NYSC Boss Charges Corps Members On Skills Acquisition

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has tasked Corps members to take advantage of Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurial Development (SAED) programme to acquire skills that would guarantee jobs after national service.
The Ekiti State Coordinator of the NYSC, Mrs Emmanuella Okpongete, gave the charge yesterday during the opening ceremony of the SAED programme for the current 2019 Batch C Stream 1 corps members at Ise-Orun-Ekiti.
The Tide’s source reports that SAED is parts of the activities lined up for the three- week Orientation programme for the 1,851 corps members’ at NYSC Permanent camp, Ise-Orun-Ekiti, in Ise/Orun Local Government Area.
Okpongete urged the corps members to avail themselves the opportunity of acquiring meaningful skills in order to contribute to the reduction of extreme poverty and hunger in the country.
The state NYSC coordinator reminded the corps members that the call to serve was to renew focus and redefine goals as well as aspirations.
She added that the SAED programme was an initiative targeting the Nigerian graduates mobilised for the one year national service for national development.
Okpongete also said that the skills acquisition programme was aimed at equipping corps members to be employers of labour rather than white-collar job seekers, which was scarce to find nowadays.
She implored them to identify demand-driven business skills and opportunities to be economically active as entrepreneurs.