The National Youth Corps Service (NYSC) has harped on ensuring that corps members get to acquire vocational and entrepreneurship skills to prepare them for self-employment after the one-year service.
Speaking at a swearing in ceremony of the 2022 batch “B” NYSC members in Kaduna state yesterday, the state coordinator, Mr Odoba Abel Iche, said the skills will help to curb the menace of unemployment among graduates.
He said, “In this regard, the corps will go through lectures, leadership training, para-military drills, self-defence training and language lessons to enable them to communicate effectively with the people of their host communities.”
Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai, represented by the Commissioner of Human Development and Social Services, Hafsat Baba, urged the new corps members to take the entrepreneurship training very seriously.
The governor said the skills will make them independent because getting white-collar jobs is very challenging.
“It’s a call for selfless service and personal sacrifice. You should all continue in that spirit of rendering dedicated service to the nation like other patriotic young Nigerians,” El-Rufai advised while assuring the corps members of the government’s readiness to protect them throughout their stay in the state.
