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  • Updated: May 18, 2023

Bayelsa SSG Hails NYSC As Best Youth Programme In Africa

Bayelsa SSG Hails NYSC As Best Youth Programme In Africa

The Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Alabo Gideon Ekeuwei, has hailed the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) as the most vibrant youth programme in Africa.

He said that despite the challenges faced by the NYSC programme, it has outlived every other youth scheme initiated in Nigeria and entire Africa.

He said this while speaking during the NYSC at 50 Anniversary lecture at the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Secretariat, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

He further noted tha the corps members who are the major elements in the youths scheme have become an indispensable factor in the areas of education, health care, agriculture and infrastructure as they carry out their primary and secondary assignments.

Ekeuwei, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary General Services, Anthony Ichobo congratulated the Service Corps for its 50th Anniversary celebration.

He also said that he looked forward to the next 50 years of the scheme as the champion of national unity, cultural integration and religious tolerance.

The State Coordinator of the scheme, Okpalifo Obiageli Charity, on behalf of the Director General, Brig Gen YD Ahmed, said the event was one of the programmes scheduled nationwide to mark the 50th anniversary of the Service Corps as the scheme was established on 22 May 1973 by General Yakubu Gowon.

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