Fed Govt launches empowerment scheme for corps members

The Special Adviser to the President on Special
Duties and Social Development Matters Sarah
Pane has launched a Discovery Empowerment
programme for members of the National Youth
Service Corps (NYSC).
The initiative was launched in collaboration with
the Discovery Cycle professionals to empower
youths against challenges facing workers.
She said since the inception of the NYSC in 1973,
over two million members have been trained
with over 100, 000 corps members passing
through the scheme yearly.
"Today," Pane said, "the scheme faces several
overwhelming problems, which include poor
quality of tertiary education graduates; and as a
result, the Discovery Empowerment Programme
was introduced to increase the intellectual
process and the capacity building of our future
leaders."
She said since the inception the scheme has
failed to transform to produce youths who would
be employable, noting that it is aimed at giving
training to corp members.
She said the training would involve
professionals, who would educate them on what
they want to do after their service either to
further their education abroad or applying for
jobs in a corporate body.
She thanked the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)
administration for its support for paying the fees
of some of the students. She urged other
corporate and professional bodies to take a cue
from it..
She said the body targets 3,000 corp members in
the FCT and at least 1000 corp members in every
state for training.