Onuoha Sunday Ndukwo

Sunday Ndukwo Onuoha is the founder and president of Vision Africa International and the co-chair, Interfaith Dialogue Forum for Peace.

In 2003, he was consecrated bishop in the Nigerian Methodist Church, and appointed special assistant on privatization in Olusegun Obasanjo’s cabinet.

Sunday Onuoha was the gubernatorial candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Abia State during the 2023 General Elections. He was born in Item, Abia State, Nigeria, on March 22, 1964.

"Sunday" is a common English name among first-generation Christian households in Nigeria.

He joined the ministry at a young age in 1983 and was consecrated a Bishop of the Methodist Church Nigeria in 2006, having served as the first Bishop of Evangelism at the Lagos Headquarters for many years.

Due to financial difficulties, Onuoha couldn’t complete his high school education. Instead, he relocated to Aba, where he worked as a tailor and later studied for the Nigerian equivalent of a high school exam for college admission.

In 1983, he was admitted into the Methodist Church Nigeria ministry. He pursued studies at the Methodist Theological Institute in Sagamu, the Immanuel College of Theology in Ibadan, and the University of Ibadan to obtain a B.A.

Onuoha traveled to the United States in 1995 to pursue his Masters and Doctorate at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, Texas. His doctoral thesis was titled Vision Africa.

He served as a pastor in various congregations, a seminary professor, and a mission and outreach worker in Nigeria.

He also served as the first Chairman of the Youths for the Nigerian state of Abia.

In 2003, he was named special assistant on privatization to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo’s cabinet.

Onuoha was part of an evangelical group attending a camp gathering on May 25, 1978, where he witnessed Jesus’ suffering and cried out, ‘God did not abandon Jesus in the midst of his screams for help.’ At age 14, he resolved to spend his life sharing that love.

In 2006, he became bishop of the Methodist Church Nigeria, overseeing evangelism. In 2012, he was named World Methodist Evangelism’s regional secretary for West Africa.

Onuoha was president of the Nigerian Inter-Faith Action Association (NIFAA) in 2009.

He holds dual citizenship and dual residency in Nigeria and the United States.

He married Ugonna Osoka of Item in 1992, who works as a chaplain at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas. Ugonna and Onuoha have three children: Agnes, Jane, and Isaac.