Category: NICO News

Egungun: The Seen Spirits?

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What have you believed about Egungun? That they are masquerades or mere symbolic manifestations of the ancestors or spirits? Or men and boys dressed up in elaborate cloth and...

Ogoja’s Big New Yam Festival

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      The Ikatpang Women’s Association brought a lot of colour to the festival. There was fun in Ogoja during the recent New Yam Festival, with fun and...

Versatility In Indigenous Languages: A Tool For National Integration, Says Imo CP

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The Imo State Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali, has stated that being versatile in Nigerian languages was a tool for national integration, saying the National Institute for Cultural Orientation...

How To Revitalise Culture Sector, By New NCAC Head

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The new Executive Director/CEO of the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), Mrs. Dayo Keshi is taking on her new role faithfully pledging development of the economy through...

Proper Knowledge Of Indigenous Language Enhances The Aesthetics Of Art

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The one-month intensive Nigerian Indigenous Language Programme (NILP) organized by National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO), Minna State Office, has come to a deserving end, Thursday, 11th September, 2014,...

Tourism Stakeholders Meet To Boost Local And International Patronage

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In a bid to reposition the Nigerian Tourism and Hospitality industry, especially as it relates  to local and international patronage, the Federal  Ministry  of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation,...

Ayakoroma Has Made Us To Be In Academic Heaven – University Don

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The Acting Head, Department of Theatre Arts, Niger Delta University (NDU), Amassoma, Bayelsa State, Dr. Christine Odi, has stated that the Executive Secretary of the National Institute for Cultural...

Languages Hasten The Integration Of Nigerians – Mrs. Maimuda

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Nigerians have been told that they could only relegate indigenous languages to the background at their peril, as the fact remains that, learning languages other than one’s own hastens...

The Effects Of Second Language In Developing the Brain Are Significant – University Don

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Dr. Joyce Emuchay of the Department of Languages and Literary Studies, College of Humanities and Management Sciences, Kwara State University, Malete, has said that, the prospects of learning a...

NTDC Boss Backs Promotion Of Nigerian Languages

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The Director-General of Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation, Dr. Sally Mbanefo has urged parents and guardians to ensure that they speak Nigerian languages at every home, saying it is a...