About Us
The creation of this medium is in response to calls by Ndi Igbo from all walks of life for the establishment of a unique forum that would provide a channel where they can access invaluable information and get the opportunity to make necessary contributions towards the well being of Nigeria and Ndi Igbo in particular.
After reading my article, “Civil War, Time for Igbo Public Inquiry,” that appeared first in the Daily Sun newspaper of September 9, 2009. The article which generated interests saw a lot of Ndi Igbo calling for a medium with an appetite for Igbo affairs. Well, I have obliged them and the result is what can be seen, once you log into www.igbozuru.com .
Consequently, this forum is conceptualized mainly, as an interactive platform that dwells on Igbo affairs and to a lesser extent, other issues. Most importantly, the forum is going to run as an intellectual market place for discernible people to interact, generate ideas and products, that are expected to further lift humanity.
For this reason, this online forum, features four exclusive mediums that celebrate Igbo interests, namely: Igbo Market Days, About Ndi Igbo, Igbo Forum and Asụsụ Igbo/Ihe Oyiyi. Other mediums in this forum highlight other news contents that are of general interest. In all, Igbozuruoke Forum has at least six mediums through which it reaches out to the audience. So, whatever your beat is, the forum has the reach and attributes to appreciate it.
Most important, Igbozuruoke Forum, is established to be a facilitating platform on which selected arbitrators in Igbo customs, culture and traditions known as the CUSTODIANS, would function. These pundits who represent all segments of Igbo sub-cultural entities have been constituted to provide and promote accurate concepts and versions of Igbo rules, ethics and ethos.
Below are the mediums of this forum and their accompanying illustrations:
Today’s Igbo Market Days: As the most unique of this forum, this medium shows daily Igbo market days that can be scrolled forward or backward to review a market day against any date in the future or in the past. At the sidebar, this platform provides an interesting channel for the public, especially, Ndi Igbo, to know Igbo market days as they evolve. It is particularly important to note that, not only are Igbo market days indicated against the Gregorian calendar (the Western calendar we use), this platform further indicates the type of market days. In some parts of Igbo land, the market days are divided into big and small Igbo market days. In some places, certain (prominent) events can only take place on a particular big or small market days for it to be authentic and acceptable. In Ngor-Okpala, LGA of Imo State, for example, the final burial rites of a prominent traditionalist can only take place on Igbo big market days like Orie-Ukwu, Eke Ukwu, Nkwọ Ukwu, etc.
Upcoming Events: The Upcoming Events segment of this website is at the sidebar, directly under Today’s Igbo Market Days. It is a channel through which you can patronize us by paying a comparative sum that enables you to inform the world about your upcoming events and to let them see the events you are planning in advance. Similarly, the Events segment provides you the platform to pinpoint the location of such event and any further information that might be necessary.
(1) Igbo Forum: This medium, is created as a place where every Igbo, can reach the world and be heard. It treats all matters concerning the Igbo, besides their culture and traditions etc., that are the main concern of the two subsequent mediums.
(11) About Ndi Igbo: This is a medium that treats Igbo culture, Traditions and customs. Most contents in this segment are pay-to-read contents, that is, you have to subscribe vie an attached platform to each article to access the content.
(111) People & Society: This is a segment that deals with happenings and the dynamics that characterized everyday’s activities in a human society.
(1V) Current Affairs This medium, announces ‘”breaking news,” current stories, and other front-burner issues that people urgently need to get informed.
(111) Sports & Entertainment: This is a channel for sports and entertainment stories.
(1V) Asụsụ Igbo/Ihe Oyiyi: This is the last exclusive Igbo medium of this forum. At this forum, Ndi Igbo who are desirous to read in Igbo, see and watch Igbo symbols, images get the opportunity as articles, descriptions and presentations in this forum is only in Igbo language.
(1V) About Us: While About Us, under this platform highlights the profile of the publisher/editor and his team, Contact Us, provides the medium and its personnel’s contacts
THE PUBLISHER/EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
Mr. Ngozi Boniface Alanwoko, a native of Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State, is a graduate of Mass Communication, University of Lagos. He is also an ex-staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria, having voluntarily retired in 1994, after serving for 20 years.
After his disengagement from CBN, he got involved in some business activities and became the Chairman/CEO of Arris Commercial Enterprises Limited, a computer and allied entity. In 2010, he launched the Upcoming magazine, which he published and edited until it was put to bed for a restructuring to enhance its features under a new name: TOPISSUES.
Apart from being the publisher/editor-in-chief of Igbozuruoke Forum, Mr. Alanwoko is equally the Chairman/ CEO of Neatdeal Services Ltd., a reputable service company with far-reaching engagements.
E-mail: [email protected]
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