Meet ‘AreaBoy’ – Your Smart Local Companion on Vicilook
AreaBoy is a one-of-a-kind conversational AI assistant built by Vicilook to serve as your smart, friendly, and reliable guide to everything happening around you – from local businesses, school updates, events, government services, to real estate, jobs, yearbooks, and more.
Think of AreaBoy as your smart streetwise buddy – who knows everything about your community, speaks your language, and responds like one of us. He’s not just tech-savvy – he’s area-smart. 
What is AreaBoy?
AreaBoy is an AI-powered chatbot built into Vicilook. It connects deeply with Vicilook’s custom data, including:
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Places (businesses, schools, churches, hospitals, etc.)
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Events
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Lawyers & Handworkers
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Graduation yearbooks
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News
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Products for sale
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Hotel rooms
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Tutors
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Real estate
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And so much more…
It allows anyone to ask questions naturally (by typing or speaking) and instantly get personalized, helpful responses — just like asking a real friend who always has the answer.
How It Works
To chat with AreaBoy:
• Just say or type “Area” to wake him up – like “Hey Siri” on iPhone.
• Ask your question in plain language – e.g.:
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“Area, where can I buy medicine in Nnewi?”
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“Area, any events this weekend near me?”
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“Area, who are the lawyers in Awka?”
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“Area, what’s Redmax Pharmacy all about?”
AreaBoy will search Vicilook’s data instantly and give you a smart, relevant, safe, and community-friendly response.
What Can AreaBoy Do?
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Answer your local questions with real-time Vicilook data
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Direct you to businesses, schools, churches, and more near you
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Guide you through events, jobs, news, and services in your area
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Help you explore hotel rooms, tutors, realtors, and professionals
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Share yearbook entries and graduation info from schools
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Link you to real estate listings, legal professionals, and more
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Give you directions using Vicilook’s map data
And he’s always learning more from new content posted by Vicilook users every day.
Why Did Vicilook Build AreaBoy?
Vicilook was created to connect African communities with useful information, and AreaBoy is a bold step in that mission.
We wanted something:
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Deeply local, yet smart and friendly
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Powered by authentic African voices and data
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Built to be safe, kind, and always helpful
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Designed to grow with user contributions
AreaBoy gives our communities the power of artificial intelligence — but shaped by our own language, values, humor, culture, and data.
It’s My Postsity
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Speaks clearly, in relatable and respectful tone
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Never uses bad, derogatory, or offensive words
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Kind, smart, and witty — just like a trusted friend
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Proudly Nigerian, proudly African, proudly Area
Safe & Secure
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AreaBoy only uses data available from Vicilook pages, posts, and archives
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No external data stealing, no profiling, no shady behavior
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Admins can train AreaBoy further via the backend
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You can trust that AreaBoy represents Vicilook only
Powered By Vicilook Ecosystem Technology, Fueled By Community
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AreaBoy is fully built into Vicilook’s custom post types and metadata
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It understands your natural language using advanced NLP (Natural Language Processing)
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It adapts to your area, your interests, and your voice
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It gets smarter the more Vicilook grows
The Future of AreaBoy
This is just the beginning. AreaBoy will evolve to:
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Support more local languages & dialects
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Assist with more services (job matching, school admissions, community alerts)
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Offer smarter notifications, recommendations & voice calls
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Become a true local AI concierge for every African community
Try AreaBoy Now!
Click the chat icon on any Vicilook page, say “Area”, and ask away.
Let AreaBoy help you explore your world like never before.
AreaBoy is not just a bot. He’s one of us. Powered by Vicilook. Built in Africa with love and passion for community development.
VICILOOK FEATURES
1. VICILOOK PLACES
Our platform helps users discover, share, and connect with local businesses, services, and community events. Vicilook’s geospatial tools enable the localization and visualization of essential community resources, promoting local knowledge visibility on a global scale, which is aligned with Wikimedia’s mission of promoting equitable access to information.
To see an example click HERE
2. VICILOOK TOWNS & LINEAGE
Communities can digitally document their heritage, traditional leaders, and ongoing events. This feature enables the preservation and sharing of local cultural knowledge, further supporting Wikimedia’s commitment to ensuring inclusive representation of diverse cultures and communities.
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3. VICILOOK PRODUCT SECURITY
Vicilook allows for the verification and authentication of locally manufactured products, promoting transparency and trust in community-based resources. This aligns with Wikimedia’s goal of fostering reliable, accurate knowledge through the creation of trustworthy information.
To See an example click HERE
4. VICILOOK RESTAURANT MENU
Local restaurants can digitally display menus, making their offerings more visible to a wider audience. This feature enables the global visibility of local culinary traditions, enhancing cultural exchange in line with Wikimedia’s mission of sharing diverse knowledge.
To See an example, click HERE
5. VICILOOK CAMPUS XPLORER
This feature supports students’ access to educational resources by providing visual maps and connecting them to people, places, and opportunities within their campus environments. It fosters educational equity, contributing to Wikimedia’s goal of increasing knowledge access for all.
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Educational institutions can digitally share resources, lectures, and collaborate with students, ensuring that learning is accessible to all. This tool supports Wikimedia’s mission to foster global access to education and bridge knowledge gaps.
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7. VICILOOK ARTS
Vicilook helps local artists showcase their work in virtual galleries, promoting cultural diversity and artistic expression. By empowering artists to digitally display and share their work, we are advancing the goal of global cultural knowledge exchange, which aligns with Wikimedia’s focus on promoting diverse artistic representation.
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8. VICILOOK BOOKS
Authors can authenticate and promote their works, contributing to the literary knowledge base. This feature supports global literacy and access to literature, furthering the Wikimedia mission of sharing diverse knowledge.
To see an example, click HERE
9. VICILOOK DICDAL (DIGITAL CHURCH DIRECTORY AND LECTIONARY)
Religious institutions can document their services and provide resources for their communities. This feature helps preserve and share religious knowledge digitally, supporting Wikimedia’s goal of ensuring equitable representation of all cultural and spiritual communities.
To see a community priests, click HERE
To see a community church, click HERE
To See all community churches in a community called Nnewi, click HERE
10. VICILOOK YEARBOOK
Graduating students can create digital yearbooks, enabling the preservation of educational milestones and achievements, which aligns with Wikimedia’s mission to ensure accurate and verifiable knowledge.
See example here;
To see a senior example click HERE
To see a junior example click HERE
11. VICILOOK EVENTS
This feature helps users digitally organize and share hyper-local events, allowing for wider community participation and collaboration at grassroots levels. It also has a feature that allows event planners save cost and the planet by not printing paper event materials, thereby displaying a digital material that acts and looks exactly like the paper version.
It supports the goal of increasing local knowledge sharing at grassroots levels and pushed to a global scale.
To see an example, click HERE
12. VICILOOK LAWYERZ
Vicilook connects users with verified legal professionals in their communities, promoting access to justice and legal resources in a verified and transparent manner. This complements Wikimedia’s mission to make legal knowledge freely accessible.
To see a Chamber, click HERE
To See a Lawyer page, click HERE
13. VICILOOK BIZ HUB
Small local businesses can showcase their products through digital listings, directly engaging with customers. This contributes to local economic empowerment, increasing the visibility of community entrepreneurs and enhancing local knowledge sharing.
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14. VICILOOK PROPERTY
This feature allows for secure property transactions and promotes transparency in real estate deals. It ensures local property knowledge is visible and accessible in global knowledge networks.
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15. VICILOOK REALTOR & REAL ESTATE AGENTS
By connecting users with verified real estate agents, Vicilook ensures safe and reliable transactions, contributing to the global knowledge base and the Wikimedia mission of transparency and reliability.
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16. VICILOOK E-GOV
Governments can use Vicilook to share real-time data about services, policies, and civic projects, increasing government transparency and aligning with Wikimedia’s goal to promote public knowledge.
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17. VICILOOK ROADPATH
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Using QR codes and Vicilinks, this feature offers real-time data about local businesses and events, promoting engagement in local economies. It helps bring hyper-local content into the digital space, supporting Wikimedia’s goal of localized knowledge sharing.
See it HERE
18. VICILOOK COMMUNITY FACTS (Beta)
Discover FACTS about any local community based on Academic Researches conducted by a real Academic Researcher. See an example HERE
19. VICILOOK E-POLITICAL CAMPAIGN
Vicilook E-Political Campaign is an innovative feature on Vicilook that helps political candidates run effective online campaigns for both general and campus elections. It features data extraction and interactive tools with manifestos, biographies, updates, and multimedia content of the political candidates. Supporters can express interest by clicking “Will You Vote for Me?” and show public backing via the “Endorse Me”button. Comments, shares, and live engagement tools foster vibrant voter interaction. For campus elections, only vetted candidates can participate via school-approved administrators. The platform promotes transparency, civic engagement, and modern digital democracy globally. See an example HERE
20. VICILOOK FARMERS MARKET
Connects users with verified local farmers for direct trade.
22. VICILOOK JOBS
Helps anyone post or access local jobs, especially within their current vicinity.
23. VICILOOK VICINITY UPDATE & FOLLOW YOUR VICINITY
Vicinity Updates is a groundbreaking new feature that allows you to engage with content and communities specifically tailored to individual states in a country. Unlike broad social feeds, Vicinity Updates ensures that the information you see and share is directly relevant to your current location or the states you care about most. All you got to do is ‘Follow’ your vicinities and post in your vicinities to stay connected with your current or preferred local vicinities.
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BILLIONS IN LEGAL FEES: NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT’S EXPENDITURE RAISES EYEBROWS
A staggering revelation has emerged, exposing the Nigerian government’s lavish spending on legal fees. A whopping N1.1 billion has been shelled out to top lawyers over a period of three years, sparking intense scrutiny and debate.
LEGAL LUMINARIES CASH IN ON GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
Prominent lawyers, including Chief Afe Babalola and Wole Olanipekun, have been beneficiaries of these substantial payments. Their services have encompassed a wide range of legal expertise, from counsel and documentation to representation in high-stakes court cases.
GOVERNMENT GUIDELINES FLAUNTED AS LEGAL FEES SKYROCKET
Despite established guidelines governing legal fees, the Nigerian government’s expenditure on legal services has raised concerns about transparency and accountability. The Legal Practitioners Remuneration Order, 2023, seems to have been overlooked in the government’s zeal to engage top legal talent.
A CLOSER LOOK AT THE PAYMENTS
A notable instance of the government’s largesse is the payment of N482.7 million to Babalola, Olanipekun, and Izinyon in July 2024. Babalola pocketed N372.9 million for representing the federal government in a court case, while Olanipekun and Izinyon received N103.6 million and N6.2 million, respectively.
MORE LAWYERS BENEFIT FROM GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
Further investigation reveals that 17 lawyers received a cumulative sum of N359.7 million in 2022, while four lawyers were paid a total of N319.3 million in 2021. The list of beneficiaries includes Savannah Law Chambers, Lex Habitae, and Rashida Mohammed & Co, among others.
]]>JIC EZEGWUI & CO. INTEGRITY CHAMBERS is an eminent law chamber located in Enugu, incorporated in 2007, though the head of chambers (principal) JIC Ezegwui has been in Legal Practice since 2003 with 3 lawyers as associates.
From 2007, the CHAMBER has been engaged in general law practice with particular specialty in Commercial/Business Law; Real and intellectual property law.
The Chamber’s physical address started from 66 Zik Avenue to 106 Zik Avenue to 122 Zik Avenue to 65 Zik Avenue and now in her own property situate at Plot 15 Hill Crest Estate Uwani behind Roban Stores and facing Oji Street.
Lots of lawyers have passed through the CHAMBERS and cases handled by the CHAMBERS have been published in Law Reports in Nigeria.
The principal JIC Ezegwui is a Notary Public and Associate Chattered Arbitrator and presently the secretary of Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrator (NICARB) Enugu State Branch. Other lawyers in chambers have many extra qualifications. This has increased the services provided by the CHAMBERS to Include Notorization of Documents and Alternative Dispute Resolution in management of disputes. Presently, the CHAMBERS has about 12 lawyers as Associates.
The principal JIC Ezegwui Esq has been the former Legal Adviser, Nigerian Bar Association, Enugu Branch, former SSA Legal Adviser to the past Deputy Governor of Anambra State, former Federal Board Member of Federal Polytechnic, Oko and presently the Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Enugu Branch.
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To be one of the best Chambers in Africa where legal and proprietary interest of citizens are identified and protected.
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Under God, to serve with dedication and with most productive spirit protect all identified rights of citizens, the poor, the rejected, the confused and the rich.
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Branch: 65 Zik Avenue Uwani Enugu
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“ I am conscious of the humanitarian spirit which runs in my veins to seek others’ welfare. This is the tie that connects me with every member of the Nigerian bar and propels me to seek their maximum welfare.” Maximus Ugwuoke.
UGWUOKE IS HOME BRED
*He was born on 4th February 1981. He hails from Umabor Ehalumona in Nsukka L.G.A. Enugu State of Nigeria. He is happily married with children.
*He commenced his formal Education at Owerre Umabor Primary School Ehalumona, Nsukka where he obtained his First School Living Certificate in 1993.
*He proceeded to St Teresa’s College Nsukka, where he obtained West African Senior School Certificate in 1999.
*In the year 2000, he gained admission to study Law at University of Nigeria Nsukka (Enugu Campus) where he obtained his Law degree (LLB) in 2006.
*After his graduation, he proceeded to Nigerian Law School Abuja where he obtained Bachelor of Laws (BL) degree in 2008 and was called to the Nigeria Bar in May 2008.
*In the same 2008 he proceeded to Nasarawa State, where he did his youth service and obtained my Youth Service certificate.
* He has a Certificate of Proficiency in Management from Nigerian Institute of Management.
*He has a Certificate of Proficiency in Universal Mandatory IT Training (UMITT).
GROWING WITH PASSION WITH SELFLESS SERVICE
*Ugwuoke’s passion for service to others started early while he was in the University.
*He was the Lord Chancellor Most Ancient Romanic Order of Magna Juris, & Head of Gret Chambers University of Nigeria Students Bar Association (UNSBA).
*He was the Founding Editor in Chief of The Legalogue (University Of Nigeria Students Bar Association Journal).
*At that time he also played active role as the Clerk of the House of Reps, University of Nigeria Students Union Government.
* Upon his call to the Nigerian Bar in 2008, he commenced legal pupilage at Keffi, Nasarawa State in the chambers of Ogwuche & Co. That was during the period of his NYSC.
*During his pupilage he undertook some cases of indigent prisoners in Nassarawa State on probono as his Community Development Project and was able to secure the release of about 10 of the inmates before the end of his service year; the project earned him Nasarawa State NYSC Commendation Award.
*He promoted an NGO, Initiative for Human and societal Development in Africa
UGWOKE LEARNT FROM THE VERY BEST AND NOW DOING HIS BEST
*He joined the Law firm Ikeazor Akaraiwe SAN (Akaraiwe & Associate, Lex Rehoboth partners in 2009.
* He headed the Human Rights and Probono Department of the chambers and also doubled as the My Posts Assistant to his Principal, Akaraiwe who was serving his tenure as the National 1st Vice President of the Nigerian Bar Association and the pioneer chairman of Nigeria Bar Association Human Rights Institute at that period.
* He traversed the length and breadth of the country handling human right cases involving lawyers and non lawyers too numerous to mention some which were referred to the NBA Human Rights Institute by the then leadership of NBA led by Rotimi Akeredolu SAN.
*In 2012, he founded El- Maximus Ugwuoke & Co, Hakuna Matata Chambers in Enugu where he has remained the principal partner with about 8 associate counsel as at date.
*Currently he is the Enugu State Support Lawyer for Avocats Sans Frontieres (ASF) France, (a.k.a Lawyers without Borders) an International Human Rights Organization implementing a project tagged SAFE – Strengthening the national Actor’s Capacities and Advocating for Ending Serious Human Rights Violations in Nigeria. The project which is co-funded by the European Union and Agence Francaise De Developpment (AFD) has the Carmelites Prisoners Interest Organization (CAPIO) and Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) as partners.
* Under this position he has offered probono services to not less than 40 persons and still counting across the country.
*UGWUOKE IS A BAR MAN…*
*Between the years 2012 to 2014, he served the Nigerian Bar Association, Enugu Branch as Social Secretary of the branch.
*He also served as the Secretary to the Bar Dinner Committee and has been a member different committees of the bar.
* Currentmy he is the Alternate Chairman of Human Rights Committee of the Nigerian Barr Association Enugu Branch
* He attended and obtained Certificate of Participation in Nigerian Bar Association Institute of Continued Legal Education, 53rd Annual General Conference, with the theme “Law, Leadership and Challenge of Nationhood in the 21st Century Nigeria”
* He attended and obtained Certificate of Participation in Nigerian Bar Association Institute of Continued Legal Education with the Support Mac Arthur Foundation; Training on the New Fundamental Rights Enforcement Procedure Rules (2009) and African Regional Mechanism for the promotion of Human Rights.
*He has also attended and participated in many annual conferences of the Nigerian Bar Association .
*BEYOND THE BAR…*
Ugwuoke is the Editor-in- Chief of AMEN Super Newspaper as well as Legal and Media Assistant to Adoration Ministry, Enugu Nigeria AMEN.
* He is Currently a member of the National Executives of Nigeria Football Supporters Club where he holds office as National Ex Officio.
* He is also the Founding Editor in Chief of Public Justice Monitor.
*He is an Author and publisher of many books that have impacted so much on the youths and the society. Notable among my published works are:
_“Citadel of Doom”_ This youth-moral targeted novel which he authored and published in 2004 has contributed immensely in touching and molding the character of as many uncountable youths as have read the book in many tertiary institutions in Nigeria where it has been recommended and used in General Studies Curriculum, namely , University of Nigeria Nsukka, Federal College of Education Ehamufu, Enugu State College of Education Technical and other Higher Institutions across the nation.
_“Great Heights within_ your Might” he authored this un-put-down-able cornucopia. A Motivational Book published in 2008, which has also been recommended and used in Post Primary School Education Curriculum for many years.
“ _Black Fruit of the Orchard”_ A Novel Published in 2008 recommended and used in General Studies Curriculum some institutions of Higher Learning.
_“My Wife and I”_ An Inspirational Book on marriage and relationship, Published in 2013
*He has been a Key Note Speaker in some seminars and Workshops. In 2015 he was a Key note speaker on “Medical Tourism “at OGM of National Association of Resident Doctors in Nigeria, held on 28th May 2015. He has also been a Speaker at various youths and students programmes such as University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Nursing week, Young Catholic Students of Nigeria week programme, Catholic Youth Organization of Nigeria, Nsukka Diocese, etc.
*He has also held several talk shows on radio, television and other media on issues of human Rights and has been a guest speaker or resource person on invitation of many reputable organizations.
THE WELFARE OF OTHERS GIVES UGWUOKE SATISFACTION
He has devoted his private and professional life to serve humanity.
*He is passionate about others welfare and do not turn away his eyes from the needy. He has zero tolerance for injustice * He is actively involvement in activities of Multi-Life Savers For the Less Privileged People, the official NGO of Adoration Ministry Enugu, founded by Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka which has assisted thousands of people across the nation irrespective of their origin in many areas of human needs such as housing/shelter, payment of Hospital / medical Bills, Tuition Fees, award of scholarships, free legal services, skill acquisition, employment, economic empowerment etc.
*He has touched the lives of uncountable people in his legal carrier through probono services, human rights and public interest litigations which he has handled and is stl handling which are too numerous to mention.
*Through his Hakuna Matata Outreach he has personally touched lives of many people in need.
*In reflection of his humanitarian works and service to the society he has received several Merit Awards from many organization like Initiative for Human and Societal Development in Africa, University of Nigeria Students Union Government, National Youth Service Corps, Nasarawa State ,Young Catholic Students of Nigeria, YCS, to mention but a few.
* In fact it was his penchant for adding smiles on the faces of people around him that earned him the alias “HAKUNA MATATA”
That is the man Ikechukwu Maximus Ugwuoke, aka Hakuna Matata now trending as *MAXIMUS FOR MAXIMUM WELFARE* .
]]>The entire family of Ugwuoke and the Umugwuogboso kindred of Amagu Owerre Umabor Ehalumona in Nsukka LGA Enugu State, announces the transition to glory of their beloved Father, Grand Father, Brother and Inlaw.
THE BIOGRAPHY OF LATE CHIEF SIR ALOYSIUS OGWU UGWUOKE, EZEUDO 1 OF EHALUMONA AS COMPOSED BY ONE OF HIS SONS, BARR IKECHUKWU MAXIMUS UGWUOKE
HIS GENEOLOGY
Some centuries ago, a certain man named Ugwu, son of Onah nwanshuzu, who hailed from the Amagu Village of Umabor in Nsukka LGA of Enugu State lived in the center of the village where he had a terrible experience of losing his children at birth. This might not be unconnected with the risk factors to which children born at that era were predisposed to. But Ugwu thought differently of the situation maybe because of the peculiar circumstance he used to losehis children. He decided to relocate from the centre of his village where he lived with his family and settle at the entrance part of the village where he began to produce children that survived. The man Ugwu was later called Ugwu ogba oso connoting the fact that hewas the Ugwu that ran away from the centre of his village where he used to lose his children at birth tosettle at the part of the village land where his children started surviving.
Ugwuoke Onah, happened to be one of the surviving Children of Ugwuogboso. Conscious of his father’s travails and the need for procreation in other to dominate the land his father deforested and founded, Ugwuoke Onah married four wives one of whom was Oyima Ogbodo Ozioko from Umukwude Village in Umuhu Umabor. It was this marriage that produced Papa, the man Chief Sir Aloysius Ogwu Ugwuoke, KSJ, an enigma whose life and time I present here.
He was born in early forties and had an only sister who died young. Papa’s father, Ugwoke Onah was able to produce only 3 sons (Papa inclusive, the other two being Anthony Ugwuoke who died at the prime of his youth and Chief Felix Ugwuoke, who died some years ago) from the numerous wives he married. Upon the birth of Papa his father christened him “Ogwu nwa” connoting the fact that he is the medicine that heals his father’s craving for male children. Papa became the only surviving Child of his mother after the death of his biological sister (but he had other half sisters from other wives of his father). Prior to his death he was the only surviving son of his father. He marks his birthday on 16th day of November 1942. At one occasion I had a course to interact with him on his birthday and here what ensued
Me: “When were you really born?”
Papa: “Do I even know? At the time I was born no one used to keep the calendar of one’s birthday. So we can only access our birthdays through events that took place at such times”.
Me: “So what even event took place at your birth that can make you access your date of birth”
Papa (Laugh);“I chose 16th November 1942 as my official date of birth. I cannot quite remember the event of that year but that was about the year my mates and I was born. As for the date 16th November, that was the birthday one great man in Africa, Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Zik of Africa. We adored him them and I chose his birthday as mine?
Me:“ So that is why your birthday is 16th Of November? Perhaps you wanted to be as great as Zik?
Papa:“Obviously he was an idol of that time, I could not have wished
anything less”
Was papa great as Zik as he had wished? We ll find out as we read on.
EARLY LIFE EXPERIENCE- REJECTION AND ACCEPTANCE
As the only Child of his mother, Papa faced lots of challenges growing up especially within his extended family. The situation was so intense that his maternal uncle Ogbodo nwa Eze had to take him to his house where he lived and strived to survive. His said maternal uncle had to sell his only Bicycle which was a highly valued assets in those days, to send Papa to elementary School where he began his academic journey. His father, Ugwuoke Onah died while he was in the secondary school at St Charles College Onitsha and his said maternal uncle continue to support and sponsor him. At a certain point he returned to his father’s house and had to live with and serve his half brother, Late Chief Felix Ugwuoke. It was this trend that endeared Papa to his maternal home, Umukwede Village until his death. He takes his relationship with anyone from the said village seriously and continued to tell us, his children the story of how he survived through them.
HIS SECONDARY SCHOOL DAYS
Papa had his secondary Education at St Charles College Onitsha between late sixties and early seventies. It was during this period that he discovered his talent in sports. He was a racer of no comparison. Could he have either inherited his trait for racing from grandfather, the Ugwu Ogboso, who exhibited same trait of running from the centre of his village settle at the entrance with his family in a his quest for survival. Papa’s sports talent made him so popular in the school that he became fondly known and address as “Ugwuoke Sports”. He represented the school in several sports competitions and won many trophies for the school. I could recall his story about his exploits in short distances races when he told us that hiscontemporaries used to hail him with “Ugwuoke! Ugwuoke!, Sport! Sport!, Rapus! Rapus!” Notable among these competitions he won which I found from his records are; the Onitsha Awka zonal amateur athletic Competition inter teachers training college competition where Papa took a 2nd place position 4×440 YDS Relay and brought the glory for St Charles college Onitsha in 1971 (See attached Cert); Amateur Athletic Association of Nigeria East Central States Inter TTC Athletic Championship where Papa took 3rdposition in 4×440 yds Men’s Rela and brought glory to St Charles College Onitsha,( See Certificate attached) to mention but a few.
It needs be pointed out that inspite of Papa’s excellent performance in Sports, he discouraged us his children while in school from abandoning our studies for sports. His action was born out his experience while in secondary school when he had to be sent out to go and represent his school at sports competitions even at the cost of his miss his exams at some points while his mates were busy studying. He saw this as one inhibition to his academic dream which he never wished his children to have. He always admonished uson moderation when it comes to sports such that none of us, his children took interest in school sports after him.
On 6th September 1972, Papa obtained his Teacher’s Grade Two Certificate from Ministry of Education of then East Central States of Nigeria which armed him for the next phase of life- employment and marriage.Of course he secured his first employment as a teacherand was posted to teach at Central School Okparigbo Ibagwa ani.
HIS LOVE AND MARRIAGE LIFE
At about the age of 28 years, young Papa then, began to search for love. As a mile racer who never missed his marks, he set his target on a young beautiful fair damsel aged of 18 years of age who is the very lastdaughter of Ezugwu Ozioko and his wife Oyima Ozioko nee Asogwaowo from a neigbouring village, Umuidu Okani, Owerre Umabor in Ehalumona. The damsel by name Scholastic Ekete Ozioko who today we call Mama, could not withstand his love advancesand so she fell in love with him and accepted his marriage proposal the very first time he met and proposed to her. That was the time in history when love was not fake and pretentious. Love then was genuine, blunt and real. It seemed that there was a cross breeding of the “Ozioko” from Papa’s maternal sure name with the “Ozioko” in the paternal sure name of Papa’s newly found love which steadied the feelings by the two love birds. I could recall mama narrating how papa had visited her house one fateful day and after spending some time asked her to see him off. It was in the course of this that Papa asked her if she would marry him. Mama who hardly even know what marriage was all about then, accepted his proposal instantly and without hesitation. Papa later told me other qualities that propelled his decision to ask for mama’s hand in marriage, but that will be a story for another day. Their love story continued to grow in leaps and bounds until Saturday 6th October 1973 when they tied the knot in the catholic church with their wedding celebrated at the then St Mary’s Station of St Anthony’s parish Isienu Nsukka. Their wedding was officiated by Rev Fr J.U Mbah C.S.SP of blessed memory in the presence of Emmanuel Omeje and Pauline Omeje whom they chose as their marriage sponsors, both of whom are still alive, hale and hearty today. The bond of relationship that continued between Papa’s family and their marriage sponsor’s family, the Omejes will be a story for another day. Suffice it to say that Emmanuel Omeje by my recollection played very vital roles in the lives of our family.
Papa and his wife, remained faithful to their marriage vows by sticking to each other, in sickness and in health, in suffering and in joy until now that death has set Papa apart. Did this marital union produce any fruit? Yes of course the fruits of this union started coming as Papa and Mama cohabited from one place another in search of greener pastures. How? One might seek to know.
THE FAMILY JOURNEY
After the marriage between Papa and Mama, Mama joined Papa at Okparigbo Ibagwani where Papa lived and thought at Central School Okparigbo. Theirmarriage yielded its first fruit during their cohabitation at Okparigbo in 1974 with the birth of their first son whom they Christened Ifendiso, who today is the man we all come to know as Dr Ifedinso Aloysius.
Shortly after this, Mama got her first teaching appointment at Neke Iheka in 1976, Papa joined Mamaat Iheka and their cohabitation gave rise to the second fruit of their marriage with the birth of their second son. The birth of this second son became a reassurance to Papa that God of all creations has purposed him indeed to be great in reproducing the male children which was in short supply to his late father and so they christened their second son Chijioke (God of all Creation) whom today we all come to know as Engr Chijioke Victor. Growing up, Ifedinso and Chijioke were mistaken to be twins. The reasons for this would be a story for another day.
Two years later, Papa and his wife relocated from Iheka, to the main Ibagwa Ani town that was in 1978. Papa continued to do exploits with his sports talents as evident in the Certificate of participation at the Nsukkka Local Government Area Sports Committee Football Coaching Clinic which was issued to him in 1978 as a Teacher at Community Primary School Ibagwa Ani (Certificate attached). In 1979 he also bagged a General certificate of education, ordinary level. With this feat he was offered employment via a appointment dated 4th October 1979 wherein he got appointed in the permanent establishment of Anambra state sports council (Appointment later attached). These landmark achievements were not his only achievement at Ibagwa Ani. His cohabitation with Mama at Ibagwa Ani also resulted in the birth of the third child of their marriage. This time, the heavens decided to mix the stock by giving the couple a female child. But it did appear that Papa had wanted another male child instead. Reading the expressions in his heart, Mama told him not to worry because greater are the sons that they would have in future, it must be for this reason that the girl who happened to be only girl child of the marriage was christened Nkeiruka (meaning the future is greater). That Nkeiruka is today the wife of Dr Frank Amadi whom we have all come to know as Mrs Amadi Nkeiruka.
The future indeed became greater with males children for the couple that they didn’t have another female child after Nkeiruka. Two years later, the Couples relocated from Ibagawni to to Nsukka following the Transfer of Mama to Owere Umabor Primary School Ehalumona. Mama also got admission to the Teacher’s Training College Nsukka and the couple lived at Army Barracks Nsukka where Mama pursued her programmeabout the year 1981. In the course of their cohabitation at Nsukka, God blessed them with their fourth born with demonstration of the Supremacy of His Power and promise of greatness upon them and they christenedhim Ikechukwu. That is the man that is known today as Barr Ikechukwu Maximus.
After Mama had completed her TTC programme, Papaand his family relocated back to their home town in stayed in their village, at Amagu Umabor Ehalumona.It was at this point that papa and mama with their meager salaries built the first structure, an eight –room bungalow where we all lived and grew up.
Believing indeed that the power of God shall see him through, Papa decided to go for a higher academic pursuit, this time he headed for his University Education. By a letter dated 27th April 1982, from the then Anambra State Sports Council via the Director of Sports J.NC Ilo, the Council granted Papa a four years study leave without pay with effect from 1st December 1981 referencing his letter on the subject dated 4thNovember 1981. Don’t forget that at the time , papa already had four Children and the fourth was barley about 9 months then. Undaunted by the family challenges of how he will finance his education and cater for his expanding family needs, he took the bold step of taking a study leave without pay and headed to the University of Nigeria Nsukka, where studied Physical Education within the said four years and bagged a degree with honours on 14th day of December 1985 (Certificate attached)
Papa’s contributions to Sports while in the University was so immense that in 1985, the Physical and Health Education Students Association (PHESA) Avan Ikoku College of Education Owerri awarded him a Certificate of Merit in appreciation and recognition of his invaluable selfless service and corporation to Physical and Health Education Students Association (PHESA) Avan Ikoku College of Education Owerri in 1985, wishing him life of inspiration to others. (Certificate attached)
Now settled at his Amagu Village, God blessed the couples with four more sons as their 5th, 6th , 7th and 8thchildren. The fifth was named Ugochukwu in expression of the fact that God has indeed crowned them with their heart desires. He is the man whom is known today as TPL Ugo Hillary. The 6th was named Kenechi in expression of the couple’s thanks to Godfor His favours and goodness upon them. He is the man whom we have come to know today as Rad Kenechi Bethrand. The 7th was christened Akachukwu for indeed the couples saw the hand of God upon their lives. God’s hand did not depart from him indeed as he became the one chosen by God of all papa’s sons to serve Him in His vineyard as His priest forever after the Order of Melchizadek . He is the Rev Fr Akachukwu Christian that we have come to know today. The 8th and the last born was named Tochukwu in praise to God for all He had done and is still doing for the family. He is the Barr Tochukwu Valentine we have all come to know today. How else can one described a man who was so richly blessed with the gift of children, A medical Doctor, An Engineer, A lab scientist, two Lawyers, a town Planner, and Reverend father. This quantum of greatness was never entrusted by God to even the great zik of Africa who was Papa’s idol. Saying that Papa was a greatman is an and understament. He was and still remains an enigma to me each time I ponder how he managed to ruffle through life to get the family to the stage we are. Sure you would like to hear more about this, just read on.
A TOUGH TIME FOR THE FAMILY
For every blessing of God, there is a corresponding responsibility. Such was the case with Papa’s family between the year 1989 to 2015. That was the period when Papa had to train his children in the secondary school and Higher Institutions simultaneously . It was such a tough moment for him having to pay the fees of three of his children in the University including that of mama who was undergoing her undergraduate programme in the University at the said period and about three in the Secondary school. I could remember how passionate papa was in ensuring that all of us , his children got the best education. He spared nothing in sending us to the best schools while going hungry. The physical and psychological stress he went through with mama at that point was better seen than imagined. The wake they kept at night in idle retrospection of how to see the children through in school, the hunger they bore was excruciating, the humiliation of having to borrow in extreme cases, I can go on and on. The pains they passed through was enormous. I could still remember the few families that lend their helping hands occasionally to papa and mama then. In nostalgia I can still recall that food we used to call “fertilizer” and the popular family slang, ‘Fertilizer siri ike ma na ofe adiro”. My elder brothers, Dr Ife and Engr Chijioke can tell you more about this.
But in all these, Papa persevered. He was undaunted, he was a strict disciplinarian whose exerted his energies in coaching, teaching, directing, advising, guiding each of his children to the paths of theirrespective life endeavours where they found themselves today. The surprising thing about Papa is that he did not just concentrate on his children alone, he was a source of inspiration to as many other children that came across him boosting their morale for academic pursuits and bringing his philosophy of Education as the highest human investment to bear upon them. No wonder today we have continued to receive great testimonies of many great men who in expression of their condolence messages to us have continued to narrate the vital roles papa played seeing that they went to school. Education was papa’s industry. He lived it, he demonstrated it, he gave all for it and today we are the evident of the good products of that industry.
Papa, Continued to excel in Sports and all aspects of his endeavor that he bagged a Commendation Award by then Anambra State Sports Council for his outstanding contributions towards Sports Promotion in Anambara State. (Certificate Attached). He worked as the Sports Organizing secretary in virtually all the Local Governments in Nsukka Zone. By a Notification of promotion dated 6/2/2005 he was promoted to Deputy Director Sports (Organization) effective from 1/7/2003. This was the position he held until 2009 when by his own Letter of Retirement notification dated 5/5/2009 which he addressed to Director of Sports Enugu State Sports Council, he notified the council of his retirement on the 16th of November 2009.
LIFE AFTER RETIREMENT
Papa retired from Civil Service honourably in 16thNovember 2009 to enjoy his retirement. But did he really enjoy his retirement? Lets find out.
Papa devoted his life after retirements to service of God in the Church and in service to humanity. Recognizing the peculiarity of his gift as an excellent counselor who helped many to make peace with themselves and with one another, he was selected for recognition and indeed issued with Certificate of Recognition as Traditional Chief of Ehalumona Community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State by Chief Charles Aniweta Abangwu CON , the Ezeigwe of Ehaluomana with the chieftaincy title of Ezeudo of Ehalumona on 31st December2009. He was instrumental to several dispute reconciliations in the community both and at different family level. It was this stride that earned him the name Ezeudo which he later adopted as his Chieftancy title during his coronation as a member of the Cabinet of Late Igwe Charles Abangwu.
Papa also joined the noble Order of Knights of St Johns international in his quest for service of God as a member of His armies , in defence of the Church, truth and Justice. As knight of the Church his Sports acumen continued to reverberate as could be seen in the second Regiment Sports Convention of the Knights of St John’s which issued him a Certificate as the 2nd Position in 4×4 Relay in 2010 (See the Certificate attached)
He various positions in the Church and was instrumental to creation of the St Paul’s Parish Umabor and in laying of the foundation of the parish church building. He later became the pioneer first Vice chairman of the Parish. A position he held till he died.
That was not all Papa’s unquenchable thirst for formation of the young one made him take up appointment as a pioneer principal of Our Savour College, Ebor Umabor. An institution that has today started producing great men and women in different field of endeavour who passed through papa. He gave the School his very best that even in his last days while on the hospital bed in Enugu, he kept thinking of his students and how his absence would affect them. Little did he know that he will not live to behold them again as he did return to them alive.
GREATEST REGRET
In all that papa lived and stood for, in all his achievements and sufferings, my greatest regret was that he was really celebrated as he deserved. Papa was to turn Eight by next year, 2022 and was to Celebrate his marriage golden Jubilee in 2023. We were all looking forward to those date to celebrate him for once. The eight room bungalow where papa lived and raised us was pulled down in the course of renovation and Papa insisted that the building be replaced with a mansion that can accommodate all of his children. He had insisted that we finish the structure as according to him, that was the only place that can unite all of us irrespective of wherever we decide to build our separate houses in the village. He spent his meager pension in acquiring the building materials little by little such that his efforts saw the building to an unimaginable level. We were all looking forward to completing the building before the celebration of his eighty years birthday and Golden jubilee but death struck. How could we have known that papa would died that soon. That is why it grieves our hearts that Papa never really lived to be celebrated. He never really lived to get his well deserved rewards from us. He completed his assignments in our training no doubt but did not stay to receive his due rewards. Those who thought that at 79 papa was old to die never really know him. He was young at heart, full of energy, retire but not tired, mentally sound and alert, well coordinated and vivacious, how death managed to snatch him away remains a shock to us.
In December 2020, we had the first ever family meeting involving all papa’s children and their wives. It is still evergreen and indelible in our minds how Papa expressed his joy for the family reunion in such a language that suggested that he knew that his death was imminent. That was the first and last of such reunion. The first quarter of this year, Papa suffered the first bout of the illness that took him to Enugu, where was given the usual medical attention by his children who are experts in different fields of medicine. He recovered and went back home in March 2020. Within a space of two months, the second bout of the illness struck him again. He was taken to Enugu where he was given the best medical care by all but God had the final say as it pleased God to call him to eternal rest on that fateful Wednesday, 19th day of May 2021 around 7pm. This was how the Ezeudo (the King of Peace) rested in peace. May he continue to rest in Peace until we meet to path no more.
]]>WHAT IS VICILOOK ?
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At Vicilook we created a slogan which says “We Own and Care For Every Local Community”, which includes both the tangible and non-tangible constituents of any community, this is why Vicilook is both a Social Enterprise ( Click HERE to know more about Vicilook as a Social Enterprise ) and a For-Profit Enterprise, as it’s mission is solely to bring development to the grassroots of any undeserved or underdeveloped community via interconnecting everyone with everything in that community at no cost basically and only makes profit when premium services or features are needed by its users, especially in already developed or developing communities.
There is a popular saying that “The World Is A Global Village” which is widely accepted, but we have come to believe that for it to be a fully functional and efficient village, the grassroots or the foundation needs to be properly connected and inter-twined in order to produce a very strong foundation for the building of a very strong and efficient global village.
Due to this belief of ours, we have come to discover also that many local communities are poorly connected and we believe also that it’s as a result of poor and closed access to credible local and grassroots information or data, which creates a blanket of darkness, is why many local communities and countries are very under-developed, therefore, we can all agree that credible information can give anyone proper guidance to make effective or informed decisions and forge ahead in the right direction, as our Founder would always say “Ignorance is the mother of Darkness”.
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Lack of Access to Verified Local Information:
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THE SOLUTION
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15. VICILOOK E-GOV: Bridges the gap between government and citizens by providing real-time updates on projects, policies, and services.
16. VICILOOK ROADPATH SCANNER: Allows users to scan QR codes or Vicilinks at the entrance of roads or pathways to access information about businesses, events, and promotions in that area.
17. VICILOOK FARMERS MARKET: Connects users with verified local farmers for direct trade.
18. VICILOOK JOBS: Post and Access verified local jobs.
19. VICILOOK COMMUNITY FACTS: Post and Access Academic Researches that impact local Communities directly and finally translates as ‘Community Facts’ or ‘Community Knowledge’ which can help community leaders create impactful policies and political decisions.
20. VICILOOK VICINITY UPDATES: This new feature on Vicilook enables people to follow a location they are in, like on Twitter people follow people but on Vicilook, you follow locations, for example, if you are in Anambra state, you can follow Anambra state and see updates when people in Anambra post updates for Anambra vicinity. This novel and innovative feature enables anyone to know what is going on in their states or town as well as helps anyone talk to the people following the state or town that they posted an update on.
WHAT SETS VICILOOK APART ?
It’s the First ever Hyper Localized Socio-Directory Technology.
– Focuses on Verified, Location-Specific Data: Vicilook offers trustworthy information, helping users quickly find what they need while ensuring the credibility of local businesses and professionals.
– Creates custom localized solution for various important niches used by the local man or woman in any community.
-Provide a very affordable way for anyone or organization to create a quick online presence with tailored features we call ViciPlugins.
– Comprehensive Services for Diverse Needs: From Product Security, digital academic offices and yearbooks to real estate and art galleries, Vicilook serves individuals, institutions, and professionals across multiple sectors.
– Community-Centered Impact: Vicilook is designed to support community development by improving access to information, enhancing transparency, and helping local economies grow.
The Demand for Reliable Local Information;
Digital access is expanding rapidly, particularly in emerging markets where people are increasingly relying on mobile and online services. However, these communities still lack a centralized, trusted source for local information. Vicilook taps into this demand by providing essential, location-based data and services, making it invaluable in areas where information is scarce.
– Advertising: A premium feature that allows businesses to promote their services directly on Vicilook’s platform or via various notable social networks.
Vicilook As A Social Network:
Yes, Vicilook is also considered a social network, but with a unique focus on real physical geographical localities and community engagements.
Unlike traditional social networks like Facebook or Twitter, which emphasize on global connections, Vicilook prioritizes interactions within a specific vicinity which people look into and then connect with, virtually, interacting with real people in a given real geographical location via a virtual means.
It allows users to:
– Connect with people, businesses, and services nearby.
– Share updates, events, and activities within their local community.
– Discover and engage with local opportunities and resources.
Because of these features, Vicilook functions as a ‘Hyperlocal Social Network, facilitating meaningful connections based on geographical proximity rather than just personal relationships or interests.
Current Success and Future Goals;
Vicilook has already gained traction with a growing user base and partnerships. We’ve completed several key development phases and are preparing for further expansion, including new markets and additional platform features. Key milestones include:
– Launch of core platform and initial user adoption.
– Strategic partnerships with local businesses and institutions.
– Product roadmap for enhanced functionality and reach.
Vicilook’s Edge in the Market;
While other platforms offer local directories or specialized listings, Vicilook’s comprehensive, multi-sector approach is unique. By focusing on community development and verified information, we stand out from general service directories. Our targeted, localized platform offers a level of trust, inclusivity, and impact that broad platforms don’t provide.
OUR TEAM
Our team is led by Dickson Cliff Okechukwu, an entrepreneur with a vision for community empowerment through digital solutions, backed by a diverse team with expertise in technology, community development, and business operations, we are passionate about connecting people and driving local growth, locally and globally.
Join Us in Empowering Communities;
Vicilook is more than just a platform—it’s a movement to improve access, transparency, inclusivity and growth in local communities. With your investment, we can extend Vicilook’s impact, making local resources accessible to all and fostering a stronger sense of community.
COMMUNITY & GLOBAL IMPACT:
Vicilook impacts communities and the world in whole positively by fostering local connections and making essential resources more accessible. It helps small businesses and organizations gain visibility, encouraging economic growth and supporting entrepreneurs. By centralizing information about services, events, and opportunities, it enhances community engagement and makes it easier for people to stay informed.
Additionally, Vicilook supports education and culture by promoting schools, cultural events, and artistic projects, helping communities preserve and celebrate their heritage. It also improves local safety and efficiency, providing tools for navigation, resource discovery, and clear communication within neighborhoods. Overall, it builds stronger, more connected, and resilient communities.
Because it focuses mainly on transforming communities in several profound ways by bridging communication gaps, improving accessibility, and fostering economic, cultural, and social development. Here’s a comprehensive overview:
1. Enhancing Access to Local Resources:
Vicilook simplifies the discovery of essential services, such as healthcare, education, and government resources, within a community. By aggregating this information on one platform, it eliminates the need for individuals to search multiple sources. Residents can quickly locate nearby services, making life more convenient and reducing the barriers to accessing critical needs like schools, clinics, and local businesses.
2. Supporting Small Businesses and Local Economies:
The platform provides a cost-effective way for small businesses to promote their services and connect with customers. By offering tools like digital storefronts and interactive directories, Vicilook helps small enterprises gain visibility, attract more customers, and grow sustainably. This economic empowerment strengthens the local economy and fosters entrepreneurship by reducing the reliance on expensive marketing methods.
3. Strengthening Community Engagement:
Vicilook serves as a hub for local events, announcements, and initiatives, bringing residents together and fostering a sense of belonging. Through its accessible platform, individuals can participate in community-building activities, volunteer programs, and cultural events, enhancing social cohesion and mutual support among community members.
4. Promoting Education and Cultural Awareness:
The platform plays a significant role in promoting education by showcasing local schools, training centers, and academic resources. It also preserves and promotes local culture by highlighting community events, art galleries, and historical landmarks, ensuring that cultural heritage is celebrated and accessible to everyone.
5. Encouraging Transparency and Governance:
Vicilook bridges the communication gap between local governments and citizens. By providing a space for government updates, policies, and programs, it fosters transparency and accountability. This improved communication enables communities to stay informed about changes and participate more actively in governance.
6. Improving Safety and Navigation:
With tools like the Vicilook Locator and QR-based navigation, residents can easily find accurate information about businesses, services, or even streets. This reduces the risks of misinformation, helps users plan efficiently, and improves overall safety in unfamiliar areas.
7. Fostering Sustainability:
By connecting local businesses and organizations with their immediate communities, Vicilook reduces the need for long-distance travel to access goods and services. This localized approach supports sustainable living practices, strengthens neighborhood ecosystems, and encourages residents to shop and support locally.
8. Encouraging Innovation and Digital Inclusion:
Vicilook introduces communities to innovative digital tools that make their lives easier. From virtual directories to event management features, the platform promotes digital literacy and inclusion, helping even technologically underserved areas gain access to modern solutions.
9. Creating Employment Opportunities:
By enabling small businesses and individuals to promote their services, Vicilook indirectly creates jobs and business opportunities. As businesses grow and more people use the platform, the demand for local talent and services rises, contributing to the community’s overall prosperity.
10. Building Resilient Communities:
Overall, Vicilook strengthens communities by connecting people, promoting local resources, and providing a platform for collaboration. It fosters resilience by ensuring that even in times of need or emergency, community members can quickly find the support and resources they require.
In Conclusion:
Vicilook is not just a technological innovation; it is a catalyst for community-driven growth and empowerment. By prioritizing accessibility, inclusivity, and connectivity, it creates stronger, more vibrant, and self-sufficient communities that thrive together.
FEATURES DEMO
Images, illustrations and texts below shows Vicilook Offers some of its current services to various sectors of our society;
Vicilook Places:
Find and connect with things, people, data and info available in any current vicinity you find yourself in. This is mostly used by legit businesses of any size, Offices, notable open place and organizations of any kind.
Vicilook Product Security:
This is another tech or feature of Vicilook that helps build and solid innovative security for manufactured or imported packaged products. Click HERE to know more about this innovative feature.
FASTCHOW & AFRICANA INDOOR VIEW
Vicilook Restaurant Menus:
Restaurants can digitize their Food and Drinks Menu by launching the page for it, to easily enable customers scan a Vicilook QrCode, visit a VLink or simply Google the Restaurant Menu and see it.
NOTE: This menu can be edited and managed in Real-Time to enable customers see the latest and accurate info on their Food & Drinks Menu, which includes, Drinks, Foods & their Prices.
Also, customers can drop their opinions about the Food or Drinks at the bottom section of the Menu page.
References :
FastChow – Vicilook.com/am5
Finotel- Vicilook.com/tpy
OCO Academy School – Vicilook.com/k7h
Livingword Comp Sec School – Vicilook.com/pjz
Mandy B Lux Salon Awka – Vicilook.com/7xy
Ibiza – vicilook.com/b8n
Vicilook Campus Xplorer:
This helps students find and connect with any spot, building, person and info on campus, making their stay on campus easy and seamless.
References:
ANSPOLY- vicilook.com/LyM
PAUL UNIVERSITY – vicilook.com/7bD
Vicilook Academic Office:
This solution helps Academic Staff and any other staff in the University and other tertiary institutions to have an online virtual office that helps them relate to students just exactly how they will do in a physical office, as well as give lectures, help students submit their academics works, get lecture notes and majorly help these Academic staff display all their Academic papers from various parts of the internet, on a single manageable page, by themselves with ease.
References:
vicilook.com/EEM – for ANSPOLY STAFF
vicilook.com/Qne – to see Prof Omeje of UNN
vicilook.com/3A1 – to the Provost of Nwafor Orizu
Vicilook Arts:
This is an innovative tech that helps artists sell setup and manage a seamless Virtual Art Gallery as well as sell them to buyers in up to 2 years installments.
Reference:
vicilook.com/rSC – Michael Okoye Art Gallery
or Simply Google ‘Michael Okoye’s Art Gallery’
Vicilook Books:
This connects you with Books and it’s Authors, enabling these Authors to sell their books, get their books visible and findable via popular search engines like Google, authenticate their ISBN and get readers connected directly to the Authors.
Reference:
vicilook.com/F1W – Books by Ugwu Collins Ikenna
Google ‘Books by Ugwu Collins Ikenna’.
Vicilook DICDAL (Digital Church Directory And Lectionary):
It helps anyone find, connect and verify any religious Priest and Church branch in your vicinity. This is done directly with Religious bodies and not with individual priests in order to promote authenticity and validity of public info on Priests and Churches.
vicilook.com/wgm – Nnewi Diocese Priests
Vicilook.com/yyQ- to see DCC Nnewi
Vicilook.comiQ5 – too see all Nnewi Diocese Churches
Vicilook YearBook:
This is one of Vicilook’s favorite tech and features, which enables Secondary schools and Colleges to show publicly students that graduated, when and how from their Schools, enabling anyone to verify and authenticate who attended what school, when and the nature on which they graduated from the given School. Students can simply Google their names or the ‘Grad Class Year’ to see the profiles of every student in that Grad Year.
Reference:
UNN psy class of 2023- Vicilook.com/evf
LCSS Class of 2023 – Vicilook.com/7zQ
Vicilook Product Security:
This is another tech or feature of Vicilook that helps build and solid innovative security for manufactured or imported packaged products. Click HERE to know more about this innovative feature.
Reference:
Visa products – Google 6159753547226 to see visa brake fluid dot 3.
Vicilook Events:
This service helps you to post local physical events online via wonderful features on Vicilook such as;
i. Being able to upload and create a digital version of any paper info material such as a Brochure, such that the event organizers can enable the invitees to have a digital copy of such event material and view it via their mobile devices, simply by scanning a Vicilook QrCode or visiting the ViciLink with their Phone browsers, thereby saving you so much money in printing books and also saving our trees, climate and the planet.
ii. An event page via Vicilook gives you the capacity to get feedbacks from your attendees immediately after the event is over via the same event page, thereby enabling you to know what they anonymously think about your Event.
References:
Mama Nsukka – Vicilook.com/uaQ
Funeral – vicilook.com/d6i
Vicilook Lawyerz:
Simply to help you find and connect with verified Lawyers in your current vicinity or beyond.
Vicilook Markets
This service simply helps you discover the nearest open community market closest to you and provides you with all the contacts of the local market traders in that market.
Vicilook Property:
This service enables you find and connect with all real estate properties in your current vicinity or beyond in the most innovative way, by not just showing you only the available properties but mainly all the verified properties in that vicinity, giving secured access to the property manager and very secured means to either obtain on lease, purchase or rent a property without having the need to see anyone.
Vicilook Realtor & Real Estate
Use Vicilook to find ‘VICILOOK VERIFIED’ Real Estates and the Registered Realtors that market and manage them. See images below;
Google Search Result:
Reference:
PWAN Staff- Vicilook.com/btL
Vicilook Restaurant Menus:
Restaurants can digitize their Food and Drinks Menu by launching the page for it, to easily enable customers scan a Vicilook QrCode, visit a VLink or simply Google the Restaurant Menu and see it.
NOTE: This menu can be edited and managed in Real-Time to enable customers see the latest and accurate info on their Food & Drinks Menu, which includes, Drinks, Foods & their Prices.
Also, customers can drop their opinions about the Food or Drinks at the bottom section of the Menu page.
(e.g. of a Restaurant Menu Sticker)
(Google Search Result View)
Reference:
Google ‘Food Menu In Awka’
FastChow – Vicilook.com/w4u
VICILOOK E-GOV:
This new feature of Vicilook bridges the gap between the people and the government, thereby enabling the people to find, discover, track and connect them with all the government’s ongoing programs, projects, policies and events in real-time.
It also helps the government get feedbacks from its people based on individual geographical locations and communities to help build a stronger, more sustainable and very efficient community development.
This also help document the progresses of various communities in terms of infrastructural, economical and social developments over a given period in time, it can also be used for Academic researches and various forms of researches for obtaining valid and current data or info.
Any government adopting this tech can also use it to provide valid showcase and lifetime documentation of its current achievements or past one as its tenure expires in office and its data can be used for further forms of researches and archiving of historical info.
Reference:
Governor Soludo’s project – vicilook.com/AJj
VICILOOK RoadPath SCANNER:
The Vicilook RoadPath Scanner is a beautiful innovation, invented by Vicilook’s Founder and CEO, Dickson Cliff Okechukwu.
According to OpenAi’s ChatGPT, It’s the first of its kind in the world, which enables people to scan a qrcode or enter a Vicilink (Vicilook Shortlinks) on a board at the entrance of a road, street, pathway, etc, or, to enable you see all the Businesses, News, past / current Events, Deals, Promos and every info you need to know about that vicinity, helping you make proper decisions and to save time and energy.
See samples below;
VICILOOK VICINITY UPDATE:
Vicilook’s new Vicinity Updates feature transforms how you connect locally, anywhere in the world. It lets you post updates that are seen only within a specific local area, while also allowing you to follow updates from any vicinity globally. To see a specific location’s updates in your feed, simply click the ‘Follow’ button next to that Vicinity’s name. This unique system ensures you’re always getting highly relevant, meaningful local information for personal discovery, business growth, or strengthening community ties.
VICILOOK’S COMMUNITY IMPACTS
Vicilook impacts communities and the world in whole positively by fostering local connections and making essential resources more accessible. It helps small businesses and organizations gain visibility, encouraging economic growth and supporting entrepreneurs. By centralizing information about services, events, and opportunities, it enhances community engagement and makes it easier for people to stay informed.
Additionally, Vicilook supports education and culture by promoting schools, cultural events, and artistic projects, helping communities preserve and celebrate their heritage. It also improves local safety and efficiency, providing tools for navigation, resource discovery, and clear communication within neighborhoods. Overall, it builds stronger, more connected, and resilient communities.
Because it focuses mainly on transforming communities in several profound ways by bridging communication gaps, improving accessibility, and fostering economic, cultural, and social development. Here’s a comprehensive overview:
1. Enhancing Access to Local Resources:
Vicilook simplifies the discovery of essential services, such as healthcare, education, and government resources, within a community. By aggregating this information on one platform, it eliminates the need for individuals to search multiple sources. Residents can quickly locate nearby services, making life more convenient and reducing the barriers to accessing critical needs like schools, clinics, and local businesses.
2. Supporting Small Businesses and Local Economies:
The platform provides a cost-effective way for small businesses to promote their services and connect with customers. By offering tools like digital storefronts and interactive directories, Vicilook helps small enterprises gain visibility, attract more customers, and grow sustainably. This economic empowerment strengthens the local economy and fosters entrepreneurship by reducing the reliance on expensive marketing methods.
3. Strengthening Community Engagement:
Vicilook serves as a hub for local events, announcements, and initiatives, bringing residents together and fostering a sense of belonging. Through its accessible platform, individuals can participate in community-building activities, volunteer programs, and cultural events, enhancing social cohesion and mutual support among community members.
4. Promoting Education and Cultural Awareness:
The platform plays a significant role in promoting education by showcasing local schools, training centers, and academic resources. It also preserves and promotes local culture by highlighting community events, art galleries, and historical landmarks, ensuring that cultural heritage is celebrated and accessible to everyone.
5. Encouraging Transparency and Governance:
Vicilook bridges the communication gap between local governments and citizens. By providing a space for government updates, policies, and programs, it fosters transparency and accountability. This improved communication enables communities to stay informed about changes and participate more actively in governance.
6. Improving Safety and Navigation:
With tools like the Vicilook Locator and QR-based navigation, residents can easily find accurate information about businesses, services, or even streets. This reduces the risks of misinformation, helps users plan efficiently, and improves overall safety in unfamiliar areas.
7. Fostering Sustainability:
By connecting local businesses and organizations with their immediate communities, Vicilook reduces the need for long-distance travel to access goods and services. This localized approach supports sustainable living practices, strengthens neighborhood ecosystems, and encourages residents to shop and support locally.
8. Encouraging Innovation and Digital Inclusion:
Vicilook introduces communities to innovative digital tools that make their lives easier. From virtual directories to event management features, the platform promotes digital literacy and inclusion, helping even technologically underserved areas gain access to modern solutions.
9. Creating Employment Opportunities:
By enabling small businesses and individuals to promote their services, Vicilook indirectly creates jobs and business opportunities. As businesses grow and more people use the platform, the demand for local talent and services rises, contributing to the community’s overall prosperity.
10. Building Resilient Communities:
Overall, Vicilook strengthens communities by connecting people, promoting local resources, and providing a platform for collaboration. It fosters resilience by ensuring that even in times of need or emergency, community members can quickly find the support and resources they require.
In Conclusion:
Vicilook is not just a technological innovation; it is a catalyst for community-driven growth and empowerment. By prioritizing accessibility, inclusivity, and connectivity, it creates stronger, more vibrant, and self-sufficient communities that thrive together.
- We are making local communities smarter and self sustainable by helping the inhabitants share local information that will help them make better decisions.
- We are helping government of communities both Local and State level make better policies via data generated from those communities based on the online activities of the people.
- Improving the economic status of communities by helping them discover and receive detailed info on opportunities that fits their trade and profession via data derived from trade activities on Vicilook.
- Improving the academic and research based institutions in those localities by providing them with data and info insights based on works which transcends to facts that would be used for research citing.
- Improving transparency and bridging equality in community based on providing anyone with info needed to carry out proper and smart actions and moves.
- Fostering sharing and easy communication among people and in any community.
- Helping anyone discover ‘Who’ and ‘What’ is within their reach and how to access it with ease and convenience before thinking of extending farther beyond their current locality.
- Using smart algorithms and AI to help people in a locality manage basic resources, based on ease of accessing these resources, the efficiency and convenience of ‘When’ and ‘How’.
- Improving security of communities by helping them analyze the safety of various areas of a community, based on facts and news derived from various areas and how the security agency has tackled or resolved that situation. This would also help security agencies (formal and informal) get tips from both anonymous and identified persons in that community.
- Innovate and digitize the activities of communities and improving on every aspect possible of that community using various forms of ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’ technologies tailor-made for the present and future of that community, thereby having the capacity to predict the future of that community.
Vicilook’s singular Goal is to integrate people seamlessly with any vicinity they find themselves in or are interested in, by helping them obtain any info or data that society can offer, locally, freely and transparently.
It is like a directory of important and interesting things in a given geographical location, which you can connect socially with and as well as get updates and valid data from.
Login and check the left menu to see more wonderful things you can do with Vicilook.
VICILOOK’S COMPARISONS WITH SIMILAR TECHS & THE EDGES IT HAS OVER THEM
Vicilook vs Google-My-Business
(According to OpenAi’s ChatGPT)
Vicilook vs Yelp
(According to OpenAi’s ChatGPT)
Vicilook vs Nextdoor
(According to OpenAi’s ChatGPT)
Vicilook vs YellowPages
(According to OpenAi’s ChatGPT)
