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World Igbo Congress (WIC) is a Houston-based sociopolitical organization that promotes the Igbo people's interests in Nigeria. It focuses its support...

Biafran separatists and other Nigerians supportive to his cause. The World Igbo Congress (WIC) declared the arrest "illegal abduction and international gangsterism"...

The Igbo people (English: /ˈiːboʊ/ EE-boh, US also /ˈɪɡboʊ/ IG-boh; also spelled Ibo and historically also Iboe, Ebo, Eboe, Eboans, Heebo; natively Ṇ́dị́...

to the Igbo ethnic group. Debbie Collins, Miss World 2016 Nigeria representative Unoaku Anyadike, Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2015, Miss World 2015 Nigeria...

relevant bodies like Indigenous People of Biafra, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, World Igbo Congress, Igbo Leadership Development Foundation and including present/past political...

A series of massacres were committed against Igbo people and other people of southern Nigerian origin living in northern Nigeria starting in May 1966 and...

Omenala, Odinana, and Omenana (Igbo: Ọdịnanị/Ọ̀dị̀nàlà), is the traditional cultural belief and practice of the Igbo people of south east Nigeria. These...

Emeagwali, P. (1997). Can Nigeria leapfrog into the information age. In World Igbo Congress. New York: August. "Is Nigerian creator of the Internet or a fraud...

Yoruba, and Igbo, respectively formed political parties that were largely regional and based on ethnic allegiances: the Northern People's Congress (NPC) in...

2014-07-13. "E Ifeajuna, old student of Ilesha Grammar School". World Igbo Congress. Retrieved 2014-07-13. Commonwealth Game Medallists (Men). GBR Athletics...

south to lead Nigeria. By 1967, many Igbos had lost faith in Nigerian nationalism and in May of that year, Igbo separatists formed the Republic of Biafra...

of Nigeria, predominantly inhabited by the Igbo ethnic group. Biafra was established on 30 May 1967 by Igbo military officer and Eastern Region governor...

inaccuracies about Igbo heritage. She revealed in her presentation "Igbo bu Igbo" ("Igbo Is Igbo") that she only speaks to her daughter in Igbo, which was the...

pioneered the Yorùbá language novel. Daniel Oròwọlé Fágúnwà was born in Òkè-Igbó, Ondo State in 1903, to Joshua Akíntúndé Fágúnwà and Rachel Òṣunyọmí Fágúnwà...

parties: the Northern People's Congress led by Sir Ahmadu Bello, a party dominated by Muslim northerners, and the Igbo and Christian-dominated National...

ascendancy to power was deemed a conspiracy by the coup plotters, who were partly Igbo and Majors from Yoruba and Hausa sub regions, to pave the way for General...

reluctant to take action against Igbo involved in the coup. Ironsi was Igbo himself and used the more highly educated Igbo in the north to implement the...

more than 10 years before his retirement in 1974. Shaw's excavations at Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria, revealed a 9th-century indigenous culture that created sophisticated...

with the Njiko Igbo Movement, whose purpose is to help secure the presidential seat for a Nigerian citizen of Igbo extraction; an Igbo has only held the...

2019-11-19. "Ihe ị maghị maka nwoke Customs jụrụ ịnara akaazụ". BBC News Ìgbò (in Igbo). BBC News. 18 May 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2023.. Google translation:...