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Friday Olokor Published 5 May 2021The National Youth Service Corps on Tuesday said that security agencies would name places that would not get corps members as a result of activities of bandits, kidnappers and insurgents.The organisation also said it was considering increasing camp capacity with strict adherence to COVID-19 safety protocols.The Director General of the NYSC, Brig. Gen. Shuaib Ibrahim, stated these in an interview with journalists.
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The National Youth Service Corps on Tuesday said that security agencies would name places that would not get corps members as a result of activities of bandits, kidnappers and insurgents.
The organisation also said it was considering increasing camp capacity with strict adherence to COVID-19 safety protocols.
The Director General of the NYSC, Brig. Gen. Shuaib Ibrahim, stated these in an interview with journalists during the opening ceremony of a one-day 2021 Batch A pre-orientation workshop in Karu in Nasarawa State.
Ibrahim said, “The NYSC always collaborate with our security agencies and we are directed accordingly. So, we follow the advice given to us strictly because the safety of corps members matters.
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The National Youth Service Corps on Monday identified inadequate funding as the major challenge affecting its Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme.
The organisation said that despite the hiccups, it had recorded tremendous success in the implementation of the SAED programme.
In a statement by its Director (Press and Public Relations), Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier-General Shuaibu Ibrahim, stated this in the speech delivered during the 2021 NYSC SAED stakeholders’ meeting and training of desk officers, held in Abuja.
He said the NYSC would not rest on its oars in its quest to sustain and build on the achievements made within the last one year towards making corps members employers of labour.
Panic in NYSC hqtrs, camps as resident officer dies of COVID-19
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There was panic among staff of the National Youth Service Corps on Tuesday after a resident officer died of COVID-19.
The PUNCH gathered that the top officer was posted to the permanent orientation camp in Kano, a few days ago where he developed coronavirus symptoms and died on Tuesday.
Following his death, workers of the NYSC in Abuja and orientation camps, particularly in Kano, had been gripped by fear of contracting COVID-19.
Recall that the Economic Sustainability Committee led by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had in June last year called on the Federal Government to consider suspending the NYSC orientation camp exercises for two years.