Get Guardian on GoogleFormer Director-General of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Sola Omole, has called for a national reorientation to restore moral values, discipline, truthfulness, and respect for the rule of law to address Nigeria’s social and governance challenges.
Speaking yesterday at the launch of his autobiography, My Dream, My Journey: From Broadcasting to the Oil Fields, he identified the breakdown of traditional values and the failure to uphold the truth among the country’s major problems.
He charged Nigerians to collectively accept responsibility for the country’s challenges, stressing that no individual or group could be completely absolved of the prevailing situation.
According to him, restoring Nigeria’s lost values must begin at the family level, particularly through raising children and deliberately passing on the principles of decency, morality, and responsibility to younger generations.
Omole further urged Nigeria to prioritise the reorientation of young people, noting that families have a critical responsibility to instil good values in children from an early age.
Among others, Omole said the inability of Nigerians in authority to speak the truth was another major obstacle to national development, regretting that dishonesty among leaders had become a negative example for younger generations.
He also called for a comprehensive review of the educational system to make it more responsive to contemporary realities and the demands of an increasingly globalised world, urging Nigeria to move beyond a predominantly theoretical approach to practical learning that equips young people with relevant skills for the future.
