The following are the Aims and objectives of the Peace Corps of Nigeria as passed by the National Assembly 2017.

Aims & Objectives

The Aims and Objectives of Peace Corps are as follows:

(a) Promote Social and Economic Development by involving Members and Volunteers in the scheme through working with Government, Schools, Non-Profit Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations, etc. in order to preoccupy the youths;

(b) To empower and pre-occupy Nigerian Youths through job creation and provision of alternative employment;

(c) Training Nigerian Youths with good virtuous, strong passion and commitment to the art of Patriotism, Volunteerism Community Services and Nation Building;

(d) To train and equip the Youths with knowledge for Peace Education, Conflict Resolution, Mediation, Reconciliation and Confidence Building;

(e) To give distinct orientation to the Youths and engage them in the provision of essential services such as:

(i) Involving members of the Peace Corps in Community Services such as Immunization, Census and Sanitation Exercises, especially in urban cities, States and Local Government Capitals;

(ii) Provision of Refuse Bins, Waste Baskets, and Handy Waste Bags in public buildings, buses and schools in order to obliterate littered materials;

(iii) Assisting in planting of Economic trees and all forms of environmental conservation.

(iv) Involve members and Volunteers of the Peace Corps in crowd control during public events and in neighborhood watch in order to curb insecurity within the community.

(f) Create a Data Bank and reservoir of trained, qualified professionals and non-professional youths for easy accessibility of manpower from the pool of well-groomed youths whenever the Nation needs their services for either permanent employment or ad-hoc manpower for such national or international programmes as Emergency Relief Services, Voters’ Registration, Election Exercise , etc.

(g) Provide security for all Educational Institutions and checking all forms of examination malpractices and other vices prevalent in Schools and Colleges in order to create a conducive atmosphere for learning. To achieve these, the Peace Corps shall:

(i) Establish Peace Corps Club in Schools and Colleges and involving members of the club in the promotion of internal understanding, Peace Education, Conflict Management and Transformation;

(ii) Maintain surveillance on students organizing secrete societies; identify their members, associates, modus operandi and to make such discoveries known to the appropriate authorities;

(iii) Assist the school authority in the maintenance and enforcement of School Rules and Regulations;

(iv) Detect any plot to vandalize valuable properties of the school or college or any form of dissident act of rioting by students or intruders in order to promote internal peace and security;

(v) Organize Holiday Camps for students where they would be involved in less academic work, but more of games, creative work, martial art, citizenship and leadership training, as well as other extra-curricular programmes and;

(vi) Organize special conferences, seminars and workshops in order to equip the Nigerian youths in Leadership Building Mechanism, so as to prepare them both mentally, morally and physically for their future leadership roles.

(h) Assist in youth developmental activities, Empowerment and Capacity Building for youth Creativity and Innovations, such as:

(i) Identify tools, techniques and the process of critical thinking, creativity, innovation and discovery to facilitate problem solving;

(ii) Initiate and involving the youths in Humanitarian Services in Nigeria and around the world in order to aid transfer of knowledge and Technology;

(iii) Helping the People of interested countries in meeting their needs for training young Men and Women and to promote a better understanding of Nigerians on the parts of the peoples served;

(iv) Serve as Orderlies to members of the Executives, Parliament, Judiciary and Traditional Rulers that are not covered by existing Security Agencies;

(v) Engage Members as Tourists Assistants and Guide to Nigerian and foreigners on visit to the Country, Tourists Sites and other National and State Monuments and Heritage;

(vi) Creation and Management of Public Toilets on highways, including enlightenment against defecation in public places, Recreational Centers, Tourist Sites, etc.; and

(vii) To check all Forms of Examination Malpractices as may be perpetrated by students, invigilators, teachers, lecturers, and other educational staff.

you guys should let us be and have peace from this peace corp abi na war corp matter

Peace Corp is necessary. Imagine the number of youths and families it will help

Just forego 40% of your salary so that the peace corp members can be paid. Useless legislooters

The Peace Corp is a voluntary organization and it can be as big as whatever the promoters want to dream. However, the attempt to force government to take it over is one of the most ill-advised moves anyone can think of.

The Civil Defence Force was the last major element of security architecture we needed to make formal, that has been done. Whoever, wants to get employed can either get employed there or any of the myriad of Armed Forces and security agencies we have. The National Park Rangers have also been given the recognition they deserve which is the global practice.

The Peace Corp is no different from Man O' War, Boys Scouts, Boys Brigades and the likes. Run your private organization and stop trying to cover the deceit of young people ignorantly joining the organization at their own expense.

Who pays them??

This is trash even though I supported the bill because of the jobs it was going to create.

Nice objectives, why not establish it as NGO