“The National Youth Service Corps provides for the youths a much-needed platform for self-realization and for contributing their essential quota in the realization of our national objectives of building a strong, united self-reliant nation.”
Nigeria is currently the seventh most populous country in the world with a total population projected to reach 236 million by 2030 and 410 million by 2050 making her the fastest-growing among the 10 most populous countries globally and projected to exceed the U.S. as the third-largest by 2050, according to the United Nations. Yet, Nigeria has a median age of 18.4 years of age.
In the February 14, 2020 anti-corruption walk led by the EFCC, the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr.
To raise the moral tone of our youths by giving them the opportunity to learn about higher ideals of national achievement and social and cultural improvement; To induce employers, partly through their experience with service corps members, to employ more readily qualified Nigerians irrespective of their states of origin; andThe General Gowon spoke to this objectives during the inauguration of the NYSC Directorate on June 4, 1973 when he said:
Similar circumstances and background led to the establishment of the EFCC focusing on another monster of the Nigerian society, corruption and allied practices. The Group 7 countries’ summit in 1989 established the Financial Action Task Force on money laundering, which by 2001 had blacklisted Nigeria as a non-cooperative country.
First, both NYSC and the EFCC were set up to combat the entrenched menaces of moral decay resulting in tribalism and corruption. Second, both agencies are legally considered to be very important to the continuous existence of Nigeria that while the former is made a part of the Constitution, the latter is endowed with wide investigation and prosecution powers not only with effect to crimes created under its establishing law but also related laws.
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