The National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) is set to sensitize Nigerians on the need to take advantage of its rich cultural heritage towards achieving the nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in a public lecture, scheduled hold in Abuja.
The Acting Executive Secretary of NICO, Mr Louis Eriomala disclosed this through his Media Assistant, Mr Caleb Nor in a statement issued to journalists.
According to the statement, the lecture to be delivered by the Dean, Faculty of Arts, Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State, Professor Victor Dugga will bother on“Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria-The Culture Dimension”.
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The statement further stated that exploring the cultural dimension of sustainable development goals will not only showcase the need to put culture at the front burner in developing the nation but also promote our culture, making Nigerians look inward than outward to develop the country as other countries of the world have done.
It reads in part “NICO is organizing this lecture in furtherance of its mandate of effecting a sense of cultural direction and relationship and meeting the challenges of social integration, unity, peaceful co-existence, self-reliance, and national development”
“The NICO public lecture series was conceptualised as a vibrant quarterly programme to serve as a platform for intellectual discourse on culture; sensitize Nigerians to the strategic importance of culture in the promotion and sustenance of good governance and our nascent democracy; effect a sense of cultural direction in the citizenry to better appreciate the need for Nigerians to embrace our culture, cherish its inherent values and accord it a pride of place in all aspects of our development agenda”.
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