NYSC DG commends state govts for addressing lodging deficits

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Olakunle Nafiu, has recommended some states governments for addressing lodging deficits within the Scheme’s orientation camps throughout the nation.

He gave the commendation Friday whereas addressing corps members deployed to Lagos state for the 2026 Batch ‘C’ Stream II service 12 months on the NYSC short-term orientation camp, Iyana Ipaja, Lagos.

Nafiu disclosed that the Lagos state authorities was at present setting up a brand new 10,000-capacity NYSC everlasting orientation camp which, upon completion, would tackle the lodging challenges being skilled on the short-term camp in Iyana Ipaja.

He additionally stated that the governments of Adamawa, Gombe and Borno states have been at superior phases of delivering brand-new Orientation Camps to the Scheme, whereas current camps in Sokoto, Kwara, Enugu, Osun and another states have been present process in depth renovations to offer extra conducive coaching environments for corps members.

The NYSC helmsman attributed the lodging shortfall in orientation camps nationwide to the numerous enhance within the variety of tertiary establishments and graduates in recent times, together with Nigerians who obtained their {qualifications} from overseas establishments.

“Before now, we used to mobilise about 100,000 graduates annually, and that was when most of the orientation camps in the country were built. Currently, however, we mobilise up to 450,000 graduates. This means that the population we have to cater for is far beyond the carrying capacities of the existing structures,” he stated.

He, subsequently, appealed to different state governments to develop the capability of NYSC orientation camps of their respective states to accommodate, at the least, 5,000 corps members every, describing the efforts as a “sustainable way of addressing the ever-increasing population of prospective corps members.”