Isiugwu Elite Association

 By Levi Okoroja   Introduction: This article aims at enhancing community development using peace as a tool. There is nothing called development in a community where peace is static. Peace is a pre-requisite for development as a whole because it creates an enabling environment for the fundamentals of a society’s progress: human capital formation, infrastructure development, markets subject to the rule of law, and so on (Roshan and Sarah, 2011).   Although the word "PEACE" has a clear meaning for most people, ‘peaceful act’ and ‘peaceful individual’ can have different interpretations. In conflict to the common assumption, the state of the peaceful person is not one we can achieve only through good deeds. This state is obtained through perceptions that result in making peace with God, with the physical universe, with one’s self, and with the others. It means that the peaceful individual is at peace with God, with every single constituent of the universe, with one’...

  From the Desk of the Editor, ISEA Annual Conference Magazine :      Nduka Odo The theme of the ISEA Annual Conference, Community Development: the Isiugwu Situation is a succinct choice for a rural village like Isiugwu, Enugu Ezike, in Enugu State. The United Nations Development Programme has made the concept of development easier. When the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expired in 2015, the world adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs encompasses the best elements to conceptualize development. The elements serve as the indices for measuring development in any society. The indices are best called the 17 SDGs or Global Goal. They include: Goal 1: No Poverty. Goal 2: Zero Poverty. Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being. Goal 4: Quality Education. Goal 5: Gender Equality. Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation. Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy. Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. Goal ...

  By Nduka Odo Challenges birth opportunities, ideas and great men. So did poor enrolment into higher education birth an idea that have come to stay for more than 20 years. In 1999, a group of undergraduates of Isiugwu, Enugu Ezike formed Isiugwu Elite Youth Association with the sole aim of encouraging enrolments into higher education among the people of Isiugwu.    With that objective, the association embarked on seminars and sensitizations for parents and students. They made members of the community understand why higher education is paramount. They taught secondary school students how to pass WAEC and JAMB without cutting corners. They counselled secondary school students on the choices of institutions and courses. Such seminars also included issues like early marriage and completion of secondary education, especially for the female child. Many parents and guardians believed that higher education was so expensive that they never imagined their children having unive...

    Dele Maxwell Ugwanyi is a distinguished literary scholar of International status. He is a renowned Political analyst and social commentator. He belongs to various national and international bodies which has seen him traveled around the world delivering lectures and conducting research. His areas of research interest inter alia; Climate change, migration, gender studies, postcolonial studies and African Literature. Dr Ugwanyi is both a farmer and an entrepreneur. He is the CEO JUBRIMAXY GROUPS. A Faculty member, Social Sciences and Humanities, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria.  

    I will like to start by putting Isiugwu on a map. On an African map, Isiugwu is as tiny as a drop of seed, invisible to any onlooker. Does that make her irrelevant? Of course not. Our smallness is an advantage. Nigeria is very large, but since 1914, we all know what that marriage has suffered.  A family is the oldest institution established by man, affiliated by blood and held together by a bond that cannot be manufactured in a lab. A family is stronger than a government. A government undergoes series of restructuring, reshuffling and expiration, but not a family. A son of the Ugwuanyi will not wake up the following day as Abugu. I started by placing this great community on a big map. If you’ve travelled overseas or you’re familiar with the stories told by those who have, you will hear the pain in their voices when they narrate the hatred they endure. If immigration police doesn’t get them for incomplete papers, a racist officer will get them for the colour of...