Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Olatunji Alausa, has proposed extending the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) from one year to two. This proposal aims to enhance the program’s effectiveness in developing skilled and entrepreneurial individuals.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The minister recommends increasing the NYSC service period to provide corps members with more comprehensive training and experience. He also suggests broadening the NYSC Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development Training program to equip corps members with more skills, enabling them to become job creators.
Dr. Alausa commends the NYSC for implementing a digitalized process that helps curb certificate racketeering among foreign-trained graduates in West Africa. He addresses the issue of OND part-time graduates with full-time HND who were previously exempted from national service.
The NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, supports the proposal and suggests creating a database of Nigerian youths pursuing degree programs abroad to track and monitor their activities.
This proposal is not the first of its kind, as Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State also advocated for a two-year NYSC service in 2013, citing the need for military training to make corps members more useful to society.