The district head of Miri, a community in Bauchi State, Hussaini Abubakar Usman, has called on the federal government to scrap the one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
He made the call at the weekend in a paper titled: “MSSN and The Challenges of Self-reliance”, which he presented at the inaugural lecture organised by the Bauchi State Area Unit of MSSN.
Usman said graduates should instead be taught life-supporting skills to make them useful members of the society while adding value to the country’s economy.
He said the founding creed of NYSC had been eroded, hence rendering huge tax payers’ money to waste.
Usman argued that the government ought to support graduates with skills in critical areas of the Nigerian economy such as agriculture, metal fabrication, businesses, ICT and blue economy to create wealth for themselves and the nation.
He called on Nigerian youths to come up with innovations and inventions in the area of ICT.
A former president of MSSN Bauchi State, Dr Rabi’u Barau Bal, commended the members of the group for their support and encouraged them to extend the same to the new leaders.
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