Fears about the safety of participants in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Scheme which is meant for national integration have forced the Federal Government to suspend posting of prospective members to states considered unsafe in the wake of worsening security situations in the country.
The Minister of Youth Development, Jamila Ibrahim Bio disclosed this on Sunday night saying the Scheme has taken steps to secure corps members, including posting them only to safe places of primary assignment.
“As an immediate intervention of the government and the NYSC as an agency, we have actually stopped posting corps members to the very unsafe states,” the Minister said on Channels Television.
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is a program set up by the Nigerian government during the military regime to involve Nigerian graduates in nation-building and the development of the country. Since 1973, graduates of universities and polytechnics
