Umueriland Today

THE MUCH HYPE OBUGAD IS NOTHING BUT A FALLACY AS WE HAVE HERE OBUGA AND THE FESTIVAL IT IS KNOWN FOR THE ARO FESTIVAL IN UMUERI The Aro festival also called the "Igu aro" is one of the most colorful and celebrated festival in Umueri . The Festival has a prime position in the life of the people due to economical importance attached to it . Because the Oracular and Prophetic utterance of the Priest depicts what would happened in a given year. This include the oracular utterances of the priest in regards on what to expect during the harvest season: Whether there will be "Ugani" (famine), Nsogbu (problem), Ogu (war), onwu (death) etc. it was a sort of annual prophecy or prediction on what would happen in the coming season. If the prophecy turns out to have positive effect, the people tend to work tiredlessly hard so as to reap the fruit of hard labour. But on contrary, they tend to be cautious during the planting season starting with the first moon of the new seas...

*All Progressives Congress National Working Committee inaugurates Anambra APC Primary Election  committee.* ... come with your originals says Chairman. On Tuesday, 22nd August 2017, the National Working Committee of All Progressives Congress set up the 5 man Committee that will conduct APC Primary Election in Anambra State. The committee was headed by Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State. The primary election which has 12 aspirants has been scheduled for Saturday, August 26. A separate appeal committee is to be led by Dr. Hassan Lawal. The APC National Organising Secretary of the Party, Senator Osita Izunaso, inaugurated the two committees yesterday at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. Fielding questions from journalists after the inauguration, Governor Shettima said He and the chairman of the appeal committee could not be bought by any of the aspirants. He said his committee was committed to the conduct of a free, fair and transparent primary election that wi...

*Press Release:- GULF Inaugurates a Committee to articulate a Comprehensive History of Umueri* Greater Umueri Liberation Forum (GULF) with this publication wishes to thank all those who have associated with the group since its inception in 2010. We equally wish to appreciate all the effort of all members of this group towards living to actualize our vision towards re-awaken our cultural consciousness and awareness. This mission has seen us made an inroad towards reclaiming our *lost glory as the ancestral home of Ndigbo*, which we have pursued vigorously as a group by hoisting of websites and blogs to drive home our points. The awareness stage culminated in our 2014 news publication in *Daily Vanguard* of September of that year, detailing the world that we have proof that our town is nexus of Igbo origin  . Before then, the onus of telling our story had lies on us as a result of absence of any recorded story or book on our oral tradition and history, hence most researchers mo...

BREAKING NEWS The weekly Federal Executive Council meeting will not hold today. This was made known by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, in the early hours of Wednesday. No reason was given for the cancelation. He, however, said President Muhammadu Buhari will receive the probe report on the allegations against the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke, at 12 noon. The probe panel was headed by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. It was set up to probe Lawal for his role in a some contracts on the clearing of grass in the North East by a company linked to him. Oke was probed for the role of the NIA in the huge funds found in a Lagos home in cash. The presentation of the probe report will hold at the office of the President in his residence at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

If you have a daughter make sure she READS THIS Please share with every youth you know,  please! My name is Chinwe. I am 26 years old. I never graduated from d university, simply bcoz I was stupid and careless. On my 24th birthday, I received a nice gift. It was a blackberry phone. I always wanted one. It was like a right of passage. My ex-boyfriend got it for me. He was a student like me, didn’t have a job, and I really never cared to ask as he could afford it. My concern at that point was 'yes I had finally arrived.' Other girls in my hostel had blackberries and I would always get pissed when I heard sounds of pings and messages coming into their phones at all hours and I would stare at my nokia phone and wish I could throw it away, but half bread they say is better than none. So I hoped and even fasted to get a blackberry phone. Looking back now, if I had the opportunity, I’d have a landline with no internet activity what so ever. Anyway I got the blackberry phone an...

Breaking News!!!! APC ZONES GUBER TICKET TO ANAMBRA NORTH. SENATOR NGIGE CONVEYS DECISION TO ASPIRANTS FROM THE NORTH. SOUTHERN ASPIRANTS KICK. The Leader of the All progressives congress in Anambra state and Minister of Labour and Employment Senator Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige yesterday unveiled the concensus project of the APC towards clinching the Anambra governorship seat during the November 18 election. A confident Dr Ngige broke the news to the three aspirants from Anambra north; Hon Dr Tony Nwoye, Chief Chike Obidigbo and Chief Paul Chukwuma. He said the National working Committee of the APC has resolved to zone the slot to Anambra north. He then urged the aspirants to convene at the Ogbunike home of a party stakeholder Engr Nelson Onubogu to discuss among themselves who will be projected to the party on 26th as a formidable opponent with a good track record and the capacity to unseat the incumbent governor Willie Obiano. Aspirants from the South are already kicking again...

Team of Igbo Researchers Confirms Umueri Town as the Ancestral Home Of Igbos A team of Researchers from Cornerstone University owerri, who are on fact finding mission has confirms Umueri community, formerly, formerly known as Umuleri in Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State, south east, Nigeria as the nexus of Igbo origin. The team led by Dr. Chinedu Ozims who stormed the ancient community on Saturday August 12, 2017 on second leg of their visit to the kingdom with a view of unlocking the secret of the origin of igbo people (tribe). Earlier, during the first visit, a fortnight ago  this group of researchers made up of Academicians, Theologians and Scholars led by Dr. Chinedu Ozims, after an extensive discussion with the people of the community on possible ways of assisting the team by furnishing them with accurate and unhindered truth about the origin of Igbo people were able convinced beyond all historical proof that Umueri holds the truth towards unlocking th...

APC Primaries and delegates evil oath taking. ...the leadership must investigate this. I read a news yesterday that some APC delegates were taken to one shrine abi juju to swear on oath that they must vote a particular aspirant. The name of the aspirant was not given but  according to Chief Damian Muo-Udevi from  Anambra West local govt council area of the state, he said some delegates were mandated to swear to an oath in a shrine. Muo-Udevi said, “They have been going round all the 21 councils of the state with bags of money since weekend, luring and manipulating delegates to come swear to a multiple deity that they would vote the man.” This juju oath taking takes my mind to 2003 era and the accusation then that some political rascals took Dr Chris Ngige to Okija where he was forced to swear to the deity to allow these rascals loot and defraud the state fund. But Ngige was smarter. He won his election and dared the devil. Ngige refused to allow them defraud the s...

Anambra West A forgotten Local Government Area Anambra West Local Government Area was created in December 1996 by the Government of Gen. Sani Abacha with the headquarters at Nzam. The local government is located at a peninsula bounded by Anambra River in the east, River Niger in the west and South while Kogi state at the northern side. The local government is inhabited by Igbo and Igala speaking tribes respectively. The local government has a large deposit of crude oil and natural gas as well as fertile land for Agriculture. The local government is tagged the food basket of Anambra State. The local government due to it's large population of little above 40,000 has been a beautiful bride to politicians who besiege her at election times to secure votes but abandon the area after they have won election. The local government in the past has produced several politicians such as past Deputy Governors,  Speaker of old Anambra State house of Assembly, house of Reps members,  feder...

Breaking News: Young Democratic Party zones its governorship ticket to Anambra North. ...Chinedu Idigo, sets to run under APGA. ...Stella Oduah picks PDP nomination form. ...Ken Emeakayi faction woos Ifeanyi Ubah. As November 18 governorship election primaries are closing in, the Young Democratic Party, YDP says it will obey the directive of the major stakeholders in the state which directed all political parties to nominate their candidates from Anambra North Senatorial Zone. Speaking to APGA Interactive Forum Media Group, the state chairman of YDP, Mazi Toochukwu Uyanwa said the party wants to win the November election and zoning to Anambra North is to ensure that his party obeys the directive from Ndi Igwe, ASATU, Anambra Union, Ohaneze Ndigbo etc. He maintained that no party can win election without the support of these leaders and stakeholders. Meanwhile, APGA Interactive Forum Media Group has gathered that an Aguleri born politician, Hon Chinedu Idigo has declared to...

I was going to cry when I read this speech from the prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, but at the end I say glory to God. Let's read together Mr. Nethanyahu said: Only 70 years ago! The Jews were taken to slaughter like sheep. > 60 years ago! > no country. No Army. Seven Arab countries declared war on the small Jewish state, only a few hours after its creation! > we were 650 Jews against the rest of the Arab world! NO IDF (Israel Defense Army). No powerful air force, only brave people with nowhere to go. > Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia > all attacked at the same time. > the country that the United Nations gave us was a 65 % desert. > the country is out of nowhere! > 35 years ago! We fought the three armies most > Powerful in the middle east, and we swept them in six days. We fought against various coalitions of Arab countries, which had modern armies and many Soviet weapons, and we have always be...

"Devil's" goes to church: The Ozubulu massacre, Umu-Eri case study. Job1 vs 6-7. Reads: One day the sons of God came to worship God, and Devil also came with them. And the Lord said to Devil, where have you come from? Devil answered the Lord, from roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it. Pondering on the mindless senseless heinous massacre of the innocent children of God yesterday at Ozubulu and taken my mind down the memory as it concerns the invasion of Umu-Eri by Agu-Eri in 1995 etc and the recent happenings in our community. Reflecting from the book of job, I can see that  actually "Satan" or devil goes to church.  What happened in Job 1 vs 6-7, depicts the picture of worshippers who came to worship God in a church, while among them,  a  "Person was there" who actually was the instrument in the hands of the devil who has a clear intention to deal ruthlessly with the man called "Job" who is among the congregation...

Ozubulu... death of the innocent Yesterday gunmen stormed into a Catholic church in Ozubulu and gunned down members of the congregation who were attending Sunday mass. As the drama unfolded and social media was agog with gory pictures, the rumour mills started grinding and the blame was immediately directed at all sorts of terrorist groups. As the day progressed, however, the truth filtered through and it was revealed that the source of this massacre was an enemy within otherwise known as Greed. It is said that innocent people lost their lives in the incident but let us ask ourselves, is anyone really innocent in this? Can any of us claim to be innocent? Are we really surprised that this incident occurred? Have we not been courting this enemy for several years now in Igboland? Is it something that started today? According to reports corroborated by the governor of Anambra state, the incident was the outcome of a drugs war between two drug barons from Ozubulu who were fighting ove...

ANAMBRA POLL: *An incumbent Governor and Party Once Defeated their stronghold Will be Defeated Again By the Same Guard*   Electioneering period in Anambra state has always attracted public opinion and chronicle reactions from concern citizens of the state. Elections in the state previously involves different political parties with utmost respect to multi-party system of democracy in Nigeria. However, in 2013, election was conducted in Anambra state and 3 major political parties was involved among others, PDP, APC and APGA. *APGA and PDP were unfortunately adopted by the then President Goodluck Jonathan with special preference for Apga due to his personal relationship with the then Governor* *Furthermore, a particular  candidate of PDP shamefully disgraced all the naysayers and bad Belle pot belly politicians to emerge victorious in the primaries* *This candidate even with incidence of the obvious sabotage by the president and betrayal by its own very party that sold...

Students of Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe shut down Awka over hike in school fess and Transport fares by Anambra State Government. http://magretdavidz.blogspot.com.ng/2017/08/students-of-nwafor-orizu-college-of.html?m=1

IPOB AND NO ELECTION IN ANAMBRA! The Nnamdi Kanu Led IPOB has been clamouring for no election in Anambra State come November 18th, many are worried about it and what it portent for Anambra as a State and as a people. The truth remain that IPOB stay at home for some time now have rattled the federal government \States hence their call for no election in Anambra state is taken serious by political gladiators. One thing we should all bear in mind is that IPOB are only compelling their followers\sympathisers to stay at home. If they do there will be low turnout during the election and whomever that has the highest number of votes will be declare winner and will be sworn in as the next governor of the state. People should stop creating fear and unnecessary unease atmosphere prior to the November 18th election! No state of emergency will be declared in Anambra, we have seen Rivers election were there was unrest and other kind of things that warrant declaration of state of emergency b...