The federal government has approved a sweeping overhaul of the National Youth Service Corps, splitting the orientation programme into three distinct phases among other changes.
It also introduced 11 specialised career streams from which corps members will choose at registration, according to details provided by Hadiza Bala Usman, special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on policy coordination, on Monday.
The Federal Executive Council approved the comprehensive reform of the 53-year-old scheme on Monday, with the minister of youth development, Ayodele Olawande, describing it as the first holistic review of NYSC since the programme was established in 1973.
Briefing State House correspondents alongside Olawande after the FEC meeting in Abuja, Usman explained how the reform would restructure the orientation camp experience and reshape the way corps members are trained and deployed.
The orientation camp to run in three phases
