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Nigeria: Nico Admits Students for Indigenous Language
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This Day (Lagos)
22 July 2008
Posted to the web 23 July 2008
Funmi Ogundare
Lagos
No fewer than 100 students have been admitted for training at the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO), Lagos. They are to be trained in the nation's three major indigenous languages which include Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba as well as cultural values.
Executive Secretary of the Institute, Mr. John Bernard who disclosed this recently during the visit of Senate Committee on Tourist and Culture, said the training would commence in August and would last between six to nine months for both certificate and diploma courses.
He added that students would also undergo training in Post Graduate diploma and certificate courses, as well as short term courses that would last for a period of three weeks.
Bernard said the languages Nigerians would enable Nigerians to communicate the values of Nigeria to the outside world where ever they are. "Our language and cultural orientation is what the institute is working assiduously on so as to strengthen and encourage national cohesion among Nigerian citizenry. If every Nigerian child could speak minimum of three national languages, he or she must have that consciousness of thinking of one Nigeria at all times", he said.
He noted that the institute was designed to train Nigerians in their native language and to also train some cultural workers who will sustain the culture and values of Nigeria as a nation. "The structure of NICO is to focus on the training of Nigerian indigenous languages and some cultural workers who will carry the campaign for re-orientation of national values based on indigenous language which is very important for nation-building."
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Bernard added that the vision was to expose Nigeria's culture to diplomats who will carry them to the outside world so that they can appreciate our languages, values and culture
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