The National Orientation Agency (NOA) and the Values for Daily Living (VDL) organization have begun a major collaboration aimed at promoting national values and civic responsibility across Nigeria.
This development followed a courtesy visit by a VDL delegation to the NOA Director General, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, at the Agency’s headquarters in Abuja signaling the start of what both parties described as a promising partnership.
The engagement forms part of broader national efforts to deepen values reorientation, moral development, and citizenship education.
During the meeting, VDL representatives presented an extensive briefing on their work and ongoing initiatives targeted at addressing moral decline, particularly among young people. VDL, a character building organization, operates through youth engagement, community outreach, and educational partnerships to promote ethical behavior and responsible citizenship.
A highlight of VDL’s initiatives is its annual Take It Back (Values Advocacy) Conference, which convenes parents, educators, youth leaders, and stakeholders to discuss challenges in values formation and chart strategies for moral renewal. Through panel discussions, live audience participation, and expert insights, the conference has become a hub for conversations on parenting, education, character building, and societal responsibility.
Responding to the briefing, NOA DG Mallam Issa-Onilu praised the organization’s efforts, noting that VDL’s mission aligns with NOA’s national values reorientation agenda especially the Nigerian Identity Project and the development of a National Values Charter aimed at embedding core Nigerian values into educational and civic structures.
He also highlighted NOA’s progress in integrating values education into the national curriculum through the newly introduced Heritage and Citizenship Studies for primary and secondary schools. He emphasized that VDL’s materials, including its Values for Daily Living manuals, closely complement the values framework being developed for formal instruction.
The Director General expressed the Agency’s readiness to partner with VDL in curriculum development, literature review, and youth centered values education initiatives. Both organizations reaffirmed the need for coordinated national efforts to entrench ethical behavior at all levels of society.
The meeting ended with a shared commitment to pursue structured collaboration to ensure that values education becomes central to Nigeria’s development agenda.