The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says it will include farming and crop production as part of the one year primary assignment for corps members from the next service year.
Mr Bello Ballama, the NYSC FCT Coordinator, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday. He said that the move was to help address corps rejection by some corps employers through the engagement of more corps members in all aspects of farming and crop production.
The coordinator said that the move was also aimed at boosting the NYSC Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) Programme. Corps members will be involved in all aspects of farming and crop production. From this 2018 Batch ‘A’ Stream I set of corps members who are commencing orientation on April 19, we are going to look into all the farm formations and centres to be able to post corps members there.
We have farms in the FCT and many other states of the country; the present leadership of the scheme is poised to ensuring the revival of all NYSC facilities including the farms. The NYSC is faced with the challenge of engaging the increasing number of corps members mobilised every year. We therefore, have to take proactive steps towards achieving our mandate and supporting the federal government’s plans for youth development.
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I thought they said there is no stream this year and they will be mobilizing three times??
ReplyDeleteHmmmm...nice idea..this will help in the development of our dear country
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Pls what is great about this news? This is the plan govt have for ppl's children after slaving 4 yrs in the university? Farming isn't bad, in fact farming is important but what happened to the other 100+ natural resources God has blessed us with? Was it farming China used to become what they re today? China of over a billion persons have removed more than 500m of its citizens out of the poverty. We re not up to 200m and most of Nigerians re poor.
ReplyDeleteThis is the plan they have for Nigerian youths, not like they will give u tractors or anything.
What happened to steel, coal, columbite, bitumen, rubber all d things we have? Imagine someone studies geology then he will go to the farm after Nysc? How farming help him career?
Let us vote these jokers out of power trying to take us 500years back.
N vote who in? Same recycled old thieves with corrupt cabinet.
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DeleteThey said this over 10 years ago, posting to schools which they did, and farms which never happened.
ReplyDeleteWamiyo. There are different paths to economic success and liberty, we all don't have to tow the same path as China, as long as we arrive in the same destination. We do not have the basic foundation to use technology to boom, but we do have the basic foundation to have an economic boom through agriculture; fertile land and abundant manpower. If the government is serious, trust me, we don't need up to 5 years to boom! And guess what, agriculture almost always carries technological development along for the boom ride! So cheer up, don't join the lazy loafers in moaning, join the "doers". Education is good, but look around you, agriculture is our future, though other sectors will develop too, but lets start somewhere!
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DeleteSo u support more graduates, even those who didn't study agriculture to serve in a farm?
The government isn't going to give you expensive machinery to farm like hello we haven't solved electricity and you think going back to the agricultural age is an answer? Pple re thinking of how to go to Mars, we re here thinking of how to go to the 14th century.
I ask again, what happened to steel? Trump recently talked about the importance of steel and it's impact to the economy. We have a steel plant and how many tons of steel is it producing? 0%
That's good with the right equipment
ReplyDeleteStella, Great News you said? PITY is what i feel for this country. Did his children or will his children (though not as learned as they should be) serve or agree to serve in the farm? Stella, so because you happen to escape the poverty level and experience of the people in this country, you chant great news.Did you (Stella) serve in the farm during your own time? Talk more of now that things are supposed to be getting better. Think, think and think again.
ReplyDeleteWhy won't we be at this level with foolish man such as the NYSC coordinator.
I just passed out yesterday and i served in the farm,nd i can with all evidence tell you thata working in a farm,especially small growing ones,is SLAVERY...i read agricultcure,and was so passoionate about serving in a farm..i saw hell....i worked overtime...i worked weekends .i was insulted...i was sexually harrassed severaly...i almost lost my self esteem..there were many days i cried....infact...my boss siezed my december salary..just cuz i travelled home in d 23rd and resumed 3rd of jan..nd i took permission bfre travelling oo...it was horrible..thank God its over. .
ReplyDeleteSorry dear. I can't function under the Sun, not to talk of in a farm. God help this country.
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ReplyDeleteWill the children of Nigeria's Othoman dynasty also, serve on these farms? Naija youths you better wake up from your long slumber o bcos things are about to take another dimension; make una keep one eye wide open and legs ready to run-4-your-lives with Fulani terrorists lurking behind said farms. Na today? Gaskiya
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