FG reveals plan to establish Citizens Brigades In Schools

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The federal government government has laid bare its plan to establish Citizens Brigades in primary and secondary schools across the country.

The unveiling of the scheme was made by the Director General of National Orientation Agency, (NOA), Lanre Issa-Onilu, at the multi-stakeholders workshop on parenting programmes in Nigeria supported by Parenting for Life Long Health & Global Parenting Initiative, University Of Oxford in Abuja.

Onilu said the Brigades is aimed at weaning school pupils on right values from impressionable age, saying a thousand of the club will be in place in each state in the 36 states and the FCT.

The brigades, he said, will be 37,000 in total with the promotion of the contents of the National Values Chatter trusted to its care.

In his own words, “In this way, we intend to develop children who are values-conscious. Our advocacy on the National Values Chatter emphasises the centrality of responsible parenting. It is intended that the contents of the National Values Chatter will form part of our schools curriculum throughout the period of schooling from primary to tertiary level,” the DG said.

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