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Impact Positively on Your Host Communities, DG Tells CMS
Joel Ajayi
Corps Members have been advised to critically study their respective host communities after their Orientation Exercise and execute laudable projects that would improve the standard of living of the residents.
The Director General of National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General YD Ahmed stated this on Friday while addressing the 2024 Batch ‘A’ Stream Two Corps Members at Jigawa, Yobe and Borno State Orientation Camps.
He said all Corps Members must ensure that by the end of their service year, they leave lasting legacies of good projects in their host communities.
The Director General, who lectured the Corps Members on the four cardinal programmes of the NYSC, namely; Orientation Course, Community Development Service, Place of Primary Assignment and Winding-Up and Passing-Out activities, added that every Corps Member must participate actively and excel in all the four programmes before he can collect the Certificate of National Service.
General Ahmed also warned the Corps Members to always live peacefully, respect the culture and traditions of the communities they would be posted to, and avoid actions that may put them on collision with anyone.
“We have zero tolerance for misconduct in NYSC. Abide by the NYSC rules and regulations and stay safe throughout the service year”, the DG advised.
While giving the camp situation report to General Ahmed, the NYSC Jigawa State Coordinator, Mr Dawut Jidda said all the 1,484 registered Corps Members comprising 744 males and 740 females have been co-opted into all the camp committees and are working towards the success of the Orientation Course.
The NYSC Yobe State Coordinator, Mrs Salamatu A Muhammad informed the Director General that a total of 1,285 Corps Members comprising 703 males and 582 females were registered.
“They are well mannered and some of them have already start exhibiting leadership traits”, she said.
Similarly, the NYSC Borno State Coordinator, Mr Adamu Jiya disclosed that all the 1,162 Corps Members made up of 612 males and 550 females are in high spirits and
have all displayed high level of discipline and have been cooperating with the camp officials since the commencement of camp activities.
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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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