By Abdulganiyu Alabi, Kaduna 27 January 2022 | 4:16 am Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Major General Shu’aibu Ibrahim, has assured that corps members will continue to participate in critical national assignments like elections and census. NYSC Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Major General Shu’aibu Ibrahim, has assured that corps members will continue to participate in critical national assignments like elections and census. He said the NYSC scheme has contributed to the development of Nigeria, saying the nation’s education and health sectors will be in serious jeopardy without the contribution of corps members. Speaking at the commissioning of a multi-billion Naira printing press, the DG said the idea was conceived almost a decade ago, as part of efforts to re-invigorate NYSC ventures. He said the project was one of the cardinal points of his administration’s policy thrust, adding,”the printing press will be a veritable source of revenue, with attendant increase in remittances to Federal Government coffers. “Funds realised from the printing press would address infrastructure deficit in the scheme, as well as enhance training and provision of start-up capital for corps members under the Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development ((SAED) programme of the agency. “The printing press would also be part of training platforms of SAED, as interested corps members would be accorded the opportunity to acquire skills in publications and digital printing. “Youth corps members should therefore make good use of this opportunity, acquire knowledge and skills of printing to be self-employed and the multiplier effects would result in lifting millions of Nigerians out of poverty,” the DG said. Latest 53 mins ago NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna “Gigi” Bryant have been honoured on the second anniversary of their death by a bronze sculpture temporarily erected at the helicopter crash site where they died. The bronze statue created by Dan Medina depicts Kobe and Gigi wearing basketball uniforms, staring at each other lovingly as Gigi… 2 hours ago A Los Angeles sculptor on Wednesday marked the second anniversary of Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s death with a statue on the site of the helicopter crash in Calabasas, California. Dan Medina built the 160-pound statue of the NBA star and his 13-year-old daughter and erected it over the site of the crash that killed them… 5 hours ago Amid calls for improved budgetary allocation to education by both Federal and state governments, successive administration at all levels in the country have failed to heed the call. 5 hours ago The controversies surrounding continued payment of fuel subsidy may not have ended as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited, yesterday, presented a bill of N3 trillion for deliberations at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting… 6 hours ago A Federal High Court, Abuja has declared as unconstitutional the Federal Government’s deduction of funds directly from the Federation Account to fund the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in line with Section 4(1)(a) and (b) of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund (Establishment) Act 2019.
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