The Federal Government says there is no plan to make the mandatory one year national youths service corps programme optional.
Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Dare, said this during the14th edition of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration Scorecard Series in Abuja.
He said the rationale behind the establishment of the scheme in 1973 was the need to promote unity in the country, noting that the livewire of any nation is its youths.
According to dare, the rationale behind establishing the NYSC by Yakubu Gowon still subsists, as every country and even Nigeria is still on a daily basis promoting its unity in diversity.
He that a committee to organise the celebration of the NYSC at 50 in May 2023 would be inaugurated on Wednesday.
