PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has said as part of the reform of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, corps members would now be deployed to security-challenged states, guided by risk assessment.
He also reiterated that the scheme would be led by a civilian director-general and not military personnel as it was in the past.
The President equally said NYSC orientation programme would now become a six-week journey and that every corps member must leave NYSC better prepared for work, enterprise and national service.
Recall that the Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, and Special Adviser to the President on Policy and Coordination, Hadiza Bala Usman, had after the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting on Monday briefed journalists on the approved consequential reforms of NYSC scheme, established in 1973.
President Tinubu, on X account, Bola Ahmed Tinubu @ABAT, yesterday, said his administration was strengthening governance, standards and the dignity of the NYSC scheme.
He wrote: “On Monday, at the Federal Executive Council, our administration approved the most consequential reforms of the National Youth Service Scheme since its establishment in 1973.
