Umueriland Today

This is an inspiring story that has circulated widely on the internet for years. It is a story of transformation and determination to live. The wide appeal of this story speaks to the eagle's extraordinary power to captivate and inspire human beings. While this story is inspiring, and may offer us a way to reflect on our own life journey, the story is just that, a story. It is not accurate biologically. I have underlined what the storyteller usually says and then I have written below that a rebuttal to that statement. The eagle has the longest life-span among birds Eagles typically live between 20-30 years in the wild. As apex predators, they are relatively long-lived compared to many other birds. The oldest wild eagle on record is about 32 years of age. It can live up to 70 years. But to reach this age, the eagle must make a hard decision. In its 40’s its long and flexible talons can no longer grab prey which serves as food. Talons are hard, sharp and curved througho...

The Advent of Anglican Church In Umueri The advent of Christian missions to Umueri was the effort of the 18th century evangelical and revival movements which went through the length and breadth of Europe. The revival hnreached America and West coast of Africa through the activities of liberated slaves. Having embraced the Christian faith while in the Americas, those ex-slaves became the light bearers for the evangelization of the West coast and the interio. In Nigeria, it was the ex-slaves and returnees from Sierra Leone that pioneered the evangelization of the country especially the Igbo country, Umueri inclusive. The first Christian mission to make a successful inroad to Umueri was the Anglican Church which came under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society (CMS). This was an evangelical wing of the Anglican Church founded in 1799 and commissioned to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to the ‘heathem’ lands especially Asia and Africa. The Church Missionary Society (CM...

WHEN A HANDSHAKE GOES BEYOND THE PALM! What started as a friendly romance has turned to game of life and death. Few months ago month of June to be precise I went home for the Thanksgiving service of a friends fathers burial, I was asked to see Elder Edo'o Ndive aka Stroker by a colleague, a fellow crusader Daniel Obiora of Umueri project. To add him to our whatsApp group so that we will harmonise with him prior to our upcoming book launch. After the service I met with Barr Jude Ekwenze and passed some message to him to Stroker but on a second thought I decided to go to his house to rub mind with him, getting to his house he was busy with group of peasants he is holding meeting with, I waited briefly for him to round up fortunately he was almost done with his congregation on my arrival. after they have done with the meeting we exchange pleasantries and he offered us seat as I went their with a friend Chinedu Udeawka (Charcile) We talked about his UGA history committee wh...

21 FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE DANGOTE REFINERY 1. Over $4 billion worth of equipment currently sits on the site. 2. The project is slated to cost $14 billion (N5 trillion) of which Dangote is contributing $7 billion in equity. 3. The project site is 8 times larger than Victoria Island. It is located on 2135 hectares of land in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos near the Lekki Free Zone. 4. It is the largest industrial complex in Africa. 5. Work goes on, on the site, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 6. World Record 2.72 million accident free hours recorded on site, without a single lost time to injuries. 7. It is the largest single train grass roots refinery in the world with a processing capacity of 650,000 BPSD. 8. Dangote Group brought in the world’s #1, #2, and #5 sand dredgers to sand fill the site. 60% of the land being swampy. 9. During construction, the project will employ over 25,000 Nigerians and will employ over 300,000 workers upon completion. 10. Dangote is inv...

Godly Heritage APRIL 17 ·FRIENDS Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical science artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Back in the late sixties, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young came out with a popular song called, “Teach Your Children Well.” It was addressed to the freewheeling hippie generation, which had tried to cast off all the restraints and rules of their parents’ generation. While the song reflected noble intentions, I always thought that there was a great deal of irony reflected in it, that this rebellious generation would somehow succeed in teaching their children where their parents had failed. I’m afraid that my generation succeeded in teaching our kids all too well. We taught them that lifelong commitment in marriage is outdated. We taught them to cast off the roles of husband as provider and wife as mother and homemaker...

Life has many sides but the one ordained for every true sons and daughters of the soil is the winning side of life. This side of life is also known as the overcoming life. This is because we have overcome inferiority complex, we have been translated from weak and pitiable Kingdom into a Kingdom and people where dominion and glory are our honour, we now live as a people who has their own voice and a people you cannot force illegality or puppet down their throat. However one of pivotal aims of every Kingdom is to extend the culture s and values of the king through expansion of territories. Hence all who lives in a Kingdom lives for one purpose : they live for the king. To live their lives for themselves. Is to live unto death. It is essential to note that before a territory can be expanded, it must be overcome and. Conquered. Thus how then do we overcome a territory? First in the circumstance we have found ourselves over the years, we seems disadvantaged and incapacitated therefore to...

NIGERIA MILITARY FORCES SCHOOLS TO CLOSE IN ANAMBRA STATE AS PUPILS SCAMPER HOME FOR SAFETY The sudden appearance of the Medical Corps of 82 Division of Nigeria Army at St Michael's Catholic Church, Ozubulu Anambra State for what they termed Free Medical Mission has forced Schools to close and children ran home for safety. Anambra State government through the Commissioner for Health said the medical Corp was in the State without the knowledge and consent of Anambra State Government. It is not clear whether the Catholic Diocese of Nnewi whose premises the Military are using gave their consent. As at 10:00am today, Principals and Head Teachers of Schools including missionary Schools in Ozubulu as well as in Nnewi, Oraifite,  Okija, Ihiala and Onitsha have dismissed their students to go home as it was rumoured that the Military were about moving from school to school to forcibly immunize pupils and infect them with monkey pox epidemic. The truth is that the Military exercise tagge...