section_path: Months and meanings/Ọnwa Mbụ
section_name: Ọnwa Mbụ
paragraph_text: Ọnwa Mbụ
  
  The first month starts from the third week of February making it the Igbo new year. The Nri-Igbo calendar year corresponding to the Gregorian year of 2012 was initially slated to begin with the annual year-counting festival known as Igu Aro on 18 February (an Nkwọ day on the third week of February). The Igu Aro festival which was held in March marked the lunar year as the 1013th recorded year of the Nri calendar.