Commander Guards Brigade, Brigadier General Adebisi Olusegun Onasanya, weekend lauded the management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) for mentoring corps members for leadership roles and empowering them with relevant skills towards self employment.
Brigadier General Adebisi said the Scheme’s skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development programme had increased the number of self-employed graduates in the country, thereby creating employment opportunities for other youth.
The commander stated this on his familiarisation visit to the NYSC National Directorate Headquarters in Abuja where he expressed satisfaction on the cordial relationship between NYSC and the Guards Brigade, but solicited for more robust collaboration as the new helmsman of the brigade.
A release by the director press and public telations of the Scheme, Eddy Magwa, quoted the NYSC Director General, Brigadier General YD Ahmed as stating in his response that, officers and men of the brigade had been of tremendous assistance to the Scheme within their areas of operational jurisdiction.
