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 ...

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has expressed grave concern over what it called the gradual erosion of Igbo language, culture and values. The organisation therefore called on ...

Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, and former National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh, have called on Ndigbo not to allow Igbo language to go extinct.

On an ordinary day at a junior secondary school in southeastern Nigeria, an Igbo language teacher walks into a classroom and begins the lesson with a greeting. When the learners greet her in unison ...

Igbo women, under the umbrella of the Igbo Women Assembly (IWA), have raised the alarm over the declining use of the Igbo language among younger generations, warning that the language risks extinction ...

Prof. Madubuike says, “Whether you are Yoruba, Hausa or Efik, you must take Igbo as a compulsory subject, in spite of your area of specialisation”. Prof. Ihechukwu Madubuike, Director, Igbo ...

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 ...

ENUGU-AN Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Igboezue International, has stated that the prediction by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, an organ of the UN, ...

The recent statement by Nigeria’s Imo State government making it compulsory to study the Igbo language at all levels of education in the state is one in a string of similar pronouncements since ...