Christina Ibrahim Deshi Wins Culturally Best Dressed Female, As FCTA holds World Cultural Day

By Genesis ogiri, Abuja 

Mrs. Christiana Ibrahim Deshi, Winner of the 1st position, Culturally Best dressed female,  at the World Cultural Day, organized by the Department of Arts and  Culture , Social Development Secretariat  FCTA has called on Nigerians to celebrate the country’s cultural diversity, describing it as a source of strength and unity.

Newsway Africa Media reports that the prestigious ceremony which took place at the Cyprian Ekwensi Center for Arts and Culture Area 10, in Abuja. 

The event attracted dignitaries from all walks of life to grace the occasion 

In her statement while speaking with Newsway Media at the 2024 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development (World Culture Day), Christiana Ibrahim Deshi emphasized the need to appreciate and promote Nigeria’s diverse cultural heritage. 

She urged Nigerians to take pride in their culture and recognize its potential to drive economic development, social and mental wellbeing, and national unity.

The Winner noted that the country’s plurality of culture and ethnicity should be leveraged to promote dialogue, understanding, and peaceful coexistence, rather than allowing differences to divide us. She encouraged Nigerians to see their diversity as a source of strength and unity, rather than a source of conflict. 

“The World Culture Day is an opportunity to remind and help us to understand the value of cultural diversity and the vital role it plays in ensuring peaceful co-existence as a vital tool for socio-economic growth and development.

“It is a day for deep reflection on where we are as a nation. Taking into cognizance that our dear country is characterized by plurality of culture and ethnicity, it behooves on us to change the narrative on people who are culturally, ethnically and religiously different from us, in order to curb terrorism, kidnapping and banditry and other negative vices as we forge ahead as one people with a common goal”. 


“I call on all Nigerians to present our culture with with deep pride and appreciation and encourage us to continue to see our diversity as our source of strength and unity from which we can build a progressive nation for us all”.

Mrs. Ibrahim Deshi thanked the organizer for careful looked at her  appearance,  promised to continue representing the Angas's Nation.


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