The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has suspended the scheme in three North-eastern states, Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States, due to the rising insecurity.
The Director-General of NYSC, Brig-General Johnson Olawumi, said this in Calabar yesterday at the annual management conference of the scheme in Cross River State capital.
He said until normalcy returned to the three states, NYSC would not post graduates of tertiary educational institutions there as the scheme was not ready to lose any corps member on national assignment to the activities of Boko Haram as it had in the past few years.
The director general warned the corps members posted outside the three states who sometimes travelled there to make more money.
“The NYSC is mindful of the security situation in the country. The states where we have security challenges we will deliberately not post corps members there. But any corps member who deliberately goes there to serve is doing so on his own volition. They do that on their own because we do not officially send corps members to those troubled states.
“I want to emphasise that those three states are part of Nigeria. Our prayer is that peace returns to those places as soon as possible so that corps members who want to explore those places would have the opportunity of doing so,” the director general said.
Mr. Olawumi stressed that the focus of the NYSC programme was to make corps members become self-sufficient, given the high level of unemployment in the country.
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