BY ORJI ONYEKWERE New yam festival is one of the biggest festivals celebrated by the Igbos of the south eastern part of Nigeria. Igbo sons and daughters from different parts of the world use the period of the New Yam festival to go back home or celebrate it wherever they are exhibiting their
BY EMEKA OKAFOR Eze Boniface Ifeanyi Izuogu, the traditional ruler of Okwu Olokoro Autonomous Community of Umuahia South Council Area of Abia State has revealed that his community abolished the age long traditional offering of libation as one of the rites to be performed to appease ancestral gods to usher in New Yam festival was […]
A Kano High Court has stopped the celebration of the New Yam Festival (Iwaji 2020) in Kano following a court order by Justice Farouk Lawan Adamu. The new yam festival celebrated by the Igbos was halted on Sunday as security officials prevented the organisers from staging the event. Daily Times gathered that the court had […]