Invest in developmental culture to enhance youths, women potential – Prof. Abere

Omeiza Bilal

The College Provost of the National Defence College (NDC), Abuja, Professor Ahmed Abere has advocated for investment in developmental culture that could bring out the potential in youths and women in Egbira.

He started this during the launching of the maiden report produced by the Area 10 Elite Forum’s annual get-together and lecture series.

Abere observed that culture has gone beyond just a way life, he said it’s now a multi billion naira industry in Nigeria and across the globe, he said, Egbira has uniqueness in everything they do, be it in culture, fashion and what have you.

Alluded to Professor Sunday Ododo’s position on masquerade outings, he stress it that indiscriminate way of masquerade outings in Kogi Central is an abuse of the said culture, and it has no place in history, if there is deliberate efforts to preserve what we adopted as culture.

The Professor of history and book reviewer highlighted the important segment of the report, which emphasised on economic development of the Kogi state, particularly the central part of the state.

He commended the organisers for the wonderful initiative by bringing together numbers of brilliant professors from various institutions across the country to come and deliberate, proffering solutions on a very important topic of how to curb and mitigate moral decadence in our society, through the promotion of rural economy among women and youths in Egbira land.

He noted that this kind of engagement should be sustained and that the policy makers at the state level should be involved.

The representative of Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo, Abdullahi Ozomata equally commended the forum, according to him, having participated from the beginning of the program to the end, he will deliver the the message and lessons learnt from the various speakers to the Governor and promised that the government will respond positively to all the recommendations.