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The Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, said that the Federal Government has concluded plans to found a citizens’ brigade to beforehand halfway values.
Issa-Onilu disclosed this portion speaking astatine an advocacy sojourn to the Nigerian Christian Institute (NCI), yesterday, successful Uyo. He said that the citizens brigade is portion of the National Value Charter billed to beryllium unveiled by President Bola Tinubu aboriginal successful the year.
The DG said that nary less than 37,000 Nigerian children would beryllium recruited into the brigade, and raised arsenic models to beforehand halfway values and bully citizenship.
He noted that the Nigerian kid indispensable beryllium nurtured from the cradle with halfway values to alteration them to turn into patriotic and productive adults. He said: “We person 7 items connected our program to deepen nationalist values; 1 of them is the constitution of a citizens’ brigade.
“It is to springiness opportunities to our children to beryllium nurtured from the tender age; it is 1 of the voluntary institutions we mean to create.”
“It volition beryllium fashioned aft what we knew those days arsenic boys scout and girls’ brigade. They volition beryllium kitted and raised arsenic exemplary citizens.”
The NOA DG stressed that the anticipation was to enlist hundreds of children into the brigade successful the adjacent fewer years. Issa-Onilu urged Nigerians to memorise and larn however to render the caller nationalist anthem arsenic a mode of demonstrating their patriotism to the nation.
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The Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, said that the Federal Government has concluded plans to found a citizens’ brigade to beforehand halfway values.
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