The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has said that it has no
intention to mobilize prospective corps members anytime soon,
especially as the country is still grappling with the coronavirus
pandemic.
The Director-General of the Scheme, Brig. Gen. Ibrahim Shuaibu,
who made this known in an interview with the Economic Confidential,
said they don’t know when they will mobilize corps members
again.
Gen. Shuaibu, said the management will only organize fresh
orientation exercise the moment the coast becomes clear, and they
receive the green light from relevant authorities.
The DG, noted that the Batch A, Stream 1 corps members who were
already camping, but had to be hurriedly dismissed due to the
outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, will be recalled back to their
various orientation camps to complete the remaining part of the
training.
Hear him: “We don’t know when we are going to start mobilizing
our corps members. You know our training is also structured like
that of the military and paramilitary. You can see that the
Nigerian Navy recently suspended its training for its freshly
recruited cadets.
“So, the moment the coast is clear, we are going to key into the
way others will conduct their exercise, so that our corps members
can be called back soonest.”
General Shuaibu expressed delight over the success story of the
Scheme’s Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED)
programme and the plan to generate revenue from the creative
ingenuity and productivity of corps members.
He said: “The SAED programme has recorded tremendous successes,
which can even be seen from the activities of our corps members in
the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Our corps members,
nationwide, produced face masks, sanitizers, disinfectant tools,
and automatic sanitizing machines. They are also involved in the
sensitization and distribution of palliatives of some of these
items to communities.
On the plan to to commercialise some activities in the scheme
for internally generated, NYSC boss disclosed that when he realised
that many people saw NYSC as a burden, the management rejigged the
scheme’s ventures to find ways to generate and bring ‘something’ to
the table.
“We now have NYSC bread and Table Water Company in Kubwa. We
want to see how we can replicate same in the States. So that during
orientation exercises we can get these items from our production
plants, and feed our corps members in camps.
“Some of our Corpers are into fish and snail farming in NYSC
farms. We want to embark in commercial farming of rice. We want to
key into the Federal Government’s policy on local content on agric
business. This is because we don’t want to be a burden on
government. Therefore, we must continue to look for ways to
internally generate our revenue.”
The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has said that it has no
intention to mobilize prospective corps members anytime soon,
especially as the country is still grappling with the coronavirus
pandemic.
The Director-General of the Scheme, Brig. Gen. Ibrahim Shuaibu,
who made this known in an interview with the Economic Confidential,
said they don’t know when they will mobilize corps members
again.
Gen. Shuaibu, said the management will only organize fresh
orientation exercise the moment the coast becomes clear, and they
receive the green light from relevant authorities.
The DG, noted that the Batch A, Stream 1 corps members who were
already camping, but had to be hurriedly dismissed due to the
outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, will be recalled back to their
various orientation camps to complete the remaining part of the
training.
Hear him: “We don’t know when we are going to start mobilizing
our corps members. You know our training is also structured like
that of the military and paramilitary. You can see that the
Nigerian Navy recently suspended its training for its freshly
recruited cadets.
“So, the moment the coast is clear, we are going to key into the
way others will conduct their exercise, so that our corps members
can be called back soonest.”
General Shuaibu expressed delight over the success story of the
Scheme’s Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED)
programme and the plan to generate revenue from the creative
ingenuity and productivity of corps members.
He said: “The SAED programme has recorded tremendous successes,
which can even be seen from the activities of our corps members in
the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Our corps members,
nationwide, produced face masks, sanitizers, disinfectant tools,
and automatic sanitizing machines. They are also involved in the
sensitization and distribution of palliatives of some of these
items to communities.
On the plan to to commercialise some activities in the scheme
for internally generated, NYSC boss disclosed that when he realised
that many people saw NYSC as a burden, the management rejigged the
scheme’s ventures to find ways to generate and bring ‘something’ to
the table.
“We now have NYSC bread and Table Water Company in Kubwa. We
want to see how we can replicate same in the States. So that during
orientation exercises we can get these items from our production
plants, and feed our corps members in camps.
“Some of our Corpers are into fish and snail farming in NYSC
farms. We want to embark in commercial farming of rice. We want to
key into the Federal Government’s policy on local content on agric
business. This is because we don’t want to be a burden on
government. Therefore, we must continue to look for ways to
internally generate our revenue.”