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NYSC Recommits To National Development through CDS

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3 years ago

October 24, 2023

Joel Ajayi

The National Youth Service Corps has restated that it would ensure more contributions to national development through the execution of laudable projects by Corps Members that would improve the living standard of rural dwellers across the country.

It said Community Development Service (CDS) was designed to galvanize the enormous potential of graduate youths and generate community interest towards national development.

The NYSC Director General, Brigadier General YD Ahmed stated this on Tuesday in Abuja while declaring open the 2023 Community Development Service Schedule Officers’ Workshop.

Speaking through the Director, of Community Development Service and Special Projects, Hajiya Zainab Isah, General Ahmed said NYSC would continue to utilize the challenges posed by rural development and inculcate in graduate youths, the ideals of patriotism and endurance, selflessness, community and national capacities for leadership, efficiency, and creativity.

He added that the Scheme would continue to showcase more initiatives in education, infrastructure, healthcare delivery, agriculture, economic empowerment, and above all national consciousness and socio-cultural regeneration.

General Ahmed said the continued relevance of the National Youth Service Corps is no doubt, largely predicated on the strength and capacity of the Community Development Service program to impact more on the lives of Nigerians, especially, the rural dwellers.

He also said the workshop would be used to brainstorm on possible ways of enhancing the CDS program, to enable the Scheme to contribute more to national development and assist the nation in measuring up with the global trends of emerging economies.

In her introductory address, the Director, of Community Development Service and Special Projects, Hajiya Zainab Isah, whose address was read by a Deputy Director, Mrs Grace Bamai said the CDS Schedule Officers’ Workshop is an annual event geared towards enhancing staff competency for greater productivity.

She said the workshop would also broaden the horizon of the Schedule Officers and equip them with the requisite knowledge for more effective service delivery.

Hajiya Izah said this year’s edition of the workshop, with the theme; “Rejigging NYSC Community Development Service for National Development”, would help the Scheme to review the CDS programme with strategies to repositioning it for greater contribution to national development, which is imperative for sustaining the Scheme’s relevance.

The Director commended the Schedule Officers for their remarkable efforts in guiding Corps Members in the execution of personal and group CDS projects.

“It is on record that the execution of quality and impact-felt projects and collaborative partnership activities owed their successes to their dedication to duty”, she said.

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Musawa Seeks Broader Significance for June 12

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1 day ago

October 3, 2026

The Gleamer

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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