The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Yu’shau Ahmed, has said 38,433 corps members have established
businesses through the scheme’s Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme.
Ahmed spoke at the SAED’s stakeholders’ meeting yesterday in Abuja.
He noted that through the programme, which was established 12 years ago, the NYSC had sensitised 3.306 million corps members on entrepreneurship development, with over 565,489 receiving various levels of training.
Also, Ahmed said 11,881 members were financially empowered by collaborating partners.
The DG explained that with over 350,000 graduate youths mobilised in its fold annually, NYSC remained the most critical influencer of Nigerian youths as agents of unity, peace, and development.
