To the initiator of Okpofe.com I express my deepest regard and acknowledgement for a singular developmental feat. To have introduced this website to provide an interactive forum for Okpofe indigenes and friends is a noble act. Thanks therefore a thousand times and keep it up.
My second point, summarized in the words of the famous novel, Oliver Twist, characteristically expresses a yearning for more information to be shared through this medium.
If the effort has been made by one person to put all of us in touch with home reality, could it not be worthwhile to engage people back home to furnish us for example with non-sensitive minutes of Okpofe Improvement Union. Should need be, a password could be required to access such an area. In the present age of information technology, a lot of input could be made by Okpofe indigenes everywhere to the development of our dear town, if deliberations for next meetings are known. If without much logistical difficulty some responsible people could on a monthly basis post news and new developments in the community, this would in my view enrich the content of the website and make it more interesting for people to visit.
One particular area that could interest us if such an update from home is made available on regular basis will be our community projects, especially our primary school. Pictures of this school could be posted. People who go home and are able to visit this school will be terribly surprised. By putting such areas into public view would challenge us to make calls across to whoever is going to represent Okpofe as councillor in the next dispensation to act. We collectively and authoritatively could as such monitor things from afar and put pressure where necessary. Questions could be asked as to why the bole hole sweated out by our women with the help of some of our sons in the States or from elsewhere is not running. Remedies could be sought.
I would wish to have such vital areas of our being Okpofe put somehow into consideration. Well aware of the enormous energy this might require, it still is worth considering.
So once again I salute the ingenuity of our son. Okpofe nwere mmadu. Ka Chineke gozie onye obula n'echere Obodo anyi bu Okpofe echiche oma.

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.

Inno,
Giant stride you have made by creating Okpofe.com. I did not know of it till yesterday night,14.05.2008. I came into Abuja from Lagos. I stayed with Emeka Iwunna. In the course of home chat, he informed me of thei uniting site. The following day, I went to net to confirm. The informtion is true and relieving. I will make contributions.
Thanks a lot and god bless.

Well said. Thank a million for a wonderful contribution. We will get there and the best is yet to come. I know the creator of this noble website never gives up.