Don’t let our language, culture die – Abia Govt urges  Igbo nation

The Abia State Government has appealed to the radical of Abia State and different South-East states to bash everything imaginable to prevention the Igbo language, civilization and past from dying.
The authorities authorities made the entreaty connected Thursday successful Umuahia during the Canvas and Culture Festival organised by the Ministry of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy.

The Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, Matthew Ekwuribe, portion addressing secondary schoolhouse students and different participants astatine the store and exhibition, said the Abia State Government was doing everything imaginable to guarantee that the Igbo language, civilization and past bash not dice but are preserved and strengthened.

He observed that immoderate young radical of Igbo extraction are incapable to explicit themselves successful the Igbo connection oregon show cognition of the culture, but said the authorities authorities had taken steps to forestall specified a inclination from taking basal successful Abia.

The commissioner said bold steps had been taken by Governor Alex Otti’s medication to rehabilitate the Civil War practice sites, including the Ojukwu Bunker, the National War Museum and different taste and humanities sites successful the state.

Ekwuribe besides said the Arts and Culture Festival was designed to observe aboriginal creator talents successful the state, adding that it would assistance tackle unemployment among young peopl...