National President, Igbo Women Assembly (IWA), Lolo Nneka Chimezie, has announced IWA’s moves to revive the use of Igbo language in schools and homes towards ensuring that Igbo language does not go extinct in the next six years as predicted by the United Nations Organisation (UNO).
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She spoke to journalists in Umuahia, Abia state capital saying that the event, scheduled to hold on March 21st, 2025 at the International Conference Centre, Umuahia, will bring together stakeholders from all the Igbo speaking states in the country to brainstorm on how to preserve the Igbo language.

“It has become worrisome that most parents, who, though can understand the language, cannot speak in it, which in turn translates to having children who can neither speak nor understand it”

Positing that there was need to find out if Igbo people were still interested in having the language preserved, the IWA President disclosed that a school is being proposed for establishment to begin to teach the children the language early enough and inculcate in them the Igbo culture.