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<p>The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission
(NCPC), Reverend Tor Uja has said that Africa could overcome her
language barrier with good language policy. He disclosed this in Abuja
during a dinner in his honour by the Cote d’voire Ambassador to Nigeria,
Her Excellency, Nee Toure Maman.</p>
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<p>He stressed the need for the intervention of both Nigeria and Cote
d’Ivoire governments to strengthen the language policy to incorporate
both English and French in their language policy to ease communication
and strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries and other
countries in Africa.</p>
<p>He assured his host that he would embark on spiritual visit to Cote
d’Ivoire with some of his management staff to explore some of the holy
sites in the country.</p>
<p>He stressed that the time had come to break the language barrier with
Cote d’Ivoire, adding that there was need to take bold steps to address
language issues in Africa.</p>
<p>Reverend Uja explained that for Africa to come together there was
need to overcome language issues and overcome territorial boundaries.</p>
<p>He commended African countries for the stabilisation in their
political growth and development through stable democracy which
according to him encourages political parties to develop good
programmes.</p>
<p>He affirmed that Africa has enough resources for everyone to be comfortable if the resources are used judiciously for the people</p>
<p>Speaking, the Cote d’Ivoire Ambassador to Nigeria, decried a
situation whereby money meant for the people in Africa are embezzled and
taken away to foreign land. She called for more robust cooperation
between African countries so as to move the continent forward.</p>
<p>The Ambassador also affirmed that Africa is blessed with rich natural
and material resources sufficient enough to take care of every African.</p>
<p>She further stressed the importance of language to both countries. He
explained that because of the need to ease communication flow among
African countries, the government of Cote d’Ivoire some years back
introduced bilingual language policy which enables an average Ivorian to
communicate in both English and French.</p>
<p>It would be recalled that the Ambassador had severally visited NCPC
to solicit the cooperation of the commission to explore Holy sites in
Cote d’Ivoire. In the same vein; NCPC team had also visited Cote
d’Ivoire to explore the Holy Christian sites in the Franco phone
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