By Ada Okafor
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Maj-Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, has promised to sustain partnership of the Scheme with the Nigeria Security Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC) in the area of production of NYSC Certificates.
The DG said the move is to foster local content development.
General Ibrahim gave the assurance while playing host to the Management of NSPMC who paid him a courtesy visit at the National Directorate Headquarters of the Scheme in Abuja over the weekend.
He expressed gratitude to the Management of NSPMC for being a leading employer of Corps services, thereby providing a platform for Corps Members to acquire Skills for reliance.
According to the NYSC helmsman, “the NYSC Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme is a sure way of addressing the problem of post-service unemployment, and has the capacity of stimulating positive multiplier effects in the nation’s economy”.
He added that the NYSC management had proposed the setting up of a Trust Fund which had passed first and second readings, as well as scaled theough public hearing at the National Assembly.
Gen. Ibrahim stressed that when the Trust Fund becomes operational, it would provide start-up capital for Corps Entrepreneurs and a sustainable platform for the growth and development of the Scheme.
Earlier, the Managing-Director of NSPMC, Alh. Abbas Umar Masanawa, informed the DG that they were at the NYSC Headquarters on a “Thank You” visit, in order to appreciate the Scheme’s sustained patronage of its services, especially in the printing of NYSC security documents, describing NYSC as a unique partner worthy of emulation by other government ministries, departments and agencies.
