COVID-19: NYSC Mulls Reopening Of Orientation Camps After Lockdown
The Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has said that the scheme is putting strategies to enable a safe and efficient conduct of its operations ahead of further lifting of restrictions on socio-economic activities in the country. In a statement signed by Director, Press and Public Relations department of the scheme, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, said the DG disclosed this when he visited the Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu in Abuja. Ibrahim noted that the scheme suspended the 2020 Batch ‘A’ Stream One Orientation Course just one week into the exercise as a proactive measure to avert the spread of COVID-19 to any of the Orientation Camps. He said due to the possibility of further or complete lifting of lockdown, the strategies mapped out by the NYSC Management had taken care of various scenarios, and would be presented to the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 through the NCD