BY DARE ADEKOYA, Batch A Corps member, Lagos

The Lagos State Coordinator for National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs. Adenike Adeyemi has charged the 2013 Batch A corps members to utilise the opportunity given them to acquire requisite vocational skills that will make them employers of labour rather than fervent job seekers,  stressing that they have no excuse to be unemployed after their one year compulsory youth service.

Adeyemi who made this charge in one of the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development Programmes (SAED) organised to empower youth corps members, noted that it is geared towards helping them acquire vocational skills that will help them contribute to national development.

“There is no excuse for anyone of you to complain of unemployment after your one year compulsory service to your fatherland, as government has put in place the NYSC scheme to help talented graduates via planned programs of actions like SAED. In the SAED programme, we have skills acquisition, training, job search centre, ICT training powered by Microsoft and a host of others.”

On her part, the Lagos NYSC SAED Coordinator, Mrs. Rachel Adaewoh, said the scheme is determined to help corps members develop their potentials to the fullest during their service year. “Youth corps members are enjoined to embrace the programme so as to become better skilled professionals alongside their course of study,” she admonished.