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NYSC Harps on Mult-Lateral Collaboration For Skill Acquisition
By Joel Ajayi
Inadequate skill training facilities, start-up capital and insufficient access to mentorship and counselling have been identified as some of the challenges militating against the NYSC Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme.
NYSC Director-General, Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim said robust partnership with private sector organisations and multilateral collaborations are avenues to surmount these challenges.
He disclosed this in his address at the 2022 NYSC Stakeholders meeting, Desk Officers training and Debriefing Conference held in Abuja.
He said the Scheme has made significant progress in implementing the SAED programme over the last three years, despite numerous challenges.
“Out of myriads of challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seized opportunities to showcase the entrepreneurial abilities of the Corps Members.
Since 2019, partnerships and collaborations with different organisations have given new impetus to the empowerment of Corps Members for self employment and for national development.
However, we must not rest on our oars, if we are to sustain and build on the accomplishments of our recent past”, the DG said.
Ibrahim commended the stakeholders who have sustained and expanded their sponsorship of empowerment programmes in the NYSC.
He urged participants at the forum to engage in deliberations that will lead to the expansion of current partnerships and the development of new ones.
He added that the global downturn of the economy has greatly affected corporate entities’ commitment to corporate social responsibility.
“This is one of the reasons the NYSC Management is actively promoting the prospects of establishing the NYSC Trust Fund which will make the Scheme self-sustaining and also reduce unemployment, poverty, youth restiveness and criminality.
The NYSC Director, Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development Department, Mr Hilary Nasamu in his welcome address said collaborations with stakeholders in the last three years has led to increment in the scale of youth empowerment through SAED.
He poured encomiums on Bank of Industry, Unity Bank, British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation, Access Bank, Leventis Foundation Nigeria, NYSC Foundation, Enterprise Development Centre/Pan Atlantic University, German International Corporation, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, among others.
“The AMCON Management through the Managing Director’s Annual NYSC Entrepreneurship Initiative kick-started in 2021 a youth empowerment programme through which three Corps winners are given business grants on N500,000:00 each annually. This no doubt has added to the rising profile of our Corps empowerment programme”, Nasamu said.
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CSO Salutes Trump
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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