NOA Anambra Gets New State Director
Awka: By Anthony Ugwonwa Obiorah
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) Anambra State, now has a new State Director.
He is Mr Edozie Ajaegbu.
This Follows the retirement of the former Director, Sir Joseph Uchendu, after serving his father land for thirty -one years and seven months,
Mr. Edozie Ajaegbu, before taking over the mantle of leadership of Anambra NOA, was a Director at the National Headquarters of NOA in Abuja.
He hails from Umunachi in Dunukofia LGA of the State.
Addressing the Management and Staff of the Agency soon after a brief handover ceremony by the outgone Director, Sir. Joseph Uchendu, held in the Director’s office at the Ebele Ofunneammaka Okeke Federal Secretariat Complex, Awka, the NOA new State Director, Mr Ajaegbu, said that he was impressed with the Level of achievements recorded by the Agency in Anambra State amidst paucity of funds.
He noted that the Director-General of the Agency, Mallam Isa Lanre Onilu, has passion to move the Agency to greater heights through strict implementation of people oriented programmes of the Agency at the grassroots across the Country.
He identified paucity of funds as some of the serious threats impeding the smooth implementation of the Agency’s programmes and assured the Staff of the Agency in the State that his leadership would operate an open door policy, uphold the legacies of his predecessor, Sir Joseph Uchendu and as well, work towards improving the welfare of the Staff for greater productivity in the State and beyond.
Earlier, the outgone State Director, Sir Joseph Uchendu, challenged the Management and Staff of the Agency in the thirty-six States of the Country including Abuja to support the new Director General of NOA, Mallam Isa Lanre Onilu, in his quest to reposition the Agency in achieving its objectives in state integration that would be beyond the negative influences of the political class in the Country.
He glorified God for the bountiful achievements he recorded in the Agency all these years, adding that no matter the depth of core challenges the Agency is facing today like inadequate funding, there is urgent need for adequate provision of logistics for NOA to be able to faceits task of social reengineering .
Receiving the new Director on behalf of the Management and Staff of NOA in Anambra State, the Deputy Director, Special Duties of the Agency in Awka, Barrister Ifeoma Chijioke, assured the new director of the unalloyed cooperation of the Management and the staff in achieving his set objectives, appealing to the out gone State Director to always make himself available whenever his attention and advice are needed in running daily affairs of the Agency for the common good of the State.
0
0
