T President Goodluck Jonathan has given approval for the National Orientation Agency “to organise a value orientation programme for the Federal Executive Council as a component part of the Federal Government’s Transformation Agenda.”

The Director-General of NOA, Mr. Mike Omeri, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja during the commencement of the second phase of NOA’s Patriotism and Ethics First training programme.

The programme was organised for government-owned media practitioners, security officers and public servants.

Omeri, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Paul Odeniyi, said, “NOA is already working out modalities for the orientation programme and the President was of the conviction that leadership must blaze the trail in creating the required attitude change for national transformation.”

Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe, who performed the formal inauguration of the training, observed that although the media remained a strategic part of the President’s Transformation Agenda, “they have done little to foster unity in a nation of diverse groups.”

Minister of Environment, Hadjia Hadiza Ibrahim-Mailafia, stressed the need for change in the country and noted the relevance of every individual Nigerian in the nation’s transformation process.

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