Igbo Day in Ghana: Media Executive-MacDonald Njoku to Grace New Yam Festival as Special Guest of Honour

ThankGod Emeh, OWERRI.

Just as the Igbo race celebrates the new yam festival in Igboland to mark the end of cultivation of major farm crops in the land especially the yam as well as marking the successful harvest and commencement of new yam consumption across the Eastern part of Nigeria, a number of patriotic and well meaning sons of the soil in Ghana celebrates the new yam festival on 19th September every year.

Building up to the festival this year which is a month away, the Eze Ndigbo Ghana, Eze Dr  Chukwudi J. Ihenetu with his cabinet has started planning in earnest to add colours to the event which includes sending out invitations to well meaning Igbo sons and daughters world over to grace the occasion.

According to him, the new yam festival in Ghana is basically an exchange of culture and collaboration of various talents and strong friendship among the people.

Eze Ihenetu said the festival “is a beginning of integration of humanitarian efforts especially in a cosmopolitan environment, the education of different food, different weather, different experience, different procedures, and different processes are strong form of education, this is the strong objective of this entire project”

One of the prominent invitees to the 2021 new yam festival being organized by Igbo People in Ghana is the notable publisher of 4Th Estate Reporters, MacDonald Njoku.

The invitation letter reads states that the call for the media executive to attend the event was duly informed by the annual display for community members, to mark the end of the cultivation season, a festival, where people express their gratitude to those that helped reap a bountiful harvest.

The venue of the New Yam Festival is the UNDERBRIDGE LUXE EVENTS ENCLAVE, OFF THE EAST LEGON POLICE STATION ROAD, East Legon Accra.

Time: 12: Noon.

READ THE INVITATION LETTER IN FULL:

“August 10, 2021

HON. NJOKU MCDONALD OBINNA

Honourable,

INVITATION AS A SPECIAL GUEST TO THE 2021 IGBO DAY/ NEW YAM FESTIVAL GHANA

Warm felicitations from Obi Ndi-Igbo Ghana.

0n behalf of the Igbo People in Ghana, I,HRM Eze Dr. AMB. ChukwudiIhenetu, EzeNdigbo Ghana humbly invite you as a Special Guest  at the 2021 Igbo day/New Yam Festival of the Igbo People in Ghana.

As you are well aware, all across Igboland and among the Igbos in the Diaspora the New Yam Festival is a highly captivating art event. The colourful festival is a visual spectacle of coherence, of dance, of joy and feasting, an annual display for community members, to mark the end of the cultivation season, a festival, where people express their gratitude to those that helped reap a bountiful harvest.

Every year for the past nine years, the Igbo People in Ghana have been celebrating the New Yam Festival. Over the years, the festival has attracted all caliber of visitors from traditional rulers, government functionaries and tourists from within and outside Ghana.

The date of the event is Sunday September 19, 2021, at the UNDERBRIDGE LUXE EVENTS ENCLAVE, OFF THE EAST LEGON POLICE STATION ROAD, East Legon Accra; beginning from 12: Noon

I hope Honourable, that you will find time out of your extremely busy schedule to honour us with your presence.

All COVID 19 Protocols will be observed.

For further information or clarifications, kindly call the Palace of EzeNdi Igbo Ghana on +233264421111 or Project Director on +233202659024. www.ezeigbogh.com, info@ezeigbogh.com

Accept my esteemed courtesies and that of the Igbo People in Ghana.

Sincerely,

HRM EZE DR CHUKWUDI J. IHENETU

EZE OHAZURUME 1

EZE NDIGBO GHANA”

 

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