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  • NYSC boss bemoans dilapidated facilities at orientation camps

    NATIONAL Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Director-General Brig-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure has expressed concern over what he called the dilapidated state of facilities in many orientation camps across the country.

    Speaking at the opening of the 2018 Batch ‘A’ Pre-orientation Workshop in Ibadan yesterday, he said facilities in many of the orientation camps were nothing to write home about.

    He hailed the Oyo State Government for what he said was its continued support for the NYSC through the provision of standard orientation camp, located in Iseyin and its routine maintenance.

    Kazaure said the provision of an enabling environment for the operations of the scheme in the state was commendable.

    He added that the law establishing the NYSC scheme placed the responsibility of provision and maintenance of orientation camps on state governments.

    The NYSC boss, therefore, reiterated his call on stakeholders to live up to their statutory responsibility through provision of necessary facilities at orientation camps so as to make the scheme more effective.

    Kazaure said: “Permit me to use this occasion to remind all stakeholders that the law establishing the NYSC scheme places the responsibility of provision and maintenance of orientation camps with the state governments.

    “On this note, I wish to reiterate our call on them to live up to this statutory responsibility. This call has become necessary in view of the dilapidated state of the facilities in many orientation camps.”

    The DG said the workshop, with the theme: “Achieving the NYSC mandate through an effective orientation course,” was aimed at evaluating previous orientation exercises with a view to mapping out strategies for the successful conduct of the forthcoming one.

  • NYSC DG laments state of orientation camps

    NYSC DG laments state of orientation camps

    NATIONAL Youths Service Corps (NYSC) Director General Brig-Gen. Suleiman Z. Kazaure has flayed the facilities in most orientation camps, describing them as “obsolete, dilapidated and grossly inadequate for the increasing corps population”.
    Kazaure, who spoke at a pre-orientation workshop in Calabar yesterday, said the scheme, which started with about 2,700 corps members in 1973, is now mobilising over 300,000 members annually.
    His words: “Presently, the facilities in most orientation camps are obsolete, dilapidated and grossly inadequate for the ever-increasing corps population.
    “The panacea to the challenge is for all the three tiers of government to live up to the statutory roles in the operations of the scheme.
    “We are encouraged however by the efforts of the Federal Government at providing funds in spite of obvious financial constraints.”
    He hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for making it possible for all graduates to be mobilised for service in 2016.
    Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade, who was represented by his deputy, Prof. Ivara Esu, assured the NYSC management of continued collaboration.

  • INEC to mark maiden `INEC Day’ at NYSC orientation camps

    INEC to mark maiden `INEC Day’ at NYSC orientation camps

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it will mark the maiden edition of the `INEC Day’ at National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), orientation camps across the country, on Monday, June 27.

    INEC’s daily bulletin issued on Friday in Abuja stated that the decision was in furtherance of the commission’s “Voter Education drive.’’

    It stated that INEC would use the occasion to engage NYSC members, 2016 Batch A stream II, on various topics such as Voter Education/INEC Ambassador; and role of youth corps members.

    “Corps members will also be engaged on corps welfare at elections; role of security in elections; roles of Presiding Officers, Assistant Presiding Officers and Presiding Officers; basic election process and history of elections,’’ it added.

    The commission stated that the INEC Chairman would on Wednesday, June 29 meet with all Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs), in Abuja.

    It added that the commission had concluded arrangement for a three-day zonal workshop for Heads of Department HODs and Heads of Publicity Units (HOPUs) of the commission.

    It stated that the workshop, scheduled for June 27 to July 13, would be on “Strategic Communication and Review of Voter Education Strategies.’’

    In another development, the bulletin quoted INEC National Commissioner, Prince Solomon Soyebi, at a workshop, urging Public Affairs Officers of the commission to be proactive and ensure proper management of information on INEC.

    Soyebi, who is also the Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), said the commission was committed to constantly communicating its policies, plans and actions with stakeholders.

    He said there was need to revive the communication activities of INEC especially in the state offices, which he said had ebbed, compared to the recent past.

  • NYSC to deploy screening machines to orientation camps

    NYSC to deploy screening machines to orientation camps

    The Director-General of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) Brig.-Gen. Johnson Bamidele Olawumi has said he may deploy screening machines to orientation camps, if the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) continues to spread.

    This, he said, would enable the NYSC to detect the health status of corps members and prevent the spread of the EVD among the corps members during their stay in the camps.

    Olawumi spoke in Akure, the Ondo State capital, at the beginning of the NYSC/State Governments’ Collaboration on Monthly Environmental Sanitation.

    The NYSC chief said the scheme had integrated the camps’ clinics into the states’ plan to combat the spread of the EVD.

    He urged Nigerians to always maintain clean environment and personal hygiene.

    Olawumi said relevant government agencies should work together to curtail the spread of the disease, which has killed over 1,000 in West Africa.