By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
The National Council for Arts and Culture ( NCAC) is to parley the National Council for Women Society , NCWS) to debut a new cultural brand platform that will empower vulnerable Nigerian women for national development.
This parley was reached when the newly elected executive of the NCWS led by Hajia Lami Adamu paid a courtesy visit to NCAC headquarters in Abuja.
The new NCWS President Adamu said that the visit to the Culture Council was to introduce the newly inaugurated executive of the Women Society to the Director General, Otunba Runsewe who has been a pillar of support to the Women Society in areas of skills acquisition, capacity building and empowerment and also seek areas of further collaborations.
She stated that the new executives is proud to identify with Otunba Runsewe who has positively projected the image of Nigeria both at home and abroad within the Culture and Tourism sector and also working assiduously to transform Nigeria’s rich and diverse cultural heritage into a viable economy.
Hajia Adamu disclosed that the new leadership of the NCWS has commenced a strategic roadmap for achieving the vision of the council for the next 5 years.
These according to her include Promoting women in leadership and Governance, Promoting economic empowerment of women, Child protection and girl child education and Building an effective and efficient NCWS as a valued partner for promoting the gender agenda.
The NCWS president solicited for a strong collaboration with the NCAC to enable the women society achieve its lofty programmes and take vulnerable women off the streets.
The Director General, National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Segun Runsewe congratulated Hajia Lami Adamu as the 15th President of the NCWS expressed delight over the visit which according to him will open new vistas for collaborations for the NCAC and NCWS to empower Nigerian women and fortify the future of the girl child.
Meanwhile Runsewe decried the fast eroding cultural values in the society which has led to juvenile delinquencies and borrowed Western cultures.
“As Women, the onus is on you to begin a campaign to rescue our youths and the girl child from the claws of westernization and alien cultures and inculcate in them good moral principles and the true Nigerian Culture. ”
Runsewe who doubles as the President of the World Crafts Council, African Region urged the Women Society to make a bold statement and redouble their efforts in sensitizing mothers to be mindful of the schools they send their children as a high percentage of immorality, rape cases and gender based crimes originate from the school environment.
He reiterated the urgent need for the new leadership to hit the ground running given the onerous task ahead of them and promised to keep his doors open for collaborations and necessary support to make the NCWS achieve its desired objective.
He announced that the NCAC and the NCWS will midwife a brand that will empower vulnerable women and build capacity among them.
