Covid-19: NYSC DG Urges Corps Members To Get Vaccinated

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier General Shuabu Ibrahim has reminded corps members that it is compulsory to take the COVID-19 vaccine, urging anyone who has not taken to do so.

Brigadier General Ibrahim also reminded them of the federal government’s directive that beginning from the first day of December, vaccination would become a condition to gaining entrance to government offices, hence the need for them to be vaccinated.

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The admonition is contained in the address of the Director-General to the closing ceremony of the Orientation course for Batch C stream one 2021 corps members.

In the address presented on his behalf by the Osun State Coordinator of the NYSC, Mrs. Winifred Shokpeka at the Permanent Orientation Camp in Ede, Osun State, the NYSC boss warned the corps members against engagement in the local politics of their host communities.

He encouraged them to undertake personal and community development service projects that would help to lift the living standard of the people of their service communities.

While urging them to take seriously, the Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development, SAED, programme, Brigadier General Ibrahim stressed that the service was liaising with financial institutions and other stakeholders with a view to providing soft loans to enable the corps members to actualize their business dreams.

He also cautioned them against night travels and night parties, urging them to cut short their journey, once it is six o’clock in the evening and pass the night at any military formation.

In her own address, the Osun State coordinator, Mrs Winifred Shokpeka advised the corps members to heed the admonition of the Director-General to make the service year a memorable one for them.

Mrs. Shokpeka advised them to accept their postings in good faith with a determination to make an impact in their host communities.

She urged corps employers to treat those posted to their places well and mentor them with a view to making them better Nigerians.

Adenitan Akinola