Culture Institute trains corps members at Abuja camp

The National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) has called for the establishment of the Institute’s Indigenous Language Clubs in the National Youth Service Corpscamps nationwide. Executive Secretary of NICO, Otunba Biodun Ajiboye, made the call during the commencement of four weeks free training of the Institute’s Nigerian Indigenous Language Programme (NILP) at the FCT NYSC […]

The National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) has called for the establishment of the Institute’s Indigenous Language Clubs in the National Youth Service Corpscamps nationwide.

Executive Secretary of NICO, Otunba Biodun Ajiboye, made the call during the commencement of four weeks free training of the Institute’s Nigerian Indigenous Language Programme (NILP) at the FCT NYSC Orientation Camp, Kubwa. 

Otunba Ajiboye, who was represented by a Chief Cultural Officer in NICO, Mrs Helen Mfongang, said the training which was being carried out in NYSC Orientation Camps across the country, was to assist corps members understand the language of their host communities during their service year.

 “The National Institute for Cultural Orientation is a parastatal of the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture and the Creative Economy, saddled with the primary responsibility of promoting positive cultural values and harnessing culture for national development,” he said.

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According to him, the Institute also has the mandate to train cultural officers, motivators as well as communicators who would be grounded in Nigerian cultural realities and the Nigerian Indigenous Language Programme (NILP) as a flagship programme of the Institute, which was conceptualized due to the lack of interest and gradual decline of Nigerian indigenous languages, especially among the teeming youths.