The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig.-Gen. Nafiu Oloyede has urged 2025 Batch B Stream 11 corps members deployed to Osun to embrace skill acquisition and entrepreneurship training.
Oloyede gave the advice during a visit to the Ede Orientation camp on Sunday in Osun.
He said such training would make them self-employed immediately after their one-year compulsory service.
He said the scheme had partnered with several bodies, including non-governmental organisations, civil society groups, ministries, departments and agencies of government, to ensure that such processes work out.
According to him, the skills and acquisition programmes will equip the corps members with additional knowledge to ease their burden after their service year.
“We can not make startup capital available to all, but with financial literacy, you can build your own capital through your allowances.
“Do not miss the skills on camp. The reality is what you have now; make use of the opportunity because that automatic employment promised by family members may not materialise,” Oloyede said.
He further urged corps members not to cheat themselves by leaving with only one certificate after their service year, but to make judicious use of every opportunity at their disposal.
The D-G advised corps members to think critically by engaging in something meaningful rather than relying on white collar jobs.
“These are days of little beginning, don’t despise it, and use every opportunity to build yourself and make a meaning in life, ” he said.
Earlier, the NYSC state coordinator in Osun, Mr Agbor Obim, said that the D-G’s visit had further boosted the morale of the corps members in the state.
Obim said that 2,500 corps members were posted from Lagos and Osun, comprising 1637 to Osun, while Lagos had 863 corps members.
PUNCH Online recalls that the 2025 Batch ‘B’ Stream II Orientation Course commenced nationwide on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, across all orientation camps.
Meanwhile, the federal government has approved a policy that makes submission of students’ theses and final year projects into the Nigeria Education Repository and Databank a compulsory requirement for mobilisation into the National Youth Service Corps.
The new directive was contained in a circular issued by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, who conveyed President Bola Tinubu’s approval.
(NAN)
Embrace skills acquisition, NYSC DG advises corps members
