PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan Thursday charged members of the 2012
Batch ‘A’ of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) across the country
to skillfully put all the innovative training they had received in the
course of their one year national service to good use by becoming
employers of labour.
He gave the advice at the passing-out ceremony held for corps members, who were officially disengaged from the NYSC nationwide, having completed their programme.
Jonathan, whose address was read in Lagos by the Commissioner for Special Duties, Mr. Wale Ahmed, on behalf of Governor Babatunde Fashola, said his administration was not ignorant of the high unemployment rate in the country, thus its continued passion to address the challenge using various programmes, including SURE-P and You Win.
He said it was against this background that the 2012 Batch ‘A’ corps members were offered special training through the Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED), carefully designed to address the unemployment crisis in the country.
The president said: “The various forms of experience garnered during the one year service programme should guide you in the pursuit of life goals. I have been briefed that the SAED programme aimed at empowering corps members to become self-employed started with your batch and has recorded appreciable success.
“The present administration remains resolute in tackling unemployment, insecurity and corruption headlong to ensure that there is conducive atmosphere for sustainable economic growth. I therefore implore you to co-operate and support this administration by putting everything you have learnt to good use and help reduce the current level of unemployment.”
Meanwhile, the Lagos NYSC Co-ordinator, Mrs. Adenike Adeyemi, said that 28 corps members would face disciplinary actions ranging from two to four months extension of service to repetition of service. She regrettably announced the passing away of five courageous patriots during the service year. She also commended the seven corps members who received State Honours.
In Kano State, the low key ceremony, which was devoid of its usual passing-out parade due to insecurity, only witnessed decentralised issuance of discharge certificates to corps members in the four zonal offices of the scheme at Bichi, Wudi, Kura and Kano Municipal.
Kano State NYSC Co-ordinator, Alhaji Salisu Yakasai, said the scheme was re-evaluating its previous posting policy that restricted corps members to four key sectors considered cardinal to national development to enable them be deployed to their carrier-based environment.
Three of the corps members that served in Kwara State lost their lives during the service. The state NYSC Co-ordinator, Ngozi Ezekwe, who disclosed this yesterday during the passing-out ceremony at the Ilorin Metropolitan Square, said the NYSC regretted the death of the youths.
No fewer than 20 corps members in Osun State were sanctioned and would repeat their service year due to alleged misconduct. 10 others, who performed outstandingly in their places of primary assignment, were given award by the state government.
The Co-ordinator, Mrs. Marry
Eboagwu, who gave this hint at the passing-out ceremony in Osogbo, noted
that the 2012 Batch ‘A’ corps members generally performed well, adding
that the erring corps members would re-take their service year for their
failure to abide by the rules and regulations of the scheme.
He gave the advice at the passing-out ceremony held for corps members, who were officially disengaged from the NYSC nationwide, having completed their programme.
Jonathan, whose address was read in Lagos by the Commissioner for Special Duties, Mr. Wale Ahmed, on behalf of Governor Babatunde Fashola, said his administration was not ignorant of the high unemployment rate in the country, thus its continued passion to address the challenge using various programmes, including SURE-P and You Win.
He said it was against this background that the 2012 Batch ‘A’ corps members were offered special training through the Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED), carefully designed to address the unemployment crisis in the country.
The president said: “The various forms of experience garnered during the one year service programme should guide you in the pursuit of life goals. I have been briefed that the SAED programme aimed at empowering corps members to become self-employed started with your batch and has recorded appreciable success.
“The present administration remains resolute in tackling unemployment, insecurity and corruption headlong to ensure that there is conducive atmosphere for sustainable economic growth. I therefore implore you to co-operate and support this administration by putting everything you have learnt to good use and help reduce the current level of unemployment.”
Meanwhile, the Lagos NYSC Co-ordinator, Mrs. Adenike Adeyemi, said that 28 corps members would face disciplinary actions ranging from two to four months extension of service to repetition of service. She regrettably announced the passing away of five courageous patriots during the service year. She also commended the seven corps members who received State Honours.
In Kano State, the low key ceremony, which was devoid of its usual passing-out parade due to insecurity, only witnessed decentralised issuance of discharge certificates to corps members in the four zonal offices of the scheme at Bichi, Wudi, Kura and Kano Municipal.
Kano State NYSC Co-ordinator, Alhaji Salisu Yakasai, said the scheme was re-evaluating its previous posting policy that restricted corps members to four key sectors considered cardinal to national development to enable them be deployed to their carrier-based environment.
Three of the corps members that served in Kwara State lost their lives during the service. The state NYSC Co-ordinator, Ngozi Ezekwe, who disclosed this yesterday during the passing-out ceremony at the Ilorin Metropolitan Square, said the NYSC regretted the death of the youths.
No fewer than 20 corps members in Osun State were sanctioned and would repeat their service year due to alleged misconduct. 10 others, who performed outstandingly in their places of primary assignment, were given award by the state government.
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