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Youth Service Corps in terms of its significance in our polity, and its impacts. Over the years the NYSC has also become a national development tool. It has also become a political tool to either support or disparage political opponents. Therefore, I find it necessary to x-ray the NYSC scheme from a historical and current situation perspective, and also recommend how the NYSC could be in a better position for national development.
But about 20 years ago, the quality and impacts of the NYSC started to decline. Even though, in my opinion, the NYSC is still relevant, the scheme is losing its momentum and inertia has set in. Consequently, I urge the Mr.
It is worthy of note that a 50-year national initiative without structural and system reviews and reforms; in terms of relevance and impact is certainly becoming outdated. We must realize that there is an immediate need to review the scheme in terms of vision, strategy, legislation, operations, etc.
•Privileged/ rich parents, guardians, wards, or even the graduates themselves, influence the re-routing of the PPA for their children to their areas of comfort so that they will not “suffer”, while the children of the poor are left with no option but to take whatever they see and suffer the vagaries.
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