By Ene Osang
Abuja
Corps members have been urged to always respect the culture and tradition of host communities in order to avoid getting into conflict with anyone of them.
This was contained in a statement from the NYSC news desk, which indicated that the Director-General, Brig.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, gave the charge at the weekend while addressing corps members at the NYSC Orientation Camp, Kusallah Dam Karaye, Kano state.
According to the statement, Kazaure enjoined the corps members to avoid “unnecessary journeys and seek permission from constituted authorities within the NYSC Scheme if they have genuine reasons to travel.”
It urged them to avoid social vices like drug addiction, hooliganism, among others, and embrace good moral virtues in the discharge of their duties to their fatherland.
“There is no short cut to success. Be determined and contribute your own quota to the development of the country. Do your work diligently and be a very good ambassador of your family, school and NYSC,” it read in part.
Earlier, in his address, NYSC Kano state Coordinator, Alhaji Baba Ladan, informed the Director-General that a total of 2,368 corps members comprising 1,151 females and 1, 217 males took the Oath of Allegiance during the swearing in ceremonies.
He added that all camp officials had been committed to duty as team players with a high sense of responsibility.
“The corps members have acclimatised to the rudiments of regimented camp life,” he said.
