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, ...

Communicating in one’s mother tongue does not indicate that one cannot speak or understand other languages, including the English language. But the interest shown in the deployment of the English ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Army has given its personnel one year to learn and be proficient in the three major Nigerian languages – Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa. “Invariably, by December 2018, all Nigerian Army personnel are ...

A video of some Chinese children learning Igbo language in a school in China has emerged on social media. This video may well depict a strong relationship between the Chinese and South-Eastern Nigeria ...

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 ...