Coordinator urges Corps members to transfer skills to students
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Skills
By Yashim Katurak
Abuja, April 4, 2017 (NAN) Mr Abdulrazak Salawu, FCT Coordinator, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has appealed to corps members trained in various skills to impact such knowledge to primary and secondary school students during their primary assignment.
Salawu in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja, said this would enable the students acquire skills from an early stage and prepare for a more productive life in the future.
“If we catch them young at an early age, when they have become fully grown, they will have good background in different skills,’’ Salawu said.
According to him, all they would require was to support them in accessing loans to start up their business.
“When corps members learn these skills, we encourage them to impact them to schools children so that the children in the primary and secondary schools can have a good start off.
According to him, if we catch these children at the early age before they are fully grown, they will become professionals in different skills in their future endeavour.
“What they will need at that point is how to access loans to start up their businesses.
“Since I assumed duty as the NYSC Coordinator in FCT, I have tried to canvass for public and private partnership and support in the provision of training materials for corps members.
“It is difficult to train these corps members with little or no training materials and so we need support from well meaning individuals and organisations; these corps members have what it takes to impact positively on the society,” Salawu said.
He said that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has requested to train some corps members in various skills acquisition programmes and also to equip them to be self-employed.
According to Salawu, this move by the CBN is part of its corporate social responsibility to the people and to contribute its quota in reducing unemployment in the country.
The coordinator said the move was also to give other individuals and organisations the push needed to provide the necessary support to those around them.
He said the scheme would continue to seek for support from the public in the training of corps members as they were a segment of society that had the wherewithal to support growth and development in the country. (NAN)
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Edited by Julius Enehikhuere/Muhammad Suleiman Tola