The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, has appealed to private, public institutions and individuals to stop seeking for concessional posting of prospective corps members.
The director-general revealed this on Monday, September 21, at the opening ceremony of a two weeks skill acquisition training programme in Building Technology for corps members at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Abuja, News Agency of Nigeria reports.
He said the scheme would no longer grant or accept such requests as the online registration platform has been designed to take care of such problems.
Olawunmi said: “The scheme has for the past few weeks received various requests from MDAs of government, private institutions and individuals seeking concessional posting.
“They are just wasting their time; we are not going to do any concessional posting for anybody. If we concede to this it will be killing the objective by which the scheme was established which is national integration.”
He noted that the scheme in the past had granted concessional postings for prospective corps members who either had medical problems, was pregnant or a nursing mother.
The director-general said the scheme had chosen the housing sector as a key component of its skill acquisition training for corps members to address youth unemployment.
He also said that the nation had gained in areas of trained labour force and improved output quality through the course of empowering the youths through vocational training.
Meanwhile, the director-general of NYSC, has dismissed reports of the scheme banning pregnant women and nursing mothers from orientation camps.
Olawumi said: “We did not ban pregnant women and nursing mothers from orientation camps. In the past, we have had cases where pregnant women and nursing mothers came to camps to participant in the NYSC activities. These are people who should come for service, but rather, we see ourselves managing them.
The director-general revealed this on Monday, September 21, at the opening ceremony of a two weeks skill acquisition training programme in Building Technology for corps members at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Abuja, News Agency of Nigeria reports.
He said the scheme would no longer grant or accept such requests as the online registration platform has been designed to take care of such problems.
Olawunmi said: “The scheme has for the past few weeks received various requests from MDAs of government, private institutions and individuals seeking concessional posting.
“They are just wasting their time; we are not going to do any concessional posting for anybody. If we concede to this it will be killing the objective by which the scheme was established which is national integration.”
He noted that the scheme in the past had granted concessional postings for prospective corps members who either had medical problems, was pregnant or a nursing mother.
The director-general said the scheme had chosen the housing sector as a key component of its skill acquisition training for corps members to address youth unemployment.
He also said that the nation had gained in areas of trained labour force and improved output quality through the course of empowering the youths through vocational training.
Meanwhile, the director-general of NYSC, has dismissed reports of the scheme banning pregnant women and nursing mothers from orientation camps.
Olawumi said: “We did not ban pregnant women and nursing mothers from orientation camps. In the past, we have had cases where pregnant women and nursing mothers came to camps to participant in the NYSC activities. These are people who should come for service, but rather, we see ourselves managing them.
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