Acting Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Mrs Christy I Uban has said the signing of the Scheme's Trust Fund bill into law would empower corps members after service.
Mrs Uban stated this shortly after the inspection tour of the construction of 700 male and 700 female bed capacity hostel at the NYSC camp Issele Uku in Delta State.
According to her, the Trust fund will go a long way at providing resources for the NYSC to empower corps members at the end of their service year , thereby providing them with start up capital to enable them own businesses of theirs.
She stressed that the fund would create resources for a greater percentage of corps members trained under the NYSC skill acquisition programmes.
According to her the NYSC Management is awaiting President Muhammadu Buhari assent, to the bill due to its importance .
The DG noted that the SAED started in 2012 and had established various skill acquisitions training programmes in camps to harness the potentials of corps members.
She noted that after three weeks of training many corps members would have become employers of labour there by become major contributors to the nations economic development.
The Minister for Youths and Sports Mr Sunday Dare commended the state government for its contributions towards youth and national development.
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