NYSC organises skill acquisition programme for 781 Borno corps members in Katsina

National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has trained 781 2022 Batch A, Stream I Borno corps members on 12 different skill acquisition programmes.

Newsmen reports that the programme was organised by the corps under its Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Department (SAED).

Speaking at the closing of the programme at the Borno temporary orientation camp in Katsina, the state NYSC Coordinator, Alhaji Nura Umar, said that the training was introduced to tackle unemployment in the country.

Umar said that the programme was aimed at building the entrepreneurship, skills and business mentality of the corps members.

According to him, the programme has been helping corps members since inception, even as he commended them for their commitment during the nine-day training.

The coordinator, who called on the corps members to sustain their commitment, even after their one-year service, explained that there were testimonies from those who had started making a living with the help of the SAED programme.

Umar said that at the end of the training, many participants would not need to buy certain products since they could now produce them on their own.

While commending the head of SAED department, he advised the corps members to save part of their allowances as start-up capital at the end of their programme.

A corps member, Safiya Ahmed, who studied Agriculture Education, but participated in plumbing in the camp, said it was a wonderful experience for her.

“I never expected that I could learn plumbing in my life, but with the training I had in the camp, I can now train others,” she said.

Also, Aisha Abdulhamid, a corps member, who studied Physics with Electronics, but participated in producing interlocks, assured of setting up the business after her service.

Abdulhamid explained that she never expected that producing interlocks was very easy and lucrative.

Similarly, Alexander Matthew, a corps member, who studied statistics, succeeded in producing a solar power generating system, which he learned during the nine-day programme.

According to him, nothing can stop him from establishing the business after the service.

Newsmen reports that the 12 skill acquisition programmes covered agro-allied, automobile, beautification, construction, cosmetology as well as culture and tourism.

Others were: education, environment, film and photography, food processing/preservation, ICT and power and energy.