Month: August 2013

UI Theatre @ 50 Kicks Off

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Celebration of UI THEATRE ARTS DEPARTMENT @ 50 began yesterday at the Dominican Community Campus, Samonda, Ibadan. The three-day conference on the theme, THEATRE IN THE AFRICAN ACADEMY, rolled...

With the Convocation, NICO Has Shown It Is Achieving Its Mandate – Stakeholders

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Stakeholders in the culture sector in Nigeria have described the 1st Convocation Ceremony of NICO Training School as a remarkable event, saying they are proud of the Institute because...

We Will Showcase Our Knowledge On Culture – Best NICO Training School Graduating Student

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Graduands of the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) Training School have expressed their determination to effectively showcase the knowledge of Nigerian culture and its administration they had obtained...

Notting Hill Carnival 2013 – The Police Dance Too!

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Notting Hill Carnival 2013 has come and gone with its rich display of Caribbean culture – music, food, and dance; and even the police got involved, as revellers cheered...

NICO Attends Osun Osogbo Grand Finale

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The National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) joined other stakeholders and pilgrims to witness the electrifying closing ceremony of the internationally-acclaimed Osun Osogbo festival, on Friday, August 21, 2013....

Notting Hill Carnival 2013 Ends With Fanfare

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Over two million people expectedly enjoyed the sights and sounds of this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, the largest street festival in Europe, which was first held in 1964 by...

Akure People Celebrate Aeregbe Festival

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Business activities at the ever-busy Oba Adesida Market (Oja-Oba) in Akure, the capital city of Ondo State, was on Wednesday, 21 August, 2013, closed as the people held this...

Oil Exhaustible, Tourism Inexhaustible, Says Edem Duke

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The Honourable Minister of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation, Chief Edem Duke, has called on Nigerians to look at Tourism as a viable alternative to oil, in the country’s...

PGD Scholarship: Graduate At 80 Appreciates Edem Duke

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Pa Alimi Amodu, the graduate at 80, who had indicated his intention to register for the Postgraduate Diploma in Cultural Administration programme of NICO Training School, Lagos, has expressed...

Nollywood As An Instrument For Nigeria’s Cultural Diplomacy

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Nollywood As An Instrument For Nigeria’s Cultural Diplomacy: Reflections Of A Cultural Administrator By Professor Ayo Akinwale Dean, Faculty Of Arts University Of Ilorin At 4th Edition Of The...