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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 10 May 2021 Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, in this interview with FRIDAY OLOKOR, explains the relevance of the scheme to national development Some critics believe that the NYSC is indirectly fuelling unemployment in Nigeria because there are employers that rely on corps members every time there is mobilisation rather than employing permanent workers. How do you address this? Not at all. The NYSC is not fuelling unemployment. The NYSC members contribute to our national development. Some corps members are retained by their employers on a permanent basis. But apart from that, they also learn a lot from their places of primary assignment. And to address this challenge of unemployment, the NYSC introduced a skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development programme for corps members and we have partnered various stakeholders like the Bank of Industry, the Central Bank of Nigeria, ....