Nysc Director Demands NYSC To End

"NYSC is pointless."

Nigerians seeking to have the program scrapped have been cautioned by the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, not to get very upset.

The Director of the South West Area Office of the NYSC, Amusan Oluwole Julius, gave the advise while speaking at a Unity Walk organized to commemorate the scheme's 50th anniversary in Osun. He claimed that scrapping the program would not be best for Nigeria.

Amusan, who filled in for NYSC Director General Brigadier General Yushau Dogara Ahmed during the Osogbo Unity Walk, reminded Nigerians that the NYSC has accomplished a lot in its 50 years of existence.

"There may be issues in the past, the challenges the scheme is facing are not enough to call for its scrapping.

"NYSC has done this nation a lot of good. The NYSC is felt in all the 774 local governments in Nigeria.

"Calling for the scrapping is not the best thing anybody can talk of now.

"You will agree that NYSC has made giant strides in the last 50 years.

"When you look back from 1973 when this scheme came into being, areas like education, health care delivery, social service campaigns, national programmes, NYSC has made a lot of impacts in those areas."

Amusan stated that NYSC has lived up to the goals set forth by its founders.

"When you are talking of fostering national unity, through this scheme, inter-ethnic marriages have occurred, we have seen mobility of labour, corpers being retained in their states of service, many corpers have established their own businesses in the various states where they are posted."

However, Amusan pointed out that the difficulties facing the NYSC are the same for any organization.

"The major problem is the issue of finance that has not been adequate to meet all the needs but kudos need to be given to the government for their inmts in the last 50 years.

"They have been meeting expectations but there is still a need for improvement in the area of funding."

Agbor Ndoma Obim, the coordinator for the NYSC in Osun State, claimed that activists had planned a unification walk for the occasion.

He continued by saying that more commemorative activities would start on May 17.

"We are going to have lectures, symposia and other activities in the area of project commissioning that have been executed by NYSC members.

"On Friday, there will be a Juma'at service. The week-long activities would end with a church service on Sunday, May 21, 2023."

In order to achieve their life goals, he counseled teenagers to practice discipline and pay close attention to the advice of elders.

"They should think big and start small. By doing so, things will be better for them."