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The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier Ibrahim Shuaibu has said there are no plans to begin new batch mobilisation across the country due to the dreaded coronavirus pandemic.
Brigadier Shuaibu said only Batch A, Stream 1, who were last mobilised but asked to leave orientation camp nationwide due to COVID-19, would be asked to complete the compulsory scheme.
In an interview with Economic Confidential, the NYSC DG stated: “We don’t know when we are going to start mobilising our corps members. You know our training is also structured like that of the military and paramilitary. You can see that the Nigerian Navy recently suspended its training for its freshly recruited cadets.
“So, the moment the coast is clear, we are going to key into the way others will conduct their exercise, so that our corps members can be called back soonest.”
Recall that Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare, had announced on Twitter on Friday March 27, that all NYSC orientation camps and four stadia in the country were to be used as isolation centres, with the approval of the President, Muhammadu Buhari.
