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NYSC DG Advises Corps Members On Self-Reliance
Joel Ajayi
The Director General of National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General YD Ahmed has advised Corps Members to embrace skills acquisition in order to become self independent and job creators.
He said skill empowerment is the only antidote to the increasing rate of youth unemployment in the country.
The Director General stated further that the Management of NYSC introduced Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development training into its Orientation Course content in 2012 in order to empower Corps Members with relevant skills that can make them financially independent instead of searching for the unavailable salaried jobs.
General Ahmed disclosed this today while interacting with Corps Members during his visit to Plateau State Temporary Orientation Camp in Doi-Du and also Benue State Orientation Camp in Wannune.
He encouraged the Corps Members to learn at least a skill while in camp and thereafter follow up with post-camp training in order to perfect their skills for better output.
“We are into partnership with many financial institutions like the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Access Bank, Unity Bank, Bank of Industry (BOI), NNPC Foundation among others that are ready to offer loans for you to start your businesses.
Many of your predecessors that accepted this offer before are now business owners in different vocations across the country”, he said.
The Director General also urged the Corps Members to beware of people with negative characters and avoid actions that can make them run foul of the law.
He enjoined them to respect the culture and traditions of their host communities and live peacefully with the residents.
The NYSC Plateau State Coordinator, Mrs Ikupolati Oluwatosin Esther informed the Director General that all the 1,551 Corps Members consisting of 798 males and 753 females are well-behaved and have been participating actively in all camp activities.
In a similar vein, the NYSC Benue State Coordinator, Mr Abe Dankaro Ashumate said the synergy between all camp officials and cooperation from the Corps Members have tremendously helped towards maintaining law and order within the camp.
“All the 1,656 Corps Members are exceptionally disciplined and have been joined the Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development training”, the Coordinator said.
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Musawa Seeks Broader Significance for June 12
Joel Ajayi
The Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musa Musawa, Esq., says June 12 must be remembered as a sacrifice that gave Nigerians democracy, beyond its status as a public holiday.
In a statement signed on Saturday by the Senior Assistant Media & Publicity to the Honourable Minister,Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy Dr Nneka Ikem Anibeze Ph.D in Abuja.
Musawa stated this at the national premiere of “MKO”, a film on Chief Moshood Abiola, held at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, Lagos, to mark Nigeria’s 66th Independence Anniversary.
She said 33 years after June 12, 1993, many young Nigerians know it only as a holiday, but the film turns it back into memory.
“For too many young Nigerians, June 12 is simply a public holiday. This film tells them that our democracy did not arrive by chance. It was fought for. It was defended. It was paid for. This documentary is in honour of the heroes of June 12, the men and women who gave their lives for the mandate of June 12, 1993 and for the democracy Nigeria enjoys today,” the Minister said.
Musawa hailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Host, for his participation in the June 12 struggle and paying the price in exile, adding that Nigeria’s creative industry will keep telling the story of its democracy with courage.
“Through film and the creative economy, Nigeria will preserve its history. A nation that forgets its past loses its way to the future. Nigeria has a story and our story deserves to be told,” she said.
Earlier, the director of the investigative documentary, Ose Oyamendan, said the film was in honour and memory of heroes who fought for Nigeria’s democracy.
“There was Hope ’93 and now there is Renewed Hope. There was a man who sacrificed his life so we may have democracy and there is a man who almost lost his life fighting for democracy who is now helping build a lasting democracy.
“There was a great man called Bashorun MKO Abiola and there is now another great man called Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Democrats. Nationalists. Nation builders. Leaders of men and women. We must never forget our story. We must always honour and remember our heroes,” Oyamendan said.
Top government officials including President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the wife of the President Senator Oluremi Tinubu; Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Chief of Staff to the President Rt. Femi Gbajabiamila, state Governors, members of the National Assembly, Ministers and other distinguished dignitaries attended the premiere.
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