2027: NYSC DG asks Army to protect corps members

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, has urged the Nigerian Army to heighten information for corps members who volition service arsenic advertisement hoc electoral officials successful the 2027 wide elections.

Nafiu emphasised that corps members indispensable beryllium protected before, during and aft the elections, explaining that their relation successful the electoral process requires capable information guarantees.

He made the entreaty during a courtesy sojourn to Major General Adebayo Babalola, the General Officer Commanding, GOC, of the Nigerian Army’s 81 Division.

Nafiu said corps members would assistance the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, successful conducting the 2027 polls, making their information a cardinal interest for the NYSC.

He congratulated Babalola connected his assignment and commended his committedness to the payment of corps members serving successful the Division.

Nafiu besides praised the GOC for prioritising the training, mentorship and nonrecreational improvement of young officers nether his command.

He arsenic thanked the 81 Division for ensuring a harmless situation for NYSC activities passim its areas of cognition successful Lagos and Ogun states.

According to him, the comparatively peaceful information conditions successful some states are owed to the professionalism, acquisition and committedness of the subject and different information agencies.

Highlighting Lagos’s value to the NYSC, Nafiu noted that the authorities hosts astir 20 per cent of corps members nationwide,...