NYSC: Mixed reactions trail FG’s proposed reform

The caller projected reforms for the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, is attracting divergent views from prospective corps members.

DAILY POST reports that the Federal Government is proposing the hold of the predisposition people for corps members from the archetypal 3 weeks to six weeks.

According to the Federal Government, the betterment is aimed astatine boosting skills acquisition, improving vocation improvement and repositioning the strategy to amended conscionable nationalist improvement needs. 

The NYSC, which was established by the erstwhile Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, rtd, successful 1973, has the superior purpose of promoting nationalist unity and integration aft the Nigerian Civil War.

The halfway nonsubjective of the strategy was to code Nigeria’s top situation astatine the time; nationalist disunity and the secessionist tendencies that had emerged successful definite parts of the country.

Speaking to DAILY POST, a prospective corps member, Charles Owoicho, said reforming the NYSC is simply a timely measurement towards relevance successful a changing Nigeria.

Owoicho  said the existent Nigeria grapples with harsh ec...