The rich cultural heritage of the Igbo was on display on October 10 as Igbo community in Lagos celebrated this year’s New Yam Festival. CHINAKA OKORO was there. For several hours on Saturday, October ...

Every year, the Nwachukwu Drive in Okota Isolo Local Council Development Area, witnesses cultural activities as the Igbo in Lagos gather to celebrate the new yam festival. This year, the ceremony held ...

And to depict its prominence, "The New Yam Festival" is celebrated to thank the gods of good harvest. Being an important event in the calendar of Igbo people all over the world, the festival usually ...

COMMUNITIES in Igbo land are gearing up for the celebration of the new yam festival. This is a festival so much cherished and revered by Ndigbo. Igbo attach a lot of importance and respect to yam and ...

Organisers of the highly-anticipated Igbo Day/New Yam Festival in Ghana have announced the postponement of the 2025 event, which was originally scheduled to take place on September 21, 2025, at the ...

The Iriji Igbo, new yam festival of the Igbo people, is practised throughout Igboland, West Africa, especially in Nigeria-Ghana, and even beyond the African continent; whereof the people celebrate ...

A cultural clash is brewing in the capital as the Ga Traditional Council has issued a stern warning against the planned celebration of the Igbo New Yam Festival in Accra, citing fears that the event ...

The Igbo community in the Diaspora, Ghana Chapter, says it is set to host the annual Igbo Day/New Yam festival on Sept. 19, in the country. The Eze Nd’Igbo of Ghana, Chief Chukwudi Ihenetu, said in a ...

The Umu Igbo Brandon Association — a group from southeastern Nigeria — celebrated its second Cultural Day and New Yam Festival on Saturday afternoon at the Victoria Inn. As we navigate through ...

Igwe E.A. Mbanefo, the Ozuruoha II of Orsumoghu, has marked this year’s New Yam Festival with an in-house celebration at his residence in Lokogoma, Abuja. At the event, Igwe Mbanefo emphasised the ...

Some Traditional authorities and prominent personalities in Ghana have urged Ghanaians to respect and acknowledge the culture of other countries especially the Igbo New Yam Festival and see it as a ...

Ugo Ferdinand Ukwueze, the chairperson of Igbo-Eze South Local Government Council of Enugu State, has called for the preservation of the New Yam Festival and other Igbo cultural practices. He made the ...