The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has insisted that its version of the new national anthem released last week was the correct one.

The Director-General of NOA, Lanre Issa-Onilu, said this in a statement issued on Tuesday by the agency’s Deputy Director of Press, Paul Odenyi.

Mr Issa-Onilu was responding to an observation made by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on the national anthem during Tuesday’s plenary.

Mr Akpabio, during the plenary, identified errors in lines three, five, and 18 of the national anthem released by the NOA..

“Where you have, ‘Nigerians all, are proud to serve’, they said ‘Nigerians all, and proud to serve’, that is number one, it should be ‘are’.

“And then it said ‘though tribes and tongues may differ’, they said, ‘though tribe and tongue, I hope you understand and at the end where we said ‘Nigeria shall be blessed’, they did not say so. They said ‘Nigeria may be blessed’.

“We are using the word shall, which is compulsion, that this country shall be blessed. So, tell the National Orientation Agency to drop what they are circulating now. Congratulations to all of us” Mr Akpabio said.

PRESS RELEASE

NATIONAL ANTHEM: NOA RELEASED OFFICIAL VERSION
-Senate President Misquoted

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has explained that the official version of the National Anthem it unveiled remains the correct lyrics approved in the act signed by President Bola Tinubu on May 29, 2024.

The Director General of the Agency, Mallam Issa-Onilu, clarified inquiries from the media on the correct lyrics of the new national anthem, saying as an act of the Parliament, the NOA is duty-bound to only promote the official version.

Believing that the Senate President was misquoted, Mallam Issa-Onilu advised the media to always cross-check their facts before publication.

He also advised the media to check the Act signed by the President as approved by the National Assembly to confirm the version as released by the NOA.

In his words," The official version that we issued remains the correct lyrics. We are making an effort to standardise the instrumental and audio versions before we release it to the public."

The NOA had last week released the official version of the National anthem to guide citizens who might be unsure of the correct lyrics of the reintroduced old National Anthem.

Paul Odenyi
Deputy Director, Press.

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Akpabio ,try find shame preferably in your time.






He's always putting himself in irrelevant things.

He's now on di*CK measuring National anthem wordings assignment with NOA.

Checking spellings, punctuations and use of are ,and we.


Nothing tangible to show as a senate president other than sending prayers into fellow criminals account.

Nonsense !

Family affairs...

E be like this former APC spokesman is tired of his Job, even if Tinubu dey support you, people like Akpabio the "what money cannot do, more money can do" man should not be engaged in a verbal spat. Soon You will be replaced.

Jjjj

Shameful

What a national disgrace!

Can't you proofread it before signing it

Yeye

Were dey support him master

donogaga:
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has insisted that its version of the new national anthem released last week was the correct one.

The Director-General of NOA, Lanre Issa-Onilu, said this in a statement issued on Tuesday by the agency’s Deputy Director of Press, Paul Odenyi.

Mr Issa-Onilu was responding to an observation made by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on the national anthem during Tuesday’s plenary.

Mr Akpabio, during the plenary, identified errors in lines three, five, and 18 of the national anthem released by the NOA..

“Where you have, ‘Nigerians all, are proud to serve’, they said ‘Nigerians all, and proud to serve’, that is number one, it should be ‘are’.

“And then it said ‘though tribes and tongues may differ’, they said, ‘though tribe and tongue, I hope you understand and at the end where we said ‘Nigeria shall be blessed’, they did not say so. They said ‘Nigeria may be blessed’.

“We are using the word shall, which is compulsion, that this country shall be blessed. So, tell the National Orientation Agency to drop what they are circulating now. Congratulations to all of us” Mr Akpabio said.



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let's go

Another irrelevant back n forth.....una dey plagiarised anthem again. Just leave it the way the original composer put it

With this it shows we are just on autopilot. We have lost direction.

Babablus and confusion.

I will never sing that anthem. They don't even know the right version.

Tinubulation is using the anthem to distract us from his failures.

Efikman:
Yeye

dey smell

Marry a virgin woman and see how your life version will be better than the lives of those men who married a women fvcked by many men.


Don't let any family scam you into believing that character is what you should look out for in a woman. If her character is good as they claimed, you would have met her as a virgin.

No woman would want her son to marry a non virgin because even women knew that a non virgin is a recipe for paternity fraud and marital frustrations.

Enemyofpeace:
Were dey support him master

exactly 😅

🌽fused people

donogaga:
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has insisted that its version of the new national anthem released last week was the correct one.

The Director-General of NOA, Lanre Issa-Onilu, said this in a statement issued on Tuesday by the agency’s Deputy Director of Press, Paul Odenyi.

Mr Issa-Onilu was responding to an observation made by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on the national anthem during Tuesday’s plenary.

Mr Akpabio, during the plenary, identified errors in lines three, five, and 18 of the national anthem released by the NOA..

“Where you have, ‘Nigerians all, are proud to serve’, they said ‘Nigerians all, and proud to serve’, that is number one, it should be ‘are’.

“And then it said ‘though tribes and tongues may differ’, they said, ‘though tribe and tongue, I hope you understand and at the end where we said ‘Nigeria shall be blessed’, they did not say so. They said ‘Nigeria may be blessed’.

“We are using the word shall, which is compulsion, that this country shall be blessed. So, tell the National Orientation Agency to drop what they are circulating now. Congratulations to all of us” Mr Akpabio said.



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Akpabio and his combative ignorance.

Ok

Senate Prezdent has spoken, NOA has spoken, I'm waiting for Balablue version

So the NOA is unable to see the wrong grammar it brought upon its revised National Anthem?

Senate President sef..

I feel Senator Akpabio sometimes talks too much..
Why not send his concerns to NOA or even summon the DG of NOA for clarifications..

Why causing more acceptability problems for an Anthem that is yet to gain full acceptance of the masses.

Senator Akpabio...small small..abeg

Rubbish. Adopting an anthem written by our colonial masters few weeks after the prince and princess came from UK. Very soon it will be LGBTQ that will be approved. Just wait and see.

To those of you who voted for this set of leaders, hope you can see now. We warned you about Buhari for good 8 years, you didn't listen. We warned your about Tinubu, you didn't listen either. He will probably win 2nd term with or without your votes and the suffering continues.

Voting for the wrong leaders have consequences, it's only a pity that we the innocents have to suffer with you idiots.

Ebimpawa ooooo Tinubu

Look at them.. Govt of confusion.

Naptu2 should investigate and tell us which one is correct from Lillian

For national anthem to be the center of discuss on a significant day like today really shows how clueless our leaders are and how bleak our future looks.

Nigeria we hail thee

Of all the problems in Nigeria, dear Nigerians, it is well with you all.