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NYSC Rejigs Partnership With NCRI On Agric Training

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4 years ago

August 11, 2020

Joel Ajayi

The National Youth Service Corps is to strengthen the existing partnership with National Cereals Research Institute, Badeggi, Niger State, with a view to training more Corps Members in modern farming towards the boosting of agricultural production, as well as giving fillip to the Scheme’s enhanced revenue drive.

The Corps is keying into Federal Government’s agenda on the diversification of the economy through agricultural practices.

NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja during a virtual meeting with the Management of the Institute led by its Executive Director, Dr. Aliyu Umar.

While appreciating NCRI for its numerous support towards mentoring Corps Members and NYSC Agric Officers, especially in rice farming, General Ibrahim solicited for a well-articulated and robust partnership that will ensure more bumper harvest for the Scheme through comprehensive training and supervision by the Institute.

He appreciated the assistance of the Institute in achieving a bumper harvest at NYSC rice farm in Kebbi State which it desires to replicate in all States.

To realize this noble objective and make NYSC a less burden on the Government’s lean resources, the DG proposed a Memorandum of Understanding and appointment of Desk Officers between the two agencies to oversee the partnership.

‘We don’t want NYSC to be seen as a burden to the Federal Government, and we want to generate funds from our farms’, Ibrahim said.

Responding, the Executive Director of NCRI, Dr. Aliyu Umar commended NYSC for its keen interest in the Institute and assured the Director-General that Corps Members would be incorporated in the customized training for good agricultural practices run by the Institute.

Dr. Aliyu further appreciated the NYSC for the sustained partnership and disclosed that Corps Members would be trained on rice value chain from production to utilization and in other crops such as soya beans, sugarcane, Benin seed, among others.

‘There is provision for customized training for both in-house and outside the station activities’, he said.

The Executive Director promised to appoint a Desk Officer immediately, while modalities shall be worked out to sign an MoU with the Scheme.

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CSO Salutes Trump

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2 weeks ago

January 20, 2025

The Gleamer

A Civil Society Organization (CSO) under the aegis of Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC) has congratulated President Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States of America.

Chief Ugochukwu Nnam, President of the CSO said this in an interview with the Newsmen in Abuja on Monday.

He expressed optimism over improvement on not just American economy but global economy with the inauguration of Trump.

“This is a man with greater vision of making environment around him great.

“In less than few hours of his inauguration, TikTok is back into existence, this shows how he is going to revive the world economy,” he said.

The ILDC boss who reiterated his confidence in Trump’s Presidency, described him as a man of clues and ideas to drive a stable America and the world at large.

He lauded Trump’s collaboration with global entrepreneurs like Elon Musk in an effort to revitalize America’s economy.

According to him, men and women of ideas flock together, they work together for better society and this is what Trump is doing.

Recall that Donald Trump became the 47th President of the U.S by polling 312 electoral votes Vice President Kamala Harris’ 226 votes in Nov, 2024.

Following the oath of office, Trump will address the nation before he is expected to parade across town to the White House and attend three inaugural balls in the evening

About 200,000 supporters are expected to visit the city to mark the presidential transfer of power.

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