Nkechinyere Ewa-Okpara
The National Orientation Agency, NOA, Ebonyi State, on Wednesday, October 9th, 2024, declared it is launching fresh campaign on fundamental approach to value orientation and attitudinal change among Nigerians, especially youths.
The Director General of the National Orientation Agency, NOA, Mallam Lanre Issa Onilu represented by Emeka Egbugara, Director & Coordinator, Environment, Climate and Energy in Ebonyi, stated this at a Press briefing in Abakaliki, the State Capital.
Emeka Egbugara, said NOA wants partnership with the media to drive down federal government policies in Ebonyi State, so the citizens are on the same page.
He pointed out that the Agency is committed to promoting democracy as the best model of government and promoting values that ensure peace, orderliness and proper moral conduct across the Nigerian society.
He highlighted some of the proposals made by the agency which received the approval of the Federal Executive Council, seeking to entrench the value orientation processes.
Adding that a number of these proposals deal with age indoctrination, and providing the template for the evaluation of what it terms the ‘Real Nigeria Character’.
THEOPHILUS NWOKPOR NOA Director in Ebonyi State, said Nigeria, a country with over 25 ethnic groups, diverse cultural and religious backgrounds, should place itself in the position where its citizens will benefit from this diversity.
“When discussing values, we discuss principles, beliefs, and ideologies shaping us as individuals and people. Therefore, just as individuals must have their values, beliefs, and principles that define their identity, without which they are unguarded and lost, so does a nation need to define its values, without which such a nation will remain backward.
“For this reason, the National Identity Project becomes highly important to redirect all Nigerians irrespective of class, ethnicity, and religion, to the ideals and values for which we were traditionally known and used to build our societies and their institutions. In a fast-changing world, where science and technology have reduced the world to a global village, we need to define our identity and values and live according to them if we want to sit in the comity of nations.
“We must not allow our core values of love, patriotism, resilience, courage, the dignity of labour, respect for the sanctity of life, belief in the family as a basic unit of society, justice, fairness and care for our environment among others be sacrificed on the altar of unrestrained adoption of foreign values”. Nwokpor declared.