HISTORY OF THE FORUM NEWSPAPER
The Forum Newspapers was initially created in the 1980s during the episcopacy of Most Rev. Gregory O. Ochiagha with the title: “Orlu Diocese Today”. It was published and circulated as a newsletter with Late Very Rev. Fr. Damian Opara as the coordinator but later stopped publication.
Later on, precisely in 1994, publication resumed but this time as an official newspaper of the Diocese. Rev. Fr. Boniface Duru became the pioneer editor-in-chief of the Newspaper and it was a monthly publication. Bishop Ochiagha named it “THE FORUM”, drawing inspiration from St. Paul’s mission at Ephesus where the people established a forum for sharing ideas, and dialogue to get to the truth. The Bishop, therefore, gave the motto “RALLYING FOR THE TRUTH”.
In 2007, while Rev. Fr. Maurice Emelu was the editor, The Forum Newspapers won the Best Catholic Newspaper of the Year.
With the purchase of some printing equipments under the leadership of Rev. Fr. Maurice Emelu, the printing department of the Forum Newspapers was established and named the “N-Trinity Press”. The N-Trinity Press became the official publishers of the Forum Newspapers.
All these while, the Forum Newspaper was located at Knight of St. Mulumba Hall, situated beside the Diocesan Catholic Secretariat within the premises of the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Orlu. Later in 2014, under the leadership of Rev. Fr. Cyriacus Uzochukwu, the Forum Newspaper moved to its permanent site at the Archangel Gabriel Media Centre located beside the Orlu Cheshire Home opposite Orlu Stadium.
On the 10th of March, 2021, the Forum Newspaper was separated from the N-Trinity Press making both two separate entities with two separate leaderships.
Presently, the Editor-in-Chief of the Forum Newspapers is Rev. Fr. Anthony I. Añumnu, succeeding his predecessor, Rev. Fr. Kenneth Obialisi.
