{"id":41735,"date":"2021-03-26T08:47:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T08:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=41735"},"modified":"2021-03-26T08:47:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T08:47:30","slug":"lai-mohammed-advocates-cultural-restructuring-as-panacea-to-nations-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=41735","title":{"rendered":"Lai Mohammed advocates cultural restructuring as panacea to nation\u2019s challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Lai-Mohammed.-.jpg\" alt=\"My ministry will create over two million jobs in three years \u2014Minister Lai\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says cultural restructuring is a gateway to the nation\u2019s development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said this at the quarterly public lecture series organised by the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) on Thursday, March 25, in Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Represented by Mrs Meimunat Idula, the Director, International Relations, Lai said that no meaningful development could take place in the absence of an indigenous cultural approach to issues affecting the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis lecture is indeed a platform positioned not only to help the institute achieve its mandate of cultural sensitisation, but also to discuss on topics that serve as a focus for orientation in cultural matters for decision makers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe topic of today\u2019s lecture is important, considering recent happenings in the polity brought about by indiscriminate assimilation of foreign cultural elements into our cultural life, which has threatened the very fabrics of our co-existence as a people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He, however, noted that indiscriminate assimilation of foreign cultural elements into indigenous cultural life had intensified the crisis in the society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Malam Ado Yahazu, the Executive Secretary, NICO, said the public lecture series was conceptualised as a vibrant programme that would provide a forum for intellectual discourse on culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yahuza added that it was a programme designed to sensitise Nigerians on the importance of culture in the promotion and sustenance of good governance and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe topic of today\u2019s lecture is not only apt but also timely, we need to be reminded that there is no culture future without culture because culture is pertinent to the development of any society,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says cultural restructuring is a gateway to the nation\u2019s development. He said this at the quarterly public lecture series organised by the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) on Thursday, March 25, in Abuja. 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