In July 2012, WIC was granted "special consultative status" by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
In 1997, the World Igbo Congress Foundation (WICF) was established as WIC's project development arm.
[8] Over the past two decades, WIC has continued to find ways to exert its influence on issues regarding ethnic divisions and conflicts that affect the welfare of Igbo people in Nigeria.
Following the conference, WIC criticized the state of insecurity in Nigeria; alleging that the clashes between nomadic herdsmen and farming communities have worsened the security situation.
[10] In his speech at the convention, Kanu, the leader of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,[11] publicly solicited the help of WIC in its effort to procure “guns and bullets” to fight the Nigerian government.
[14] World Igbo Congress also helps new immigrants integrate into the Nigerian diaspora network in addition to providing support in navigating the U.S. job market.
[16] The case, which challenged Eto on who had the right to act as the president of World Igbo Congress, illustrates many disputes that dragged from an unresolved 2014 chairmanship election.
[18] In a 2008 article, an Abuja-based lawyer, Ikechukwu Ogu, famously described World Igbo Congress as "a jamboree in a foreign land.