Institute Urges Nigerians To Harness Cultural Diversity For Development

National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) has called connected Nigerians to harness their affluent taste diverseness for nationalist development.

The telephone was made successful Abuja yesterday by the enforcement secretary/CEO of NICO, Otunba Abiodun Ajiboye, during a one-day seminar with the theme, “Ethics, Values and Management of Cultural Diversity successful Nigeria”.

Ajiboye stressed the value of embracing and celebrating Nigeria’s divers taste practice to foster unity, beforehand economical growth, and heighten planetary competitiveness.

“The taxable of this seminar does not lone resonate with our quest for nationalist improvement but besides presents a unsocial level for dialogue, reflection and collaboration for america to research the challenges and opportunities successful promoting ethics, values and taste diverseness successful Nigeria.

“This is precise cardinal successful our quest for development, and we indispensable marque deliberate efforts to locomotion backmost and instrumentality power of our civilization with implicit respect to execute the nationalist improvement we yearn for,”Ajiboye stated.

Therefore, helium urged Nigerians successful nationalist and backstage spheres to clasp taste predisposition arsenic a cardinal pillar of nationalist development.

While delivering his keynote address,Professor Odoma Samuel from Bingham University, Karu,Nasarawa State,noted that Nigeria has not successfully managed the peculiarities of respective cultures successful the country.

“We person not been palmy successful efficaciously managing the peculiarities of the implicit 300 distinctive cultures of the Nigerian State (Achebe, 2012).

“If we are successful, it would person portrayed the spot and quality of Nigeria. The main crushed down our nonaccomplishment is that implicit the years, our cultures person not been perfectly perceived by astir of america that are positioned to task them to outsiders,” helium said.

Odoma added that with the applicable will, Nigeria tin bounce backmost successful taste proficiency to the constituent wherever it tin beryllium utilized to reorganise nine and beforehand nationalist development.