[Press Release] The National Orientation Agency and the Nigeria Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) have agreed to work together to promote a national value system that represents the best of the country’s ethics.
The Director General of the NOA, Mallam Lanre Issa Onilu, and the new President of the NIPR, Dr Ike Neliaku, committed themselves to this partnership after their meeting on Wednesday at the NOA headquarters.
The NIPR President and his team were in NOA on a courtesy visit to seek support for its programmes for the year.
Issa-Onilu took the opportunity to brief the NIPR of the effort of the Agency in recreating a value system that represents the ethical codes of the different parts of the country.
According to him, the quest for a National Value Charter was an attempt to build a consensus of what constituted Nigeria’s national ethics, which would guide national aspiration.
For him, “Orientation is a journey, and you cannot begin a journey until you know where you are going to. So the first thing to do is to define our destination before we start the journey of Orientation. When we draw up this charter, we can comfortably say that we are orientating our people towards achieving the values we already set for ourselves.”
He pledged to make available to the NIPR a draft copy of the National Value Charter for their inputs, believing that to be important in designing a document that reflect the views of all stakeholders.
The DG also told his guests of the Agency’s plans to set up a citizens Brigade that would lead the grassroots campaign in schools and communities.
The Brigade, he said, would also ensure that young people at impressionable age understoid what being a Nigerian meant.
The NOA DG also spoke of his plans to advocate the return of nationalism studies in schools because “it is as important as English and Mathematics. ”
The NIPR President had urged for support for some of its programmes for the current year.
Paul Odenyi
Deputy Director, Press.
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