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 platform that would provide a channel where access to invaluable information and the opportunity to make necessary contributions towards the well being of Nigeria and Ndi Igbo in particular can be guaranteed.
After the spread of my article: “Civil War, Time for Igbo Public Inquiry,” which appeared first in the Daily Sun newspaper of September 9, 2009, was applauded, the interest it generated led to calls for a channel like this. Ndi Igbo felt a medium with an appetite for Igbo affairs was crucial. Well, I have obliged them and the result is what can be seen, once you log into www.igbozuru.com .
Consequently, this platform is conceptualized mainly, as an interactive forum 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 necessary to further lift humanity with Ndi Igbo as the focus.
For this reason, this online medium, features five exclusive forums that celebrate Igbo interests, namely: Igbo Market Days, About Ndi Igbo, Igbo Forum, About Igbo culture and Traditions and Asụsụ Igbo/Ihe Oyiyi. Other mediums on this medium highlight other news’ contents that are of general interest. In all, Igbozuruoke Media has at least six forums through which it reaches out to the audience. So, whatever your beat is, this medium has the reach and attributes to defend it.
Most important, Igbozuruoke Media, is established to be a facilitating platform on which Igbo issues, culture and traditions can be easily accessed, evaluated and appreciated. For this reason, selected arbitrators on Igbo customs, culture and traditions known as the Custodians, are earmarked to function as pundits who can evaluate, adjudicate and arrive at acceptable positions on cultural issues of most segments of Igbo sub-cultural entities.
Below are the forums of this platform and their accompanying illustrations:
Today’s Igbo Market Days: As the most unique feature of this forum, this medium shows daily Igbo market days that can be scrolled forward or backward for the viewing of a market day against a 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.
Events: The Events segment of this website is strategically linked to Today’s Igbo Market Days. This is deliberate as it allows events’ planners to key into the precise Igbo Market Days’ calendar, to capture traditional Igbo market days in which certain events are expected to take place in Igbo land. Furthermore, this segment is digitally configured to indicate dates, time, places and the status of any event according to the wish of each promoter. Consequently, it is a channel that affords you the opportunity to announce your intentions or events before they take place for a comparative fee.
About Igbo Culture & Traditions: This is a channel that highlights well-researched and essential subjects and cases in Igbo culture and traditions. The presentations on this channel are not only well-chosen and researched but humanized to make them pleasant for readers and to create knowledge on Igbo matters. To access articles on this channel, subscriptions become necessary for improvements and continuity.
(1) Igbo Forum: This channel is created as a place where any Igbo, can reach the world and be reached. It treats all matters concerning the Indi Igbo judiciously. Besides their culture and traditions, any matter that concerns the Igbo, is processed and presented to further enrich Igbo knowledge and to further improve their well being.
(11) About Ndi Igbo: This is a medium that generally treats Igbo culture and traditions.. Most contents in this segment are cases that may be contentious but presented for evaluation, and authentication and adoption. Thus, cases presented here have been investigated, evaluated and finally published with the conviction that justice has been done to such articles.
(111)) People & Society: This is a segment that deals with happenings in the society and the dynamics that characterized everyday’s activities in a human society. In this forum, some distinctive articles might be subject to subscription in order to access them.
(1V) Current Affairs This medium, announces current stories, and other front-burner issues that people urgently need for knowledge development and survival.
(V) Sports & Entertainment: This is a channel for sports and entertainment stories.
(V1) Asụsụ Igbo/Ihe Oyiyi: This is the last exclusive Igbo channel of this medium.. In this forum, Ndi Igbo who are desirous to read in Igbo, see and watch Igbo symbols and image,s get the opportunity, as articles, descriptions and presentations on this forum are mainly in Igbo language.
(V11) 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, is an indigene of Okpala Autonomous Community in Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State. He is a graduate of Mass Communication from the Department of Mass Communication Dept., University of Lagos. Equally, he is 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 meant to enhance its features under a new name: TOPISSUES.
Apart from being the publisher/editor-in-chief of Igbozuruoke Media, Mr. Alanwoko is equally the Chairman/ CEO of Neatdeal Services Ltd., a reputable service company with far-reaching engagements.
Our Staff Profile:
Boniface Alanwoko: Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
E-mail: [email protected]
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