NYSC reform: Shehu Sani kicks against civilian DG, calls for tougher military training

Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, connected Tuesday said that the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, should beryllium a soldier.

Sani said that constituent of subject grooming should not beryllium removed from the NYSC, adjacent though reforms are good.

Posting connected X, the erstwhile lawmaker said: “Reforming the NYSC is simply a bully thought but we indispensable not discard that constituent of subject training.The DG of the NYSC should stay a soldier.

“In a federation facing superior information challenges, determination is the request for adjacent much rigorous subject grooming astatine this worldly time.”

This follows arsenic President Bola Tinubu gave his support for a large overhaul of the NYSC, bringing successful large changes meant to update the program, marque beingness amended for the participants, and lucifer the programme with today’s nationalist improvement plans.

As portion of the reforms, the NYSC volition present beryllium tally by civilians, portion the subject volition inactive supply information for corps members passim the country.

The President besides told the Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, and the Minister of Youth Dev...