May 27: Teach children Nigerian cultures – Analysts advise parents

Analysts person emphasised the request for Nigerian parents and different elder citizens to thatch their children, wards and the younger procreation Nigerian cultures and traditions.

The discussion, on a vigor programme, Let’s Talk Nigeria connected Sparkling FM successful Calabar, is portion of activities to people the 2026 Children’s Day, and to punctual parents and guardians of the imperatives of encouraging their children to cognize much astir their roots and practices.

The discussants cautioned against allowing modern technological influences to wholly overwhelm the younger generation, to defender against wholly erasing ancestral practices handed down to succeeding generations.

The pb discussant, Dr MacFarlane Ejah, enforcement manager of the International Training, Research and Advocacy Project (ITRAP), and different contributors insisted that Nigerian children should beryllium linked backmost to nativity, traditions and cultures successful bid not to let specified to spell extinct.

Ejah said, “Nigerian children should beryllium taught the values of section cultures. They should beryllium made to recognize the disadvantages of allowing overseas cultures and influences to regenerate long-held and cherished section cultures”, helium said.

Other phone-in callers, including Mrs Virginia Akpan, a housewife, and Es...