24th November, 2017
Mr Loto Bolade, Coordinator, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Bayelsa, has urged corps members deployed to the state to take entrepreneurship courses at the orientation camp seriously.
Bolade gave the advice on Friday in Kaiama, Kolokumo/Opokuma Local Government Area of the state.
He said the camp management had put in place all necessary measures to ensure that the course contents were strictly implemented.
1,616 corps members for the 2017/2018 Batch ‘B’ Stream 1 deployed to the state went through the swearing-in-ceremony on Nov. 23.
“The NYSC management in the state has put in all necessary measures to ensure that the orientation course contents for the batch are followed.
“This is to ensure that corps members are adequately prepared ahead of the service year.
“The orientation camp exercise is for three weeks and it provides an opportunity to prepare corps members for a better understanding and internationalisation of the ideals of the NYSC scheme.
“The exercise will also feature paramilitary drills, leadership training and lectures on critical aspects of our national life.
“I implore the corps members to be disciplined and take all the camp courses seriously in order to become self-reliant after the service year.
“The corps members will not only become acquainted with their immediate environment at the end of the three weeks exercise but also get equipped with practical social, leadership and self-dependent skills,” she said.
The coordinator said that embracing skills acquisition and entrepreneurship training would not only prepare the corps members ahead of the service year but also make them self-reliant.
Bolade said sound orientation exercise was pivotal to a successful service year.
She called for cooperation among camp officers to ensure a hitch-free exercise in the state.