Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, the Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), says the Federal Government has concluded plans to establish citizens brigade with the aim of promoting...
By . Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, the Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), says the Federal Government has concluded plans to establish citizens brigade with the aim of promoting core values. Issa-Onilu disclosed this while speaking at an advocacy visit to the Nigerian Christian Institute (NCI), Uyo on Monday.
He said that the citizens brigade was part of the National Value Charter billed to be unveiled by President Bola Tinubu during the year. The D-G said that no fewer then 37,000 Nigerian children would be recruited into the brigade and raised as models to promote core values and good citizenship. Nigeria’s Healthtracka selected for Google’s AI for health programme Foundation condemns heavy metal poisoning in Sokoto, calls for action He noted that the Nigerian child must be nurtured from the cradle with core values to enable them grown into patriotic and productive adults.
“We have seven items on our plan to deepen national values, one of them is the establishment of citizens brigade. “It is to give opportunities to our children to be nurtured from tender age, it is one of the voluntary institutions we intend to create “It will be fashioned after what we knew those days as boys scout and girls brigade. They will be kitted and raised as model citizens,” he said.
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