They wore native Nigerian attire, the men in senator shirts and the women in boubous and headgear fanning out like giant halos. The choir broke into an Igbo hymn, helmed by a sonorous voice belonging ...

An Igbo group, Igbo Woman Assembly, IWA, has raised the alarm that the spoken Igbo language may disappear in the next few years if nothing is done. According to the group, the number of Igbo people, ...

AWKA — Igbo women, traditional rulers, and community leaders have called for urgent legislation to protect and promote the Igbo language, warning that decades of neglect could push it toward ...

One of the biggest ethnic groupings in Africa is the Igbo, often known as the Ibo. The majority of Igbo speakers reside in southeast Nigeria, where they account for over 17% of the population. They ...

The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, John Azuta-Mbata, has cautioned that the Igbo language risks extinction if decisive and collective steps are not taken to revitalise it. He gave the ...

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization Ohanaeze Ndigbo has set up a special committee to design a framework for reviving and safeguarding the Igbo language from running out of extinction. President ...

Contrary to speculations that Igbo language would go into extinction by 2050, the Abia State Polytechnic Rector, Sir Allwell Onukaogu, has debunked such report, insisting that the language, like every ...

A Non-Governmental Organisation committed to promoting Igbo language, Igbo Efula, has decried the “ugly trend” where private schools in the South-East, particularly Enugu State, use English language ...

Apex socio-cultural organization of the Igbo, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, on Thursday appointed four professors under its Professorial Endowment Chair initiative to prevent the extinction of the Igbo ...