PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has promised that his administration would take all necessary actions to maintain and improve the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme as a functional vehicle for the promotion of national unity and integration.

This is just as the Director General of the scheme, Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi, said there were plans to make the scheme voluntary and reduce the corps population to make the programme more sustainable.

Buhari gave the assurance after receiving a briefing from officials of the Federal Ministry of Youth Development led by the Permanent Secretary, Mrs. Rabi Jimeta.

According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, made available to State House correspondents after the briefing, the president affirmed his confidence and trust in the programme, saying that the objective for which the scheme was established in 1973 was still relevant for national development.

Buhari said: "I firmly believe in NYSC and I think it should remain a national programme to promote integration. Whenever I go home to Daura, I look out for corps members from Lagos, Aba and other parts of the country.

"I am always thrilled to learn that except for the NYSC, some of them have never left their states of origin to visit other cities in the country."

The Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier-General Johnson Olawumi, told the president that there were plans to make the scheme voluntary and reduce the corps population to make the programme more sustainable.

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FTC. The poster below me have more to say!

This is due since 1990.



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