THE National Youth Service Corps has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Agricultural Land Development Authority to boost food production in the country.
NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim during the signing of the MoU at the NYSC National Directorate Headquarters in Abuja, today, commended NALDA for recently training sixty-eight Corps Members as Soil Doctors and Extension Service Workers.
He also lauded the Executive Secretary of NALDA, Prince Paul Ikonne, for his vision and strong passion for National development.
The DG said NYSC Scheme mobilizes more than 350,000 Corps Members annually and there was the need to tap their potentials for both personal and societal development.
He disclosed that the MoU would make the NYSC Farms become more active, with stakeholders’ support to enhance food sufficiency through the involvement of Corps Members.
Ibrahim renewed his appeal for the establishment of the National Youth Service Trust Fund, whereby part of proceeds would be channeled as start-off funds for Corps Members to establish their businesses, as well as maintenance of camp facilities.
He added that NYSC introduced Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development Programme into its Orientation Course Content in 2012, in order to empower Corps Members with vocations and relevant skills that would reduce the increasing rate of unemployment among the youths.
“Many of our ex-Corps Members are fully established today in their States of deployment.”
“Our Corps Members are knowledgeable and very skillful, but they need public support with a conducive environment.”
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