The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, General Yushau Ahmed has implored corps members to embrace the Skills Acquisition Entrepreneurship Development programme during their service.
Ahmed said that the main focus of the SAED was to ensure that after service, they became employers of labour, as people no longer relied on the government for ‘white-collar’ jobs.”We have details of your predecessors who made the best use of SAED while they were in camp, and today, they are entrepreneurs and employers of labour,” Ahmed said.
He added, “Some of you posted for the primary assignment might find yourselves serving under them, because they chose to distinguish themselves, and today, they are independent and self-reliant,” he remarked. The DG who expressed delight at the clean state of the NYSC orientation camp in Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos, lauded, “Everywhere I go, I address others as ladies and gentlemen corps members, but I think Lagos corps members deserve to be addressed as distinguished corps members.