World Igbo Congress

Be the change that you want to see in Ala Igbo

Confronting the looming Genocide

Every patriotic Igbo person needs to be at this convention. Register today

Igbo must fight back to survive

Igbo Women Power

Grassroots Mobilization of "WIC Women Power" as WIC braces for Igbo land of the future

Courageous Igbo Women: Changing Igbo world one family at a time

Medical Tourism

Reversing Medical Tourism: Powered by Diaspora Igbo Professionals and Nsokpo Community, Ogbaku

RMCE Project - To provide tertiary medical care

Innoson, the Trail Blazer

Igbo land has the capacity to lead the entire developing countries economically

Igbo Industry

Igbo Youth

We must rescue this generation or be doomed. Our survival and future depend on them

Igbo Youth and Igbo land

A new Beginning

We must come together if we must stave off the impending gloom in our homeland

The challenges are huge and deadly. We must brace up now

Harnessing the Power of Diaspora Igbo

Convention 2019

The 2019 World Igbo Congress (WIC) Convention will be held at Holiday Inn Houston SW-Sugar Land 11160 Southwest Freeway. Houston, Texas 77031, August 30 – September 1, 2019. This convention also marks the 25th Anniversary of the organization. Our theme which captures the essence of Igbo existence in Nigeria and the Future we want is Bianu ka anyi mezie Ala Igbo. We Read More

WIC on Miyetti Allah

WORLD IGBO CONGRESS REJECTS ISLAMIZATION OF THE IGBO IN ANY FORM

World Igbo Congress rejects, in its entirety, the idea thrown up by the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN to set up a vigilante group in the Southeast. Indeed, World Igbo Congress considers this idea as a brazen effrontery. World Igbo Congress calls on all Read More

Biafra Digest

PRESS STATEMENT
RE: Miyetti Allah calls for establishment of Fulani vigilantes in S-East

I condemn in totality, both in letter and spirit the underhand agreement between South East Governors and Fulani terrorists that led to the idiotic call by Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN), the fourth most deadly terror group in the Read More

Killing the Igbo

The Operation Python Dance II, the infamous Arewa Quit notice, the Islamization agenda, the total neglect of Igbo land and the heinous activities of the Fulani “herdsmen” in Igbo land are recent reminders of our pain in Nigeria. The sheer deliberate, elaborate and systematic nature of the execution of Igbophobia is blood cuddling. Total fulanization and Islamization is the new threat Read More

What We Do: Our Commitment to WIC and Igbo Project

Hospital System Project

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Restructuring Imperative

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Next Generation

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2018 Convention

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Welcoming Board Meeting

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Fulani Menace

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Legal Issues

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Women and Family Affairs

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Topical issues from Ala Igbo and Nigeria

WIC on Miyetti Allah

WORLD IGBO CONGRESS REJECTS ISLAMIZATION OF THE IGBO IN ANY FORMWorld Igbo Congress rejects, in its entirety, the idea thrown up by the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, to set up a vigilante group in the Southeast. Indeed, World Igbo Congress considers this idea as a brazen effrontery and extremely provocative.World Igbo

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02 Jul , 2019

The Documentary

“The Disturbances” is a feature-length documentary film from EthicsDaily.com, produced by Robert Parham and Cliff Vaughn. Released in September 2016, it chronicles the role of Christian missionaries saving lives in Nigeria in 1966 amid tribal genocide. It depicts the fate of the Christian Igbo of eastern Nigeria in the hands of the Caliphate north. The

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12 Jun , 2018

Justice for Innoson

BREAKING NEWS: INNOSON CEO ‘WINS’ AS SUPREME COURT ORDERS GTBANK TO PAY HIM N14BN IN 14 DAYS The management of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) has, on June 7, 2018, been ordered to pay Innocent Chukwuma, chairman and CEO of Innoson Group the sum of N14 billion within 14 days by the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

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11 Jun , 2018

Cattle Colony in Igboland?

A MESSAGE FOR DIASPORA IGBO My people, I come to you first as onye Igbo and second as the chairman of World Igbo Congress, Professor Anthony Ejiofor. Ekene mu unu. Onye na nkeya, onye na nkeya. I come to you with a heavy burden in my heart … the burden placed there by the circumstances

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15 Feb , 2018

Nigeria: A Cattle Colony

A MESSAGE FOR DIASPORA NIGERIANS My people, I come to you first as a Nigeria and second as the chairman of World Igbo Congress, Professor Anthony Ejiofor. I bring you greetings. May it be well with you! I come to you with a heavy burden in my heart … the burden placed there by the

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15 Feb , 2018

Handshake Across the Niger

Leaders of the South West (SW), South East (SE), the South-South (SS) and the Middle Belt (MB) among a teeming populations of citizens from these areas met in Enugu in the erstwhile capital of Eastern Nigeria in the long anticipated “handshake across the Niger” Thursday January 11 and made several observations and resolved as follows:

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13 Jan , 2018

Fulani Herdsmen Again? Benue Massacre

Since the start of the year, Nigerians have been served bloody reminders that Boko Haram is no longer the country’s biggest internal security threat. States in Nigeria’s middle belt have been rocked by attacks from suspected Fulani herdsmen Read More

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13 Jan , 2018

International Igbo Language Day

World Igbo Congress will participate in “The 2018 United Nations’ (UN) International Mother Language Day” celebrations. This is annually held on February 21 to celebrate languages spoken worldwide. It also observes the human right to use these languages. It also uses this opportunity to remember events such as the killing of four students on February

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13 Jan , 2018

2017-20 Administration

RESULT OF 2017 WIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION. Having received the highest number of votes cast in the position they contested, the officers in this photo are the winners of the WIC Executive Committee election held September 3, 2017, during the WIC Convention at Chicago, Illinois, USA. The Electoral Commission congratulates these winners

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06 Jan , 2018

Ikemba Strategic Council

IkembaStrategicCouncil Purpose of this thrust To lay out strategies by the new administration, with the participation of all Diaspora Igbo, to revamp World Igbo Congress in order to enhance the robustness intended ab initio to reposition it for the onerous task ahead for the Igbo Nation. Our Goals To reinstate the operational model of faithful adherence

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30 Dec , 2017

Python Dance Conference Resolutions

RESOLUTIONS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCE OF WORLD IGBO CONGRESS’ STAKEHOLDERS WORLDWIDE HELD ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2017 An extraordinary Conference of over 700 stakeholders of The World Igbo Congress worldwide on Saturday, September 16, 2017 resolved as follows:

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18 Sep , 2017

Giving

TIME FOR ACTION. DONATE BELOW As we write, a second Igbo genocide is under way in our homeland in the guise of the so-called Operation Python Dance II (OPD II), ostensibly intended to quell some perceived societal ills in the area and to abate the peaceful agitation for restructuring of Nigeria under the aegis of

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16 Sep , 2017

Operation Save Lives

TIME FOR ACTION. DONATE BELOW As the October 1, 2017 Arewa Quit Notice date looms, regardless of all suspect pronouncements that it has been rescinded, umu Igbo are fleeing the north in droves. People who have the wherewithal can find their way home when they could. Those who do not have the wherewithal are stuck

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16 Sep , 2017

Arewa Quit Notice

The 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom was a series of massacres committed essentially against Igbo living in northern Nigeria starting in May 1966 and reaching a peak after 29 September 1966. These events led to the secession of the eastern Nigerian region and the declaration of the Republic of Biafra, which ultimately led to the Nigeria-Biafra war.

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15 Jul , 2017

2018 Convention Registration

REGISTER: You can easily register online through this page. Just read the materials and follow the prompts to register. You may register for the entire event or part thereof. ADVERTISE: Promote your product or service to participating attendees to the 24th Annual Convention. Our delegates, over 500 Ndi Igbo from WIC affiliates and professionals and

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09 Jul , 2017

2018 Convention Reservation

Early hotel reservations for the 2018 Annual WIC Convention has opened as an exclusive benefit for early birds. Blocked rooms are limited and may not be reopened once they run out. If you are not a National Connection, You are encouraged to take advantage of the discounted group rates that are going very fast. Embassy

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08 Jul , 2017

Medical Tourism

The goal of the proposed RMCE is to primarily complement what is already on the ground and add value as a port of last resort for the most challenging and difficult medical cases, thus obviating the need for referral abroad as currently practiced. It would aim to provide comprehensive cost effective care in a state

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20 Mar , 2017

Alaigbo Under Siege

By News Express on 05/12/2016 Officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force have in the past 14 months (October 2015 - December 2016) “criminally pocketed not less than N9.13 billion from roadblock extortion in their various roadblocks in the Southeast zone,” rights activists from the zone claimed on Monday morning. The claim was part

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20 Mar , 2017

Convention 2018

The 2018 World Igbo Congress Convention will be held at Embassy Suites by Hilton, 10 Century Blvd, Nashville, TN 37214, August 30 – September 2, 2018. It will be hosted by Igbo Association of Nashville, a staunch affiliate and base of WIC Chairman, Professor Anthony Ejiofor and WIC HOD Recorder Chief Sam Udeh. This will be

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19 Mar , 2017
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Herdsmen or Killers? Enugu Massacre

Bloodbath in Enugu as Fulani herdsmen kill 40 Catholic church,11 houses burnt It’s a national issue, not ethnic —OKOROCHA Cattle owners, not herdsmen, should be questioned—OHANAEZE Overview of the report In a report written by Emeka Mamah, Clifford Ndujihe, Chidi Nkwopara & Chinenyeh Ozor reporting from Nsukka on a situation that threatens every Igbo community

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19 Mar , 2017

Leadership Summit

World Igbo Congress (WIC) proudly announces an Igbo Leadership Summit in Nigeria. Having noted that a majority of the special guests from homeland at the 2016 New York Convention made a very strong request that WIC brings one of her annual gatherings to homeland, the Congress resolved to convene a mega Igbo Leadership Summit in

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19 Mar , 2017

Igbo Marginalization

Recently, the SUNRISE Newspaper published an article title 50 Years After Ironsi: Igbo Still Marginalized – South East Leaders. The article captures a lot of the situation of the Igbo in the Nigerian polity and have been re-echoed strongly by the new Ohanaeze leadership. It now becomes a challenge for all Igbo to unite in

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18 Mar , 2017

Nigeria, Let Kanu go

THE President General of the apex Igbo social-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo, John Nwodo, has said the pro-Biafra agitators, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and MASSOB, by virtue of his position, are his children, and for this reason, if need be, he might even die for Ndi Igbo. He said: “As President General of Ohanaeze,

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18 Mar , 2017

Death Traps in Igboland

Igboland is in danger. She is in search of a soothing balm to rub off all the sours she suffered from her numerous predicaments and woes. Indeed, the litany of the misfortunes buffeting South East states that habor the Igbo communities in Nigeria, is quite legendary. The problems are replete with erosion menace, terrible road network,

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18 Mar , 2017

Igbo Unemployment

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has attributed Igbo youth restiveness to poverty and unemployment, just as he advised Ndi Igbo to close ranks and work in unity so as to speak with one voice in the nation’s polity. Although, coming from a non-Igbo, the articulated fact is incontrovertible. The question is, how do we curb this in

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06 Nov , 2016
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WIC Re-invigorated: What Our People Say

My greatest joy is that, finally Diaspora Igbo on WIC platform is taking a bold and purposeful action in the Regional Medical Center of Excellence project aimed at reversing medical tourism. The Igbo is proud of WIC