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UMUERILAND TODAY: Good day Sir, Please can you introduce yourself to our  reading public? Hon Patrick Ezinteje: My name is Hon. Patrick Ezinteje, I am from Mmanoma Nneyi Umueri. I was the former chairman of Nneyi community, a former supervisory counselor, a retired teacher, and currently the PRO 1 of this outgoing regime. I have served in many capacity too numerous to mention for the want of time. Notably among them are; Constitutional review committee representing Nneyi in 2015, Secretary; Peace and reconcilation Committee under Late Henry Jideani headed by Chief Vincent Okoye; Member, Peace and Reconcilation Committee under Chief Gabriel Anikpeh (Enyi Umueri) headed by Chief Simon Onwubor and also a member of the ill-fated implementation/disciplinary Committee among others. UMUERILAND TODAY: Thanks your Honor. We have heard much about you and your exploit in Umueri leadership circle, could you please let us know your major interest in the fourth coming UGA electio...

Love Love encompasses a variety of different emotional and mental states, typically strongly and positively experienced, ranging from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure.  Greek god:  Eros Greek goddess:  Aphrodite Roman god:  Cupid Roman godess:  Venus People also ask? Everyone seems to be hankering after romantic love, but few of us realize that far from being timeless and universal, romantic love is in fact a modern construct, one that emerged in tandem with the novel. In Madame Bovary (1856), itself a novel, Gustave Flaubert tells us that Emma Bovary only found out about romantic love through ‘the refuse of old lending libraries’. These books, he wrote: But there are many other ways to love, not all of which are consistent or consonant with romantic love. By preoccupying ourselves with romantic love, we risk neglecting other types of love that are more readi...

UMUERILAND TODAY: Good day Sir, Please can you introduce yourself to our  reading public? Chief Chuma Nweke: my name is Chief Charles Chukwuma Nweke Edochie (ONODUGO)  as you  know am a native of Umueri, am from Ekpe Iruadimone Nneyi Umueri  am married with kids  and also a business man based in onitsha. UMUERILAND TODAY: Thank you Sir. We have heard much about you and your exploit in the business field, please let us know your major interest in the fourth coming UGA election? Chief Chuma Nweke: my interest in the fourth coming UGA election is that am aspiring. To be the PG by the  grace of God  if elected my sole interest is Umueri  unity and peace  is all I want as a PG, and what am coming to do is based on common interest and you know what the common interest of Umueri people is all about. UMUERILAND TODAY : You are from Ezi(Nneyi)and we learnt that the post of PG is zoned to Ezi? Chief Chuma Nweke : yes the post of PG is zone...

TITLE TAKING IN UMUERI Title taking is an age long tradition in Umueri practiced in several parts of Igbo land. Each event is celebrated with much pomp and pageantry and is preceded by series of preparations that involves the whole town. It is a mark of distinction as it tends to distinguish the celebrant from the rest of his kindred and confers on him certain priviledges and rights. Title taking is one of the measures the Igbo Society has put in place as a mechanism to promote hard work, honesty, piety and uprightness in the various communities it is practiced. All intending title-takers are subjected to various forms of examinations and rites which must be completed before being conferred with a title. Because of the combination of factors that are involved in title taking, the holders are held in high esteem and revered by all and sundry. It not only enhances the social status of the beneficiary but acts as a form of social insurance for holders who have to fall on the ...