Take security tips seriously to enhance your safety, NYSC DG tells corps members in Borno
The director-general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Y. D. Ahmed has tasked corps members to take seriously the security tips and lectures given to them at the camp.
“Taking the security tips seriously will enhance your safety,” Mr Ahmed said on Saturday while addressing corps members of Batch A, Stream 11, at the Borno orientation camp in Maiduguri.
He assured them that no corps member would be deployed to crisis-prone areas.
The NYSC boss also urged them to attend all activities in the orientation camp as they would find the lessons there useful in the service year and beyond.
Mr Ahmed said the skills acquisition and entrepreneurship training being provided for them were to make them self-reliant and possible employers of labour.
“Many former corps members made it in life by using the opportunity provided by the entrepreneurship training at the camp.
“Some created wealth and became employers of labour, that’s why we are encouraging corps members to key into these skills acquisition and entrepreneurship programmes,” Ahmed said.
The director general said that NYSC was partnering with organisations such as Bank of Industries, Access Bank, and Unity Bank, among others, to support the programme.
He lauded the cleanliness and discipline of corps members at the Maiduguri orientation camp. He announced a donation of three cows and 40 cartons of Maltina, among others, for the corps members to celebrate.
Earlier in a welcome address, Borno NYSC coordinator Mohammed Adamu had said 1,162 corps members: 612 males and 550 females, were registered in the camp for the orientation programme.
(NAN)
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