BETTING ON IGBO YOUTH, FOR THE FUTURE OF WIC
By Ugorji O. Ugorji
In March 2009, the current chairman of the World Igbo Congress, Ichie Chibuzo Onwuchekwe, introduced UMUADA to WIC during a Board. And in 2010, at the 16th Annual Convention of WIC hosted by Nzuko NdiIgbo of South Jersey, I integrated UMUADA in the programs of the convention like has never been done before in WIC, surrendering the Cultural Night partially to our beautiful and result-oriented sisters.
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NdiIgbo and the Nigerian Presidency: The Campaign for 2015 Must Begin
By Ugorji O. Ugorji
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
On March 28, 2009, the World Igbo Congress, which is the umbrella organization of the Igbo outside Nigeria, did me the great honor of inviting me as its keynote speaker during its First Quarter Board Meeting. During that presentation (Ugorji, 2009) I posited, among other things, that a Nigerian patriot of Igbo ethnicity will be elected President in 14 years. And in 2010 I followed that presentation up in Mbari: The International Journal of Igbo Studies, with prescriptions for repairing what I referred to as the “amputation of the Nigerian soul” that was manifest in the pogroms against the Igbo and the monumental fratricide of 1967-to-1970 (Ugorji, 2010).
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16th Annual WIC Convention: Crunch Time Players
First published on September 4, 2010
By Damian Ike Ekezie
In the game of life, just like in the game of basketball, when there are only seconds to go and the game is on the line, a few players in history would get the ball. Michael Jordan met such challenges when he got the ball. Magic did as well. Kobbi, LeBron, Emeka Okafor and a host of others answered such calls with equally magical results for their respective teams. And in American football, when the game is on the line and the ball is in Joe Montana’s hand, he would look for Jerry Rice. In every game, there are crunch time players and big time performers. You don’t buy it. You don’t wish it. You either have it or you don't.
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NDIIGBO, PDP, AND NATIONAL RELEVANCE:
The Urgent Need for a Consequential World Igbo Congress
By Ugorji O. Ugorji
The word reaching us here in the U.S. is that the Peoples Democratic Party, after receiving over 5 million votes delivered by governors and people of Igbo states in the Southeast, has decided to reward NdiIgbo with the inconsequential and personal position of Secretary to the Federal Government. Wow! The largest ethnic group in Nigeria, with over 40 million people who can be found in every Local Government Area in Nigeria, has been told that they will not be Number 1 (President), or Number 2 (Vice President), or Number 3 (Senate President) or Number 4 (Speaker of the House of Representatives). Even the position of the Chairman of the party has been pissed away in an intra-ethnic wrangling that is not dissimilar to what we have endured in the World Igbo Congress.
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Education of the Igbo in the 21st Century:
Revisiting the report of WIC's Education Committee
Ugorji O. Ugorji
In the current gubernatorial contests in Nigeria, incumbent PDP Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State and Chief Rochas Okorocha of APGA have made education the centerpiece of their spirited and very close contest to occupy government house for the next four years. Back in 2002 the World Igbo Congress Board of Directors constituted the first WIC Education Committee, with the following charge: "Work to revitalize the educational system in Igbo Land. This committee will work in concert with the various ministries/commissioners of education in all the five states in Igbo land (including Delta and Rivers) and the State governments. They will also serve as liaisons with the major universities, polytechnics and other organizations in the various states. Projects will be implemented in direct working partnership with the various Ministries of Education and universities in Igbo Land."
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