson of 27 organisations. Ike has held several academic posts as Professor at the Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Germany and at the Theological Faculty Tilburg, The Netherlands. Most recently he is Professor of Ethics and Intercultural Studies, Godfrey Okoye University, Nigeria and is Chairman of the Enugu State Government Economic Advisory Committee since 2015. From July 2016 until December 2022, he served as the Executive Director of Globethics in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Current debates about colonialism, slavery and black lives matter : ethical perspectives  on Christian missionary activities in Africa revisited
(Globethics.net, 2021) Ike, Obiora
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Why ethics remains the constant basic need for society : postscript
(2020) Ike, Obiora
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Value Meaning and Social Structure of Human Work
(Peter Lang, 1986) Ike, Obiora
"A fundamental dimension of man's life on earth is Human Work. It is the guiding thread which co-ordinates the multifarious activities of man in his attempt to build, renew and elevate the world. Central to the problem of work is man, for he is the being who works and who must be served by work and its products. The Encyclical Letter of John Paul II "Laborem Exercens" devotes adequate attention to the right understanding of the value meaning and social ordering of human work with a consideration of the problems and prospects of Work in a post-industrial society. What has "Laborem Exercens" to offer the African in post-colonial society?"
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Nihilism, ethics and the challenge of truth
(Globethics.net, 2020) Ike, Obiora
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Business Ethics as a field of Teaching, Training and Research in West Africa
(Medknow Publications And Media Pvt. Ltd, 2011) Ike, Obiora
Business Ethics as a field of teaching, training and research has appeared on the scene, as a panacea after several negative incidents of unethical global business practices, to offer sound principles and elucidate on the fact that the increase in corporate and individual corruption leads to a general decay of society. It is indeed in the interest of all to have a balanced society founded on business practices which are alongside other factors, ethical and therefore sustainable. This article is a modest attempt to provide the results of a survey conducted in the sub-Saharan region of West Africa, elucidating on attempts to gain a better understanding of the prevalence and scope of teaching, training, and research in the field of Business Ethics. The conclusion shows gaps in the study of Business Ethics within the region, but also portrays the available existence, practice and prevalence of Business Ethics within traditional African culture in West Africa.
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Integrating Ethics in Higher Education
(2017) Ike, Obiora
"At this Fourth Convocation of the Godfrey Okoye University, we are challenged as a university, also through the contributions of this Inaugural Lecture to reflect on one core dimension of the raisön d’être and essence of a university. As is widely accepted, education is both a means to an end and an end in itself. It is also an economic game changer and the key to life’s many opportunities in the modern world. Permit me at this stage to ask the question: Why a University? To this question, there are many answers and they vary, like the old Latin would say: “Tot homines quot sententiae” – “As there are many people, so are there many opinions”. For Humboldt, a German philosopher and diplomat, “a university has to do with the "whole" community of scholars and students engaged in a common search for truth. For Newman, it was about teaching universal knowledge. For Robbins, an economist commissioned by the government of the time in the United Kingdom to draw up a report on the future of higher education, universities had four objectives: “instruction in skills, promotion of the general powers of the mind, advancement of learning, and transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship” (The Guardian, London, October 2011).What do these concepts translate to? Essentially the fact that a University is serious business which must fulfil among other services to the community, a component of being a “Knowledge and Value Provider. It stands or fails in its ability or inability to deliver on this criteria” (Ike, O/Nnoli-Edozien, N; Development is About People, Business is About Ethics; CIDJAP, 2003, p.70). According to the Magna Charta Universitatum: “The University is an autonomous institution at the heart of societies differently organised because of geography and historical heritage. It produces, examines, appraises and hands down culture by research and teaching”. "
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Obiora Ike In His Own Words
(Printed by BuildingEwealth Info-Tech Limited, 2016) Ike, Obiora
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Freedom is more than a word
(Catholic Institute for Development Justice and Peace (CIDJAP), 1998) Ike, Obiora