Thanks for your contributions in the Town Hall, Rev. Fr. Sylvester Dacho Ihuoma. I was waiting to see if another person would respond first to your observations.
Yours are some excellent points. The whole idea of Okpofe.com, and particularly, Okpofe Town Hall was to provide a common forum, without the hindrance of distance, to encourage Okpofe sons and daughters- (Friends too) of Okpofe to share information, and exchange ideas. That goal has been achieved to some extent, but we can do a lot more in this place to capture and propagate our common goals.
I have continuously asked for ideas on how to make this site more useful and more interesting to us, but our people have been less than generous in this area, to say the least. I am aware that people are visiting okpofe.com from different parts of the world. Some have left a trace- by saying something in the Town Hall, but others have come in and out leaving only a geographical stamp which I have enforced only with technology. It is not encouraging and probably not very sincere when any Okpofe indigene comes in here, browse through the little available information, and just 'sneak' out.
I will immediately create a page to accommodate your suggestion of pictorial news of developments in Okpofe. To avoid publication of sensitive and inappropriate pictures, I would ask that contributors send me scanned pictures directly to my email- innocent@okpofe.com
For the minutes of OIU meetings, this is also a wonderful idea. However, I will let the authorities make the decision on whether they want to exploit this medium to reach Okpofe people all over the world. For the records, I will accept and create a secure area where I will publish ODA minutes, and as a matter of fact, other correspondences of community interest. The leaders of our community have to make that call.