FIC Report (Anambra State) – The issues of moral rectitude, core values, AI generated natives (genz), national identity, and drug abuse, took centre stage today when the Anambra State Acting Director, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Barrister Lady Ifeoma Chijioke, led some top management officers of the Agency to an advocacy visit to the State Co-ordinator, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs Pauline Ojisua in her office at the Ebele Ofunneamaka Okeke Federal Secretariat Complex, Awka.
Briefing Mrs Ojisua on the reasons behind the visit, Barrister Chijioke, who explained she came to familiarize with the NYSC State Co-ordinator, Mrs Ojisua and her team as the new State Acting Director of NOA in Anambra State also noted that NOA had partnered with NYSC in implementation of her core national programmes in the State, and Nigeria at large over the years, described the NYSC office as the second home of NOA in the country.
The NOA boss urged the leadership of the NYSC in the State to initiate functional programmes capable of dissuading the youths from consumption of illegal drugs such as narcotics, and methamphetamine, among others.
The Acting Director, who stated that there is every need to catch the youths young, called for establishment of integrity clubs in primary and Secondary Schools across the State in order to instill a high sense of integrity in the youths .
The NYSC State Co-ordinator, Mrs Ojisua, while confirming that NOA had remained resolute in supporting the human oriented programmes of the NYSC office over the years in the State, charged the leadership of NOA in the State to often times talk more on moral rectitude with a view to enable the youth imbibe the spirit of core values and discipline as the grow into adulthood.
She spoke on the burning desire of her office to collaborate NOA in sensitizing the youths on the dangers of AI generated natives (genz), inculcation of real ethics, discipline and core values that will not depart from them.
The Co-ordinator, who stated that they are equally teaching the Corps members on more than six different skills apart from their routine primary assignments, maintained that the essence of the skills acquisition programmes is to make the Corps members self-reliant when they finally join the society post their service year.
In a remark, the NYSC Desk Officer in NOA, Awka and Assistant Director Youths Engagement and Inclusion, Mr. Ignatius Obiorah, said that their lectures for the Corps members before now centered more on general accepted values, ethics, norms and national identity programme of the federal government, adding that the essence was to enable them adapt to the society.
The event featured a presentation of education, information and communication materials by the NOA State Acting Director to the NYSC State Co-ordinator, who in turn presented their annual magazine to the NOA boss.
Ibeneme Maria Nkilimma
Sen Info and Public Relations Officer
28/3/2026
