NYSC mourns death of former DG, Colonel Peter Obasa

The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, absorption has reacted to the decease of its erstwhile Director-General, Colonel Peter Kolawole Obasa.

Obasa passed distant connected Monday, September 28, 2026.

During a condolence sojourn to the residence of the deceased successful Ilorin, Kwara State, the NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu described the precocious Obasa arsenic a pioneering head and 1 of the main architects of the NYSC, emphasising that helium laid the groundwork for a robust administrative model that has sustained the Scheme implicit the decades.

He noted that Colonel Obasa’s work arsenic the 3rd Chief Executive of the NYSC, spanning from 1979 to 1984, achieved important milestones.

The Director-General acknowledged the deceased’s invaluable contributions to the advancement of the NYSC and prayed to the Almighty to assistance his psyche eternal peace.

He said Colonel Obasa’s passing represented a profound nonaccomplishment not lone to his contiguous household but besides to the NYSC, whose unit would perpetually honour his important contributions and legacy.

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