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Belonging
Helping Liberians feel connected to a wider community even while living away from Liberia.
Community Building
Building community. Strengthening our bonds.
OLICON brings Liberians living across Nigeria together through fellowship, mutual support, shared experiences, and collective participation — keeping belonging alive far from home.
What community means
Community is how our mission comes to life
“To promote the unity, solidarity and cohesion of Liberians living within the borders of Nigeria.”
OLICON’s community-building work grows from that purpose. Unity, solidarity, and cohesion are not only ideals — they are practiced through gatherings, everyday support, chapter life, and the relationships Liberians build with one another across Nigeria.
This page shows how that purpose becomes human: people meeting, helping, celebrating, serving, and remaining connected in a land away from home.
The community we build
What OLICON seeks to create
Across chapters, regions, and national gatherings, OLICON works toward a community where Liberians can belong, support one another, and keep their heritage alive.
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Fellowship
Creating opportunities for people to meet, interact, celebrate, and keep the bond of fellowship alive.
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Unity
Connecting Liberians across locations, backgrounds, chapters, and communities into one shared fellowship.
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Mutual support
Encouraging members to help one another during difficult seasons and important moments.
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Identity
Maintaining Liberian heritage and cultural identity while living in Nigeria.
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Participation
Creating room for members to contribute — through meetings, gatherings, service, and community life.
From individuals to community
How belonging grows
OLICON’s strength comes from individual people becoming part of something larger — through connection, fellowship, and shared responsibility.
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Individual
A Liberian living in Nigeria, far from home.
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Connection
Meeting others who share heritage, culture, and experience.
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Fellowship
Gathering, celebrating, and supporting one another.
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Community
Belonging to chapters, regions, and a national fellowship.
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Collective strength
Moving forward together through shared responsibility.
Bringing Liberians together
Different locations. One community.
The 2026 convention materials recall that Liberians were scattered across Nigeria in different groups — and that uniting those communities became the challenge that led to OLICON. Today, that work continues through chapters, regional coordination, and national gatherings.
State chapters
Local leadership and chapter life help Liberians organize, meet, and strengthen bonds where they live.
Four regions
OLICON’s jurisdiction covers Nigeria through Eastern, Western, Northern, and South-South regions — with regional coordinators supporting chapter life.
National gatherings
Conventions bring members from across the country together for fellowship, reports, culture, learning, and shared direction.
Community gatherings
Where relationships are renewed
Gatherings are more than dates on a calendar. They create room for Liberians to meet, build bridges, make friends, collaborate, celebrate heritage, and strengthen the fellowship that sustains community life.
National conventions
National conventions gather members for fellowship, cultural performance, educative sessions, reports, and celebration — including the 9th Annual National Convention and 10th Anniversary in Abuja.
Chapter life
State chapters create local spaces for meetings, activities, and belonging — including chapter leadership that helps Liberians stay connected where they live.
Community celebrations
Community recollection includes gatherings and celebrations that kept Liberians connected long before — and after — OLICON’s formal establishment.
Supporting one another
Community shows up when it matters
The source materials include personal accounts of Liberians who supported others through hardship, displacement, conflict, and everyday need. These are not presented as a formal program list — they are evidence of lived solidarity.
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Homes opened in times of need
Community leaders describe opening their homes to people who needed temporary accommodation, care, and a place to land.
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Practical help in hard seasons
Accounts include providing transportation, offering support during difficult times, and standing with members facing hardship or unfair treatment.
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Advocacy & mediation
Leaders helped compatriots rebuild lives, advocated with employers, mentored others, and worked to resolve disputes that threatened unity.
“Let us remain a community that listens, cares, supports, and uplifts one another.”
High Chief Mrs. Tina Waripamoere Keme
Former Chairwoman, Rivers State
Community welfare
Care is part of community
Welfare appears in OLICON’s leadership structure and in the lived stories of members who responded when people were in need. Community building includes standing with one another through difficult periods, emergencies, personal challenges, and major life moments.
OLICON’s National Executive includes a Vice President for Gender and Social Welfare — a reminder that care for members is part of the organization’s leadership responsibility.
- Supporting members through difficult circumstances
- Responding when people face emergencies or hardship
- Standing with fellow Liberians far from home
- Strengthening solidarity through practical care
Culture & heritage
Community is also what we share
Community is not only where people live. It is also what they share — heritage, stories, celebration, and identity. At convention and in community life, Liberian culture finds expression through music, dance, drama, county exhibitions, fashion, food, and storytelling.
- Music
- Dance
- Drama
- County exhibitions
- Storytelling
- Fashion
- Food
Across generations
Passing community forward
OLICON’s gatherings make room for younger and older members of the community. Convention materials specially recognize children as “the future of our nations” and include children’s historical learning alongside cultural performance — signs of a fellowship that looks across generations.
Experience shared
Long-serving community leaders mentor, advise, and help strengthen unity among Liberians living in Nigeria.
Younger voices present
Children participate in convention life — including giving historical perspectives from home — keeping learning and heritage active.
Legacy carried forward
Anniversary messages call the community to carry OLICON’s legacy into the next decade with renewed purpose.
Leadership & service
A strong community is built by people who show up
Community building depends on people willing to serve — through leadership, welfare, advocacy, conflict resolution, organizing gatherings, and everyday care. The 2026 materials thank past and present leaders for steadfast leadership, sacrifice, and contributions toward sustaining OLICON.
Community stories
Stories that show what community looks like
These short accounts come from the 2026 convention souvenir. They are personal and verified — not invented case studies.
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Standing with fellow Liberians
High Chief Mrs. Tina Waripamoere Keme
Former Chairwoman, Rivers State
She describes embracing the Liberian community after arriving in Nigeria, participating in meetings and gatherings, and serving by opening her home, providing transportation, offering support in difficult times, and helping resolve conflicts.
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A home that became a refuge
Mother Danlette Bedell Okafor
Community leader, Enugu
During the Liberian Civil War, she assisted refugees who fled to Enugu — advocating for them, helping secure work, offering temporary accommodation, and helping establish the first organized Liberian community in Enugu in the early 1990s.
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An open door for those in transit
Apostle Jackson B. C. Tugbeh
Liberian missionary in Nigeria
In 1990, he founded Liberian Refugees Gospel Invasion, an organization that cared for the souls and welfare of Liberian refugees. He hosted and supported many in their studies, and his home is described as an open transit point for Liberians — “like a second Liberian embassy in Nigeria.”
Community building in action
The ways community takes shape
These are not a service catalog. They are the living patterns through which OLICON strengthens Liberian community life in Nigeria.
Fellowship
Creating spaces for Liberians to connect, celebrate, and keep belonging alive.
Gatherings
Bringing members together through chapter life, regional connection, and national conventions.
Support
Helping members through difficult circumstances with presence, care, and advocacy.
Culture
Preserving and celebrating Liberian identity and heritage while living in Nigeria.
Participation
Encouraging members to contribute to meetings, gatherings, service, and community life.
Connection
Strengthening relationships across Liberian communities scattered throughout Nigeria.
Mission & community
Turning our mission into community
Community building is one of the practical ways OLICON pursues its commitment to unity, solidarity, and cohesion — translating purpose into relationships, care, and shared life.
Community & events
Events that build belonging
Events create opportunities for fellowship, connection, celebration, cultural expression, relationship building, and participation. They are part of how the community renews itself.
Get involved
There is a place for you in this community
Community grows when people participate, serve, and support the fellowship that sustains Liberians across Nigeria.
Become a Member
Join the OLICON community and take part in fellowship across Nigeria.
Volunteer
Contribute time, skills, and energy where the community needs support.
Give
Support the work that sustains gathering, care, and community life.
A stronger community starts with all of us
Community is built through participation, support, fellowship, and shared responsibility — one relationship, one gathering, and one act of care at a time.