The Director of NOA in Kwara, Olusegun Adeyemi, gave the charge in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in llorin on Thursday.
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Olusegun Martins, FRSC state Sector Commander, said at the Ibro Park, New Market venue of the exercise in Lokoja, that it was organised in collaboration with the Nigerian Optometric Association.
The Anambra Coordinator of NIMC, Bibian Ekweonu, expressed this concern during a one-day sensitisation programme organised for the field officers of the National Orientation Agency in Awka on Monday.
Hassan who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Kaduna said the figure was however far below the eight million residents eligible for registration.
At a joint news conference by the organisations on Wednesday in Jos, Bulus Dabit, the State Director of NOA in Plateau, said the target would be achieved through mass mobilisation campaigns.
The Director General of NOA, Dr. Garba Abari, made the call in a message of felicitation with Nigerians, adding that recent happenings around the country demand sober reflection to reawaken the conscience of citizens to their collective brotherhood and the need for entrenched peace in the interest of national development.
Sa’ad, who holds the traditional title of Galadiman Ruwan Zazzau, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna on the recent crisis in Kasuwan Magani, Kajuru Local Government Area of the state.
The NOA boss noted that the performance of police in the last local government election in the state was commendable and charged the police to keep it up.
Dr Garba Abari, Director-General of the agency, gave the advice on Tuesday in Kano while delivering a paper entitled, “Hate Speech is not Free Speech” at the on-going second Nigeria Union of Journalists National Conference.
The campaign was aimed at forestalling the deadly clashes between farmers and cattle herders, currently rocking some parts of the country.
Abari condemned the lingering scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, across the country, describing it as a ploy by conscienceless and unpatriotic marketers to force government to increase the pump price of the products.
This is the stage of physically verifying the age, gender, residential address, LGA, academic qualification and National Youth Service Corps completion of applicants.
The NOA Director in Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Danchadi, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Sokoto on Saturday
He condemned the murder of the septuagenarian on accusations of religious blasphemy and called on Nigerians to unite against intolerance, stressing that there can never be a justification for citizens taking the law into their hands or engaging in acts capable of threatening national cohesion
The Adamawa State Director of the Agency, Alhaji Ahmed Sudi Abba, said this while fielding questions from newsmen in Yola, the state capital
Ali urged them to imbibe and propagate the nation’s core values as a first step toward contributing meaningfully to national development.
Mohammed, who was represented by the Deputy Director, Alhaji Mohammed S. Aliyu, said the National Ethics are deliberately enshrined in Chapter Two, Section 23 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria to rally Nigerians around common values and de-emphasize their differences
Omeri called on media owners and practitioners to wake up to the challenge of the new media in sustaining the credibility and integrity of the mass media as a purveyor of public information in Nigeria
Others on the list included the Economic Community of West African States, the European Union Commission, Defence Headquarters United Nations Development Programme Democratic Governance for Development, Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, Chief Felicia Sani and the National Association of Market Men and Women, Joy Onyeso who is National Coordinator of Nigeria Women Situation Room
According to him: “Officers of the agency for the last six months have been going round various communities sensitizing and educating the masses on the need to obtain their Permanent Voter Cards as it is the only right to exercise their franchise
Omowon told the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan, Oyo State on Sunday that the campaign was aimed at ensuring violence-free general election in 2015