Jamila Bio-Ibrahim, the minister of youth development, has said that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) would be restructured soon in order for it to meet the demands of the future.
Bio-Ibrahim noted that a team that will execute the review, restructuring, and reforms of the NYSC would be inaugurated soon.
She said: “Permit me to inform us very briefly that on what is to come regarding NYSC reforms. I’m pleased to announce that I will be inaugurating a team to undertake the review, restructuring, and reforms of the NYSC. The first of these reforms will be centred on reviewing participants with an entrepreneurship mindset and making skills development a core of the programme.
“The NYSC already does that but the objective is to work with them to strengthen what that mandate that they already have more efficient, effective, and beneficiary.
“So we envision a future where the NYSC programmes are not only self-sustained but also a revenue-generating programme within the next five years and to achieve this, we will institutionalise the NYSC ventures as an investment and asset management outfit.