The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, General Yushau Ahmed, has urged corps members to actively engage in the Skills Acquisition Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) program during their service.
Ahmed emphasized that the primary objective of SAED is to equip corps members with skills that will enable them to become employers of labor after completing their service. He highlighted the shift away from dependence on government jobs and the increasing importance of entrepreneurial endeavors.
The DG conveyed this message during his visit to the 2023 Batch A, Stream 2 corps members in Lagos on Friday.
”We have details of your predecessors who made the best use of SAED while they were in camp, and today, they are entrepreneurs and employers of labour,” Ahmed said.
He added, “Some of you posted for the primary assignment might find yourselves serving under them, because they chose to distinguish themselves, and today, they are independent and self-reliant,” he remarked.
The DG who expressed delight at the clean state of the NYSC orientation camp in Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos, lauded, “Everywhere I go, I address others as ladies and gentlemen corps members, but I think Lagos corps members deserve to be addressed as distinguished corps members.
“This is because, from the gate coming into the camp, I observed that the environment is very clean and the testimony I got from the Coordinator is that Batch A, Stream 2 Corps members are exceptional.”
On the issue of the security of corps members, he pointed out that, “deliberate effort and collaboration with critical stakeholders, involving security agents as Police, DSS, Civil Defence and the Army are in place.”
He, however, tasked corps members to be discipline and obedient, declaring that anyone who violates the orientation camp rules/regulations would be decamped and sent home.
“The training you are being given in camp is strategically and deliberately meant to toughen you and prepare you for life ahead; take all the training very important, so you must approach all activities with seriousness,” he encouraged.
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