FCT minister to corps members: Exploit SAED experience for job creation

Minister of State Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has advised corps members to make maximum use of their experience during skills acquisition entrepreneurship development (SAED) trainings to sustain themselves during this period of unemployment and gloomy global economic situation.

She stated this Monday during the closing ceremony of the 2019 Batch ‘B’ Stream II orientation course for corps members held at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) permanent orientation camp, Kubwa, Abuja.

Aliyu said that corps members should engage in constructive and creative endeavours that could culminate into self-employment after service, though government is championing poverty reduction through wealth creation.

She said: “I congratulate the corps members for their discipline during the three-week orientation course, which I hope they will keep throughout the service year and beyond. The global economic situation has affected every sector negatively. Worse hit is employment. Therefore, there is need for corps members to engage in constructive and creative endeavours in the course of the one year service.

“They have been equipped with the pre-requisite knowledge through SAED trainings and they should exploit this part of self employment, since white collar jobs are increasingly becoming few. As corps members, you should go to the nooks and crannies of the FCT where your services are needed to make the required difference.”

Also speaking, the FCT Coordinator of NYSC, Hajiya Walida Saddique Isa, said that the corps have shown a lot of drive, initiative, resilience and ability to recognise themselves as a group; which goes a long way to show their level of preparedness to render diligent service to the nation, even as she expressed gratitude to FCTA, NYSC NDHQ and the six area councils of the FCT for their undying support.

“These corps members have been posted to both public and private sectors of the economy for their primary assignment. Some will find themselves in the rural communities and I urge them to put in their best, contribute and act as veritable instruments of integrity and unity,” she said.

She further advised corps members to regard their service as a call to duty and accept their postings without seeking to change their places of primary assignment, but identify and use realistic means to finding lasting solutions to the problems that confront their host communities. 

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