NYSC: Nafiu laments lack of adequate accommodation for corps members at orientation camp

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, has blamed the increasing fig of graduates mobilised for nationalist work annually for the accommodation challenges facing immoderate predisposition camps crossed the country.

Nafiu disclosed that the Scheme mobilised astir 400,000 prospective Corps members successful 2025, but the fig accrued to astir 450,000 successful 2026, representing an further 50,000 participants.

He made this known portion addressing members of the 2026 Batch ‘C’ Stream II astatine the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp successful Sagamu, Ogun State.

The NYSC Director-General projected that the fig of graduates mobilised annually could scope betwixt 500,000 and 600,000 wrong the adjacent 3 to 5 years, informing that the rising figures would further summation unit connected the Scheme’s existing facilities.

According to him, the increasing request for nationalist work has created important challenges for the NYSC, peculiarly successful providing capable accommodation and different indispensable facilities during predisposition exercises.

Nafiu listed security, education, roadworthy operation and different captious improvement projects among the areas besides requiring important authorities investment.

He stressed that maintaining and upgrading predisposition camps was a shared work betwixt the Federal and State Governments, pointing retired that the facilities belonged to the respective authorities governments, which were expected to supply the ne...