NICO OPENS ZONAL OFFICES

The National Institute for Cultural Orientation(NICO) will this month open offices in four geo-political zones. The offices are to serve as research centres for student academic and others interested in cultural studies.
The zonal offices are in Akure, Ondo State, South West; Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, South-south; Owerri, Imo State, South East and Ilorin, Kwara State, North Central. Two others in Yola, Adamawa State,North East and Katsina, Katsina State, North West will follow soon.
Speaking at NICO head office in Abuja, the Executive Director/CEO, Mr.John Bernard Yusuf, said the take off of the zonal offices will mark another milestone for the organisation which intent on taking to the grassroots the government's seven- point agenda.
With this, NICO has been repositioned to play its role as the engine room of the cultural sector. Last year, it began its training programme in Lagos for the award of certificates and post-graduate diplomas in Cultural Studies. Last month, the head office in Abuja was relocated to a more spacious and befitting edifice to ease operations.