SOLAD Osuagwu Commends Itu Women August Meeting

Itu Ezinihitte Community Women August Meeting better known as “Oha Ndom Itu” in Ezinihitte LGA, which started Tuesday, August 27, 2013 came to a successful end, Thursday, August 29, 2013 at ‘Oha Ndom Itu’ hall with the Ezinihitte Local Government SOLAD, Hon. Dr. Kelechi Osuagwu giving the mothers accolades for their credible performance. The three-day programme featured many activities including plucking of ‘Mkpuru Omumu’ which was one of the major sources of raising funds for developmental projects in their community. On his arrival at the Women’s August Meeting venue, Wednesday, August 28, 2013, the SOLAD, Hon. Dr. Kelechi Osuagwu was highly excited with the aesthetic beauty of the arena and began to commend the women,…

AUGUST MEETING: Ecumenism in action at Amata-Ikeduru

It was another giant stride in ecumenism and grassroots evangelization on Sunday, August 25, 2013 as the Anglican dominated women of Amatta-Amaka in Ikeduru LGA trooped en masse to end their August Meeting at St. Francis Catholic Parish – the only Catholic Parish in a town with four Anglican parishes. Welcoming the worshipers, the Parish Priest, Rev. Fr. Stephen Unamba pleaded for divine wisdom on the women, good health of mind and body on the entire sick, fruit of the womb for those barren and fidelity on every ailing marriage.  He did not mince words in commending the President of the women and the Secretary, Mrs. Chinyere Oparaoriaku and Gladys Amadi.  Said he, ‘your exemplary…

Oboama Women inaugurates Security outfit – OWASU

The Women August Meeting, which usually characterizes fund-raising activities meetings, lectures, funfairs etc., throughout Mbaise and Imo State in general for Oboama Women Association (OWA) in Ezinihitte LGA, Mbaise this year took a dramatic turn by not only encompassing the obvious, but scaled to the height of inaugurating a security outfit to be known as Oboama Women Association Security Unit, OWASU, that ensures orderliness within the environs of the OWA August meetings. This OWA Police, which is the ingenuity of Mrs. Rose Anawanti, the OWA President, Mrs. Pauline Nwachukwu, Vice-President and the OWA Exco, was lauded by Imo State Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mrs Rotimi Oluwa Adelesi who represented the State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji…

August Meeting – A Message For All Dignified Christian Women In 2013 August Meeting

Who is a dignified Christian woman? A dignified Christian woman is a God-fearing woman, a woman of honour with good reputation who appreciates and upholds God’s divine plan for woman right from creation as a mother, wife and a helper to her husband. She realizes that right from creation God gave her vocation and bestowed honour on her which rest on order of love and care to humanity. The dignity of a Christian woman cannot be purchased by money rather it was established by God as if woman is “Ordained” to be a mother, a wife and helper to her husband. The dignity of a woman is a “divine project”. (Gen. 2:18). A dignified Christian…

August Meeting as a vehicle of development

This year’s August Meeting, the one-week annual reunion of the women wing of Home and Abroad unions of autonomous communities in the South-Eastern States, is now in progress. The occasion which started as a yearly gathering of women in some communities and as a vehicle for moral rearmament and community development at first merely served to remind them of their domestic responsibilities while meting out sanctions to defaulters as appropriate.  Over the years, this laudable post-civil war get-together, spread throughout the region, while enlarging its agenda to become a formidable vehicle of community development, both in infrastructure and capacity building. Attendance is compulsory for all married women while funds raised are ploughed into areas of…

August Meeting

As this year’s “August Meeting” draws near, a lot of anticipations and preparations are made in order to make it a fruitful one.  Women from all over the world, especially the married Igbo women flock back home for this annual meeting. It is during this meeting that decisions are made for the betterment of the Igbo women and the community at large.  This very meeting of theirs is taken very seriously, in the sense that anyone who fails to attend it pays a fine (especially those who have been mandated). The concept of the meetings evolved from the annual mass return.  The mass return were for every citizen – men, women, youth and children.  The…