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 ...

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 ...

Every Igbo knows one way or the other, it is a matter of time before the language goes extinct. The factors that would lead to these are not farfetched. On many occasions we have tried to bring the ...

The US-based Odenigbo Cultural Club recently held its inauguration /induction ceremony for members in Dallas amid pomp and pageantry. In a video shared online, members and their families, including ...

Vincent Nwosu is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His research interests include prosody, phonetics, verbal arts, and documentation of endangered African ...

Nigerian rapper, Tobechukwu Ejiofor, popularly known as Illbliss, has revealed that he once told musical duo, The Cavemen that their Igbo is flawed. The Cavemen are known for their renditions of ...

Abia State government has said that it will make Igbo language a compulsory subject in its curriculum, to promote the language and save it from extinction. This was made known by the Deputy Governor, ...

Gregory University, Uturu (GUU), Abia State, is to introduce the Igbo language as a compulsory course in the second year. The news was announced at the 6th edition of the Igbo (Uturu) Cultural ...

The Centre for Igbo Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, CIS-UNN, has declared that no effort will be spared in preventing Igbo language from joining its ancestors. The Center, which blamed parents ...

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