The training of Corps members under the
NYSC Skills Acquisition and
Entrepreneurship Development Programme
(SAED) is set to commence in all
Orientation Camps on Monday, 31st July,
2017.

The programme, which commenced in
2012, is aimed at contributing towards
curbing the rate of graduate unemployment
in the country.
So far, nine hundred and sixteen thousand
(916, 000) Corps members have been
sensitized since the commencement of the
programme.

GAINS OF SAED PROGRAMM

Here are some of the gains of the SAED
programme over the past years:

1. NYSC has successfully entered into
partnership with stakeholders, including
the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Bank of
Industry (BOI), and the Heritage Bank, with
a view to empowering interested Corps
members with start-up capital to fund
businesses conceived after the SAED
training;

2. NYSC/BOI Graduate Empowerment Fund
(GEF), which kicked off in 2015, has so far
granted business loans to 407 Corps
Entrepreneurs. Maximum amount per
beneficiary is Two Million Naira (N2m).

3. The CBN/NYSC Youth Entrepreneurship
Development Programme (YEDP) kicked off
in 2016, and has so far granted loans of
Three Million Naira (N3m) each to seven
serving Corps members and many Ex-Corps
members;
NOTE: All the loans are given at single
digit interest.

4. NYSC is partnering with stakeholders in
the private sector to build Zonal Integrated
Skills ACQUISITION AND
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Centres in all six
geo-political zones.

The one for South-West has been
completed in Ekiti State. That of the North-
East has reached advanced stage in Gombe
while construction work on the one for the
South-South was officially flagged off early
July 2017 in Delta State.

Why work for others when you can be your
own master?

Won’t you rather give job to others?
NYSC SAED offers you opportunity for self-
employment and wealth creation.


SOURCE : www.ngschoolgist.com/2017/07/nysc-opportunities-for-self-employment.html?m=1

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