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Tanzania To Understudy NYSC On Innovation, Youth Empowerment
Joel Ajayi
The United Republic of Tanzania has expressed its desire to understudy the activities, programmes, achievements and challenges of National Youth Service Corps and replicate the same.
The Deputy High Commissioner and Charge D’affaire of Tanzania High Commission, Her Excellency, Judica Nagunwa stated this when she paid a courtesy visit to the Director General of NYSC, Brigadier General YD Ahmed at the National Directorate Headquarters in Maitama, Abuja.
She said Tanzania National Service programme which started in 1963 is for both volunteers and compulsory participants, but added that there are many viable programmes in NYSC that are yet to be replicated in her country.
She commended NYSC’s contributions to national development, adding that; “We think there is the need to come and learn from you.
We have come to study the structure of NYSC and see how it can assist us in vocational training, youth empowerment, wealth production and security”.
In his response, the NYSC Director General, Brigadier General YD Ahmed said the Scheme which was established more than fifty-one years ago is one year compulsory national service programme for graduates below the age of thirty.
He added that through NYSC Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development training programme, millions of Corps Members have acquired vocational skills that has made them employers of labour in different locations across Nigeria.
The DG disclosed that NYSC has undergone many changes with the exigencies of time to make it responsive to national needs.
He disclosed further that the main objective of establishing NYSC was to foster national unity and integration after the 30-month old Nigerian Civil War.
General Ahmed also informed the Tanzanian delegate that the tripartite responsibilities of the Scheme is borne by the Federal, State and Local Governments.
“We are into collaboration with many organizations that offer business grants to Corps Members so as to help them establish their businesses.
More than five million youths have passed through the Scheme from inception till date”, the DG said.
He promised NYSC’s readiness to offer every necessary assistance for the Tanzania National Service.
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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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