way of life as key to fruitful international relations

guidance and lifestyle Minister  Alhaji Lai Mohammed has talked about that probably the most techniques Nigeria can achieve decent relationship along with her neighbours is thru cultural range and better overseas relations. He cited that subculture is key in organising cordial and fruitful foreign members of the family with other countries and it is a component of the developmental agenda of the existing administration that gave the field pioneer status.

Mohammed spoke at this year's quarterly lecture organised by way of country wide Institute for Cultural Orientation tagged way of life as valuable device for international relation, held at the NIIA Victoria Island, Lagos recently.

in keeping with the minister who changed into represented by appearing Director-widely wide-spread CBAAC, Mrs. Ndidi Aimienwamwu, there's an pressing want for 'us to preserve, promote nd current our entertaining cultural heritage for the socio-economic boom and development of our country.'

He described the lecture as apt and well timed as it got here at a time when the govt is worried in entrenching its foreign members of the family with other nations of the area via reinforced cultural diplomacy. "Nigeria's foreign relation policy thrust has been pro-African with important attainment of the simple principles of targets of African unity, independence, decolonisation, peaceable contract of disputes, peaceable co-existence, social integration, non-alignment, regional economic cooperation and development.

'Nigeria's foreign family members ideas are elegant on the existing internal, political financial and socio-cultural realities and present happenings in the foreign neighborhood. In accomplishing these principles the nation participates in actions of the African Union (AU), the financial neighborhood of West Africa (ECOWS) the non-aligned movement, the Commonwealth, the United international locations and contract with friendly countries," he mentioned.

executive Secretry NICO, Mr. Louis Eriomola referred to the lecture became conceptualised as  strategic platform the place the nation can advantage immensely from  the highbrow skills and wealth of adventure of eminent students, well-known cultural administrators excellent government functionaries and different stkeholders.

He pointed out that way of life has been used for overseas members of the family due to the fact ancient times by way of diplomats as they carried messages, delivered their own subculture to international lands and brought lower back overseas ones. This, he talked about, was achieved by means of the typical trade of presents, constantly cultural artefcts. He although stated that up to date day cultural interventions have taken the kind of the establishment of associations similar to Alliance Francaise, the British Council, Goethe Institut, Yunus Emre Institute amongst others which operate equivalent features.

He wired that tradition was additionally used as weapon with the aid of the tremendous powers like US, Russia and Germany.

"tradition can be positively deployed in our international members of the family to create figuring out, promote our country wide heritage and market the Nigerian brand," he delivered.

Eriomola besides the fact that children lamented the misconception many Nigerians have bout lifestyle, which they see s primitive. "Some Pentecostal Christians see it as paganism and accept as true with that the problems of Nigeria started with the hosting of FESTC seventy seven, whereas the greater majority see it as pleasing traveling dignitaries. The 1998 Cultural policy for Nigeria defines way of life as "the totality of the way of life developed by individuals in their makes an attempt to satisfy the problem of living in their atmosphere, which offers order and their social, political, financial and spiritual norms and modes of orgnisation, consequently distinguishing  people from their neighbours," he observed.

in line with him, way of life is past the meals we devour, the language we speak, the clothing we put on, because it is what we're, our existence and cultural heritage, which some have argued is greater than all the mineral materials of  nation put together.