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http://ift.tt/2rX2aUK Foreign delegates dancing to the tune of the Talking Drum. PHOTO: NAN Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, Director General of the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) says the council will be repositioned for better performance. Runsewe, said this when he welcomed Africa -Nordic Ministers of Foreign Affairs on tour of the Arts and Craft village on Friday in Abuja. The NCAC boss said that the country was blessed with rich cultural heritage and hospitable people. “The NCAC will soon become the Central Bank of Culture in Nigeria and we are definitely going to provide that Nigerian story with greatness. “There are about 600 languages in Africa and Nigeria alone has over 224; so we must start to celebrate our strength as a people. “We should start telling our stories the way it should be told, rather than allow somebody telling them the wrong way; that is part of our strategy. He explained also that visitors should be able to leave the country at the end of...

http://ift.tt/2srRcGz Femi Fani-Kayode Youth For Change NG, an umbrella group of youths committed to enthroning decency in politics, has berated Mr Femi Fani-Kayode over his disparaging tweet against the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday, the group noted that Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, has the penchant for being “uncouth, rude and crude” in public discourse. The statement was signed by Mr Seun Bobade, national leader of the group. It said that the tweet credited to Fani-Kayode when he was reacting to comments made by Mohammed, during a television programme, “is unbecoming of a man who is supposed to be a father figure to all youths.” “We found Mr Fani-Kayode’s tweet extremely distasteful, very disgusting and unbecoming of a man who supposedly had good education. “How can Mr Fani-Kayode censure the young ones, including his own children, if they become uncouth, rude and crude in public discou...

http://ift.tt/2srRcGz Femi Fani-Kayode Youth For Change NG, an umbrella group of youths committed to enthroning decency in politics, has berated Mr Femi Fani-Kayode over his disparaging tweet against the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday, the group noted that Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, has the penchant for being “uncouth, rude and crude” in public discourse. The statement was signed by Mr Seun Bobade, national leader of the group. It said that the tweet credited to Fani-Kayode when he was reacting to comments made by Mohammed, during a television programme, “is unbecoming of a man who is supposed to be a father figure to all youths.” “We found Mr Fani-Kayode’s tweet extremely distasteful, very disgusting and unbecoming of a man who supposedly had good education. “How can Mr Fani-Kayode censure the young ones, including his own children, if they become uncouth, rude and crude in public discou...