Abakaliki, Sept. 2, 2025 (NAN) The National Orientation Agency (NOA), Ebonyi Directorate, has intensitied its enlightenment campaign on Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) and national values re-orientation in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the agency had sometime in August, launched a nationwide campaign on five thematic areas bothering on nation building.
The areas for the campaign include national enlightenment on government policies, programmes, and activities; flood mitigation and disaster preparedness.
Others are national security awareness, national values re-orientation for students against extreme sign-out practices, and the Nigerian identity project and national symbols campaign.
The Director-General (D-G) of NOA, Alhaji Lanre Issa-Onilu, at a news conference in Abakaliki on Tuesday, said the agency was prepared to advance campaign on the thematic areas to Ebonyi hinterlands and the nation at large.
Issa-Onilu, represented by Mrs Blessing-Ngozi Oyem, NOA’s Director of Youth Engagement and Inclusion, noted that the campaigns became necessary to ensure a healthy nation.
“In this five thematic areas of the campaign, our target is to reach out to no fewer than three million Nigerias per state, through media engagement, markets and motor park rallies.
“We shall also be holding town hall meetings, advocacy visits to traditional and religious leaders to enlighten the citizens.
“In order to have access to NELFUND student loan. The loan is available to all qualified Nigerians, who are schooling in public tertiary institutions in the country.
“The applications are made online at the NELFUND website and tuition fees are paid directly to the school on behalf of the successful applicants. Over 600, 000 students are already onboard,” the D-G said.
On the compaigns in general, Issa-Onilu explained that the agency had re-invigorated its website and equally deployed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Persons called CLHEEAN on its page.
“We are going to make sure that we reach every nooks and crannies of Ebonyi’s 13 local government areas,” he added.
Mr Theophilus Nwokpor, Agency’s Director in Ebonyi, said the campaign was a wake up call to all Nigerians for sustainable development.
Nwokpor said that the agency’s Community Orientation and Mobilisation Officers (COMOs), would be engaging the public to further understand the policies of the present government.
He listed some of the policies to include the Renewed Hope Infrastructural Fund, Social Safety Net Expansion, Industrial Training Fund among others. (NAN)
