NOA urges Enugu residents to respect Nigeria flag, national values

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has urged Enugu residents to respect the Nigerian emblem and uphold the nationalist values for which the state is known.

Mrs. Clara Nwachukwu, the State Director of NOA, Enugu, made the telephone astatine the “Nationwide Enlightenment Campaign connected Government Policies, National Values, Security Awareness, Disaster Preparedness and National Identity” connected Tuesday successful Enugu.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the bureau besides sensitized the residents connected the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) process, flooding, and security, urging them to study immoderate unusual movements astir them.

Nwachukwu emphasised the request for Nigerians to respect nationalist symbols and imbue them with values worthy of Nigeria, thereby making the state large again.

She said, “I privation Enugu residents to proceed to clasp our nationalist emblem precocious and to articulation hands successful making Nigeria large again by respecting the nationalist symbols.

“Nigeria is our lone country; we don’t person immoderate different state to telephone our own.

“Continue to praise Nigeria and beryllium arrogant of Nigeria’s nationalist symbols and proceed to sing nationalist anthem by speechmaking meaning into it,” Nwachukwu advised.

The authorities manager explained that the nationalist sensitisation is focused connected 5 thematic areas of development, adding that the bureau has designated September 6 to observe the nationalist flag, anthem, overgarment of arms, and nationalist pledge.

“If Nigerians seems to person forgotten these values that we are known for, we’ll spell retired again to punctual them and reorient them connected the request to proceed to emotion Nigeria,” she said.

She added that the bureau volition  continue to sensitise Nigerians to clasp authorities policies and programmes.

The Head of Department, Programmes, NOA Enugu, Dr. Eucharia Onyia, explained that, speech from the conference, the bureau had engaged successful quality conferences and municipality hallway meetings to amended Enugu residents connected nationalist values.

She stated that for Nigeria to beryllium respected by different countries, its citizens indispensable respect its nationalist values and symbols arsenic good arsenic amusement honesty and patriotism successful each they do.

Onyia, however, called connected governments to physique beardown institutions to guarantee that these values were respected and obeyed, stressing that if the laws were enforced, anyone who violated them would beryllium punished.

On her part, the Head of Civil, Value, and Democracy Education astatine NOA, Enugu, Mrs. Priscilla Agana, described the worth arsenic symbols of unity, pride, and individuality of Nigeria.

“Nigerians should not deface our nationalist symbols but respect them.

“We are besides trying to close and springiness due rendition of the re-adopted nationalist anthem arsenic immoderate radical don’t cognize it,” she said.

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