The state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr. C. Don Adinuba says the art of reading and writing distinguishes human from the lesser beings.

The Commissioner was speaking at a conference organized by Reading Association of Nigeria in Awka.

Commissioner Adinuba described reading as a life time experience that helps in improving and producing knowledge.

Mr. Adinuba cited modern technological innovations, as a product of wide reading and critical thinking, laying emphasis on high budgetary allocation for education, providing information and communication technology devices among others as ways to promote reading culture.

Also Speaking, the Commissioner for Basic Education, Professor Kate Omenugha, represented by Dr. Raymond Offor ,noted that the Ministry collaborates with the association to enable children cultivate healthy reading habit, which she said will go a long way in helping them in their academic pursuit.

Earlier in an opening remark, the President, Reading Association of Nigeria RAN, Mrs. Irene Mbanefo, said that literacy is considered as a generic term that cuts across all fields of life and areas of studies which is no longer seen as a restrictive concept, rather a holistic and self-conscious activity and urged people to imbibe the culture of reading to acquire knowledge.

In a Keynote address, Professor Adelabu of the Department of Education Management, Obefemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife, who was represented by Dr. Adebakin said that skill acquisition forms the bedrock of every country’s economic development.

The Acting Director Anambra State Library Services and Member of RAN, Dr. Nkechi Udeze, Anambra Central Senatorial Zone Coordinator for Literacy Enhancement and Achievement Project, LEAP, Mrs. Ijeoma Anyadike, and Chief Lecturer, English Department, Federal College of Education, Technical, Umunze, Dr. Amaka Okafor, called on parents to inculcate reading habits in their children by allowing them to visit library, as well as buying books for them.

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