World Igbo Congress

Local Industries may well hold the key to our future

WIC Leadership: Hope for our future?

World Igbo Congress now enjoys a purposeful leadership. This leadership owes it to our people to engender peace and promote development of the Igbo in all spheres as enshrined in the purposed of the congress.

WIC-WFAC at the UN

WIC is committed to the ideals of the CSW which is instrumental in promoting women’s rights, documenting the reality of women’s lives throughout the world, and shaping global standards on gender equality and the empowerment of women. WFAC has brought the message home to Igbo land. Here Iyom Chii Ezekwueahe address a session at the UN in New York

Igbo Leadership at a WIC Convention

We really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for our kids. The Leaders (traditional and government) must provide appropriate leadership. OKE OSISI DAA, UMU NNUNU EJU OHIA

Agriculture is our life

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves. Igbo leaders must provide for these. We must plan to feed ourselves in Igbo land or our future is doomed. We were once renowned for palm produce. ONYE AJURU AJU ONA AJU ONWE YA?

Local Industries may well hold the key to our future

A great proportion of the Igbo are importers, manufacturers and manufacturers’ representatives. We might as well begin to seriously take advantage of this especially in unapologetic support of our local manufacturers. Innoson Group of Companies is one such establishment. Here are Innoson cars on the assembly line right inside Igbo land

Ijele Masquerade

In the rich culture of Igbo land, masquerades play key roles in maintenance of law and order as well as entertainment in our traditional society. Here an Ijele, in its full splendor, entertains the people

Ground breaking Ceremony of Regional Medical Center of Excellence project at Ojukwu Conference Center Owerri August 14, 2015 Read More..

2Ist ANNUAL CONVENTION - SEPTEMBER 3 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2015. DETROIT, MI. Hosted by Igbo Community Association of Michigan (ICAM) Read More..

WIC-WFAC POST CSW59 Global Women’s Summit in Boston, MA JUNE 19 - 21, 2015 - Nwokem iso kwa Project Read More..

WORLD IGBO CONGRESS MOURNS THE PASSING OF Senator Uche Chukwumerije - Oke osisi ndi Igbo Read More..

The peace and unity of the WIC family is a key feature in the 2015 Convention in Detroit MI Read More..

World Igbo Congress (WFAC) had a parallel event at CSW59 Conference in New York March 9 - 20, 2015 Read More..

WIC Chairpersons Since 1994

WIC-WFAC at UN CSW59

WIC WFAC in action

WIC Affiliate Cities

Boko Haram, Chibok Girls and Nigeria

We join the good people of the world in condemning, in unequivocal language and tone, the despicable and criminal act perpetrated by Boko Haram in kidnapping over 200 girls from their school in Chibok, Northern Nigeria. What those girls have gone through and continue to endure in more than a month in captivity is hard to imagine, talk less of comprehending. It is our ardent wish and prayer that they are recovered soon and reunited with their families for the arduous task of repairing the damage this episode would have done to their psyches.
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WIC WFAC Post CSW59 Event in Boston

A. Friday June 19, 2015 5:00PM-9:00PM; Reaching out to men and boys in the Community on the UNCSW59 Outcome, HEFORSHE UN-Women Campaign and WIC Clarion Call on “NWOKEM iso Kwa”. WFAC will provide education on the work and projects of WFAC to the Community. B. Saturday June 20, 2015 8:00AM-3:00PM: BWBF Global Women’s Summit: Inter-Women Dialogue,20years of Beijing, Picturing Humanity and Stepping it Up for Women C. Saturday June 20, 2015 7:00PM-1:00AM UN Widows Day: Theme: Picturing Global Community and Stepping it Up For Widows and Widowers: Flagging the Campaign on WIC Million Igbo Women WIC Movement to Bring Home Igbo Daughters and Sons of the Trans-Atlantic Voyage in their commitment to the United Nations Decade of People of African Descent D. Sunday June 21, 2015: Prayer Service for Igbo Widows and Widowers. Meeting and Thank You Reception of WFAC and Local Organizing Committee Click to read more and be part of it. Post-CSW59 Boston

Ohanaeze Congratulates WIC and Diaspora Igbo

IGBO NEED TO WORK TOGETHER

The president-General of Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo, Gary Enwo Igariwey, has sent a congratulatory message to the World Igbo Congress and all Diaspora Igbo on the launching of the new website of WIC. He used the opportunity to express his satisfaction and that of Ohanaeze with WIC in bringing the awareness of the happenings in the home land to our people in the Diaspora. He said that although Ndi Igbo have individually achieved enviable heights they are yet to harness these successes for the collective good of our people. He indicated that this is the driving force of the thoughts of his administration as it strives to make Igbo land better. He called on all Diaspora Igbo to work towards a common goal for our people.

WIC’s Boys and Girls Clubs for Alaigbo High Schools

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At the Launching in Owerri[/caption] The World Igbo Congress has launched a grassroots campaign as part of its overall strategic program TO RESTORE THE DIGNITY OF THE IGBO. The campaign called BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB has already been launched in Aguleri, Anambra State and Owerri, Imo State, targets the young ones in high schools throughout Igbo land and is intended to redirect them in the interest of the future of Igbo land. WIC is working with States Ministries of Education for this purpose. WIC is currently seeking support from the United Nations through the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) and Fund for Documentation of Good Practice in Girls’ Education and Gender Equality (UNGEI) and UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UNTFEVAW).

World-Class Medical Center for Igbo Land

World Igbo Congress is charting a bold path, through building a Regional Health Center of Excellence to fulfill this long yearning and aspiration of our people. With over 200 health professionals in different specialties, health centers in North America and Europe, and investors desirous to bring affordable health care close to the people, WIC will build a 150 bed Specialty hospital, Schools of Pharmacy, Nursing and Allied health and technology.

WHO ARE NDI-IGBO (THE IGBO)?

The origin, anthropology and ethnography of Ndi-Igbo, though fairly documented, is largely speculative, including suggestions of Igbo Jewish heritage (as one of the lost Jewish tribes or descendants) based on the industry and cultural orientation of Ndi-Igbo. A giant of American diplomacy, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, once described Ndi-Igbo as “the wandering Jews of West Africa …. gifted, aggressive, Westernized; at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by the mass of their neighbors in the Federation.” Henry Kissinger, Memorandum For The President, Tuesday, January 28, 1969 [Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume E-5, Documents on Africa, 1969-1972].

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Medical Center FUND

World Igbo Congress has initiated a Regional Medical Center of Excellence for Igbo land. The land is in the kitty. Pursuit of infrastructure development is on. The architectural rendition is in hand. Donations are pouring in since the project has ignited a mass movement. Be part of it. Prof. Obi Nwakanma has blazed the trail. Atty. Ken Okorie is on his heels. You must join. Ozo Igbo ndu, Chief/Engr Arthur Eze has given a great boost. Every Igbo must join. This is only the initial seed money. The project will be funded as a business model. Donate here! The framers of WIC dreamed right. This administration picked up the gauntlet. DONATE HERE

$100,500

Target, $2,000,000

Hospital Ground-breaking

With the less that optimal performance of health care system in Nigeria leading to unnecessary deaths and loss of wealth in Igbo land due to medical tourism, World Igbo Congress has rallied the Igbo wealth of health care professionals in the Diaspora to introduce a new hospital concept focused on telemedicine built on outpatient services while maintaining critical emergency and acute care services. This model is unique because of the availability of world-class physicians abroad and locally who will provide an array of specialty services not otherwise available locally.