President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated the commitment of the federal government to the reorientation of cultural norms and values to enhance national unity and boost the economy of the country.
The National Institute For Culture Orientation (NICO) has therefore developed a workable training programme, with a theme-’fixing Nigeria: a cultural perspective’ to sustain the teaching and learning of Nigerian languages to allow for collective unity and integration.
President Buhari who represented by the Senior Special Assistant to the president on National Assembly matters (Senate), Senator Ita Inang during the graduation ceremony of the PGDCA 2016 trainees of the cultural orientation programme of NICO, said language and other cultural values were signs of identity for a people that enhance unity and rapid development.
Inang stressed that imbibing of cultural values would enhance the national economy. He charged the culture orientation agency to embark on wider research to inculcate indigenous norms into the people. He also advocated for inclusion of cultural languages in the school curriculum.
The Executive Secretary of NICO, Prof. Barclays Ayakoroma noted that imbibing cultural values which include dressing, dancing and speaking dialect was a way of bringing together the diverse ethnic nationalities in the country.
According to Ayakiroma, there was urgent need to offer awareness because many people in the country have abandoned their indigenous languages and culture to foreign ways of living which, he said has brought disunity and underdevelopment.
