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The National Orientation Agency (NOA) and the Nigeria Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) have agreed to work together to promote a national value system. 

Lanre Onilu, director-general of NOA, disclosed this on Wednesday when he received Ike Neliaku, NIPR president, and other officials at the agency’s headquarters.

During the meeting, NOA and NIPR agreed to partner on promoting national values that reflect ethical principles of various parts of the country.

Onilu said the citizen brigade will help young people to understand the essence of being Nigerians.

“The quest for a national value charter is an attempt to build a consensus of what constitute Nigeria’s national ethics which will guide national aspiration,” he said.

“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 said the agency is also planning to endorse the return of nationalism studies in schools, adding that “it is as important as English and Mathematics”.

On his part, Neliaku solicited the support of NOA to achieve all NIPR programmes for the year.