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USAID moves to save Igbo language from extinction
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By Steve Oko – Aba; and Ugochukwu Alaribe – Umuahia
The United States Agency for States Department, USAID, has taken a bold step towards saving Igbo and other indigenous Nigerian languages from going into extinction.
Deputy Chief of Party, USAID Nigeria, Dr Mrs Lydia Onuoha stated this when the agency led a delegation to hand over copies of Igbo Early Grade Reading Materials to Abia State Government.
She said that the project which is now in three indigenous languages of Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba was aimed at promoting the early teaching of children with their mother tongue.