Day: December 5, 2012

Archbishop Desmond Tutu laureate of the 2012 UNESCO/Bilbao Prize for the Promotion of a Culture of Human Rights

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UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, has designated Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu from South Africa as laureate of the 2012 UNESCO/Bilbao Prize for the Promotion of a Culture of Human Rights....

Government Reiterates Commitment To Create More Jobs

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The Federal Government has expressed its determination to create more jobs as well as maintain already existing workforce in order to tackle the rising wave of unemployment in the...

Elements from Botswana, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan and Uganda inscribed on UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding

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The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has inscribed four new elements on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. The...

Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage opens its session in Paris

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The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage opened its 7th session at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris today. Intangible cultural heritage encompasses practices and living expressions...

Adieu Sonny Samsom Akpan

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On the 13th of September, 2012, while we were attending the annual conference of the Society of Nigerian Theatre Artists (SONTA) at the University of Calabar, news came in...