FG to reopen NYSC camp November 10

All orientation camps for the National Youth Service Corp will be reopened across the country on November 10, the Federal Government has said.

This is coming about seven months after the camps were shut to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic among young graduates and other people in the camps.

The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, gave the reopening date in a tweet on Thursday.

He, however, said total compliance with the COVID-19 protocols would be enforced.

“The resumption of the NYSC orientation camp for prospective youth corpers has been approved and opens on November 10th 2020. Full COVID-19 protocols will be enforced,” he tweeted.

The NYSC orientation camps across the country were specifically shut on March 18.

Meanwhile, the authorities of the NYSC in Anambra State on Wednesday celebrated 12 corps members serving in the state that got married.

The new couples, according to a Punch report, who were of the 2019 Batch C set, said they met each other at the orientation camp before their primary assignments at their different organisations in the state.

Their names were given as Eze Obinna and Oluchi Peace, Henry Nwachoko and Charles Ruth, Oluchukwu Davis and Ahedo Etiosa.

Others are Nsofor Obianuju and Ohale Nkemakolam, Ogburie Collins and Nwokearu Chinyeremaka, Bernard Faith Amarachi and Okafor Chukwudi.

The NYSC State Coordinator, Kehinde Aremu, described the event as unprecedented in the history of the scheme.

He attributed this to the favourable environment and friendly disposition of the people of the state and the government.

Aremu said, “We thank Governor Willie Obiano for creating a conducive environment and his commitment towards welfare of corps members in the state.”