President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday ruled out
the possibility of scrapping the National Youth Service
Corps as being suggested in some quarters.
This was just as the NYSC management was considering the option of making the scheme voluntary in order to reduce the intake of corps members.
There had been calls for the scrapping of the scheme
since the outbreak of insurgency in parts of the country.
Insurgency had claimed the lives of some corps members in the northern parts of the country.
Proponents of the scrapping of the scheme had been
arguing that the NYSC had outlived its usefulness.
But a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, quoted Buhari as pledging that his administration would take all necessary actions to maintain and improve the scheme as a functional vehicle for the promotion of national unity and integration.

Adesina said the President gave the assurance after
receiving a briefing from officials of the Ministry of Youth
Development led by the Permanent Secretary of the
ministry, Mrs. Rabi Jimeta.
The President was said to have affirmed his confidence
and trust in the programme, saying that the objective for
which the scheme was established in 1973 was still very
relevant for national development.
“I firmly believe in the 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 President told the
ministry’s officials.

Jimeta told the President that the increasing number of
NYSC participants posed a challenge to the scheme due to the dwindling revenue from the national budget to cater for their needs.
She told the President that the annual enrolment of
participants in the scheme had increased from 2,364 at
inception in 1974 to 229,016 in 2014.
“Given the increasing number of tertiary institutions, our
projection is that the number of corps participants may
rise to 300,000 by year 2020,’’ she said.
Adesina also quoted the Director General of the NYSC,
Brig.-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, as telling the President that there were plans to make the scheme voluntary.
This, he said, Adewunmi explained was meant to reduce
the corps population in order to make the programme
more sustainable.

http://www.punchng.com/news/buhari-rules-out-scrapping-of-nysc-scheme-2/

Some people won't be happy with this news.

Some won't still serve sef whether they scrap it or not. Others will do ghost mode. God dey!

I go with my President's decision, but the government should increase the allawee for the Corpers, let them start enjoying what we could not. God bless Nigeria.

i tire o... if dem carry person go Borno now, who wan release me for house? LOL

ladyF:
Some people won't be happy with this news.

Some won't still serve sef whether they scrap it or not. Others will do ghost mode. God dey!

something should sha be done... people cannot be dying because of NYSC o

Of course he will not, the last time I check its the north that reap from the program.

ladyF:
Some people won't be happy with this news.

Some won't still serve sef whether they scrap it or not. Others will do ghost mode. God dey!

in as much as I dnt abide by the scrapping tin, I think wen u a corp member u'll unserstand why some are on ghost mode

I think if the scheme is improved we will all enjoy it let's say we get 100k am sure some people will want to continue even after passing out we just want them to improve the funds and also I think there is need to increase the funds because I understand this pay is supposed to cover housing, feeding, up keep now how is 19k supposed to do that #ImproveNotScrap