My own take on this NYSC matter is that the NYSC program should be reviewed.

1. NYSC program should not be mandatory
2. NYSC program should involve at least 1 compulsory vocational training


What's your take on this

Tinubu's plan is to weaponise and militarize NYSC so that every Nigerian adult is battle ready Incase of Russia/Ukraine style invasion

Without prejudice or bias go and listen to his doctored speech at Arewa house Kaduna on Agbado and Cassava feeding 5million military reserve

Who will be teaching students in the North and the interior of the Southwest?

MadamExcellency:
Who will be teaching students in the North and the interior of the Southwest?

it is the responsibility of state government to employ teachers ...as many as it's required. Teaching should not be the obligation of our fresh graduates.

MadamExcellency:
Who will be teaching students in the North and the interior of the Southwest?

that remains the headache of state governments

MadamExcellency:
Who will be teaching students in the North and the interior of the Southwest?

And the South east and South south too?

(I served in the South east, there is a scarcity of teachers in the rural areas )

lexylaw09:
My own take on this NYSC matter is that the NYSC program should be reviewed.

1. NYSC program should not be mandatory
2. NYSC program should involve at least 1 compulsory vocational training


What's your take on this

Scrap NYSC today, and I guarantee you the illiteracy level in Nigeria would rise tenfold.

Most of your schools in villages and even some parts of cities rely on NYSC to plug teaching gaps.

Also, health care will suffer massively.

Until you Nigerians are willing to work in the villages as badly as you want to work in the city, NYSC has to remain.

So for ur mind, u are playing tribal cards here. point out which region in Nigeria that doesn't have interior? or are corpers posted only in the north and southwest?

MadamExcellency:
Who will be teaching students in the North and the interior of the Southwest?

Tinubu should stop politicians from running away after collecting certificate of return from INEC

@op no longer wants to serve his fatherland

Spoiler alert!!! To serve your father's land is now by force😅

How will he cancel what he didn't attend.

For real I think NYSC is useless

lexylaw09:
For real I think NYSC is useless

Because you live in the city, where there is a glut of professionals to serve you.

Village people on the other hand, don't have enough medical people for their health centers, and teachers for their schools...that is where NYSC comes in.

Tinubu should implement pastor Tunde Bakare's agenda on NYSC. It'll revolutionalise and industrialise Nigeria's agricultural sector creating millions of formal jobs like it's in developed countries.

He shouldn't. Rather transform the program into more skill acquisition period.

lexylaw09:
My own take on this NYSC matter is that the NYSC program should be reviewed.

1. NYSC program should not be mandatory
2. NYSC program should involve at least 1 compulsory vocational training


What's your take on this

Oga, please constitution. 10 Tinubus plus 10 Obis plus 10 Buharis cannot "cancel" NYSC. It is a program established by law and it wll take the whole of the National Assembly to do it. The North benefits so much from NYSC and so it will not be cancelled.

nairalanda1:


Because you live in the city, where there is a glut of professionals to serve you.

Village people on the other hand, don't have enough medical people for their health centers, and teachers for their schools...that is where NYSC comes in.

And thata why the Northern senarors will never agree to cancelling it.

GreyLaw:


And thata why the Northern senarors will never agree to cancelling it.

The South too needs corpers.

Especially in the teaching and health sector

(I served in the South East, so I know what I am talking about)

Modified

Before you start, this isn't a North-South thing. People don't like working in the rural areas really. I once read an article by a journalist who did NYSC in a village in Anambra state. Any teacher sent there by the Anambra ministry of education to the village secondary school promptly got reposted to a town. Na NYSC corpers, one or two teachers, and the principal that were running the show.

The matter is serious. It is even worse when it comes to health care self.

nairalanda1:


Because you live in the city, where there is a glut of professionals to serve you.

Village people on the other hand, don't have enough medical people for their health centers, and teachers for their schools...that is where NYSC comes in.

That doesn't mean Nigerian university graduates should be forced to spend an entire year at the start of their professional lives in indentured servitude. If villages need teachers and doctors, let their LGAs and state governments pay hardship bonuses to those willing to live in the bush.

omohayek:

That doesn't mean Nigerian university graduates should be forced to spend an entire year at the start of their professional lives in indentured servitude. If villages need teachers and doctors, let their LGAs and state governments pay hardship bonuses to those willing to live in the bush.

It's not necessarily about the money...cities, even in developed areas , have more amenities, life, opportunities, and crucially entertainment than the villages.

I like using the internet. Even if I was sent by the state to a village, and paid a million naira monthly, can the state guarantee me that I would have the same level of internet I get in the city, compared to the village, where I would most likely get 2g internet? Or none.?

Can the state guarantee that I can get good schools in the village like the ones in the city? Especially if the school is a private school like the posh ones in some cities?

Even if Nigeria was developed, the trend these days is for people to move to the city. Rural areas don't get much in terms of money for development. The city is where it is at.

nairalanda1:

It's not necessarily about the money...cities, even in developed areas , have more amenities, life, opportunities, and crucially entertainment than the villages.

I like using the internet. Even if I was sent by the state to a village, and paid a million naira monthly, can the state guarantee me that I would have the same level of internet I get in the city, compared to the village, where I would most likely get 2g internet? Or none.?

Can the state guarantee that I can get good schools in the village like the ones in the city? Especially if the school is a private school like the posh ones in some cities?

Even if Nigeria was developed, the trend these days is for people to move to the city. Rural areas don't get much in terms of money for development. The city is where it is at.

Sure, cities are more attractive, but that still doesn't justify treating fresh university graduates like slaves to be deployed willy nilly. For one thing, there is a huge hidden opportunity cost to robbing people at the peak of their physical and mental powers of an entire year in which they could be honing their skills, building the companies of tomorrow that will power the country out of its economic stagnation. How old were Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg when they started their businesses? Imagine if the USA had forced them to spend that initial year of their lives teaching in primary schools in the middle of nowhere?

As for the notion that no amount of money will convince people to willingly move to the countryside, I think the evidence strongly argues to the contrary. At this very moment large numbers of Nigerians are risking their lives making dangerous crossings through the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean ocean, all in order to try to make money working as underpaid illegal immigrants with no rights, perpetually living in fear of the police. How many of those wouldn't gladly take 2x a city-based teacher's pay to teach in Nigerian rural areas instead, where they would be treated with respect rather than meet the racist contempt they are guaranteed to face in Europe?

In any case, there is a more economically sensible way to deal with a shortage of skilled workers in Nigeria's rural areas, assuming LGAs and state governments refuse to do their duty: rural residents can simply move to the city. This is an option no one needs to tell them to take, as we see it happen every day in huge numbers. Were it not for the relative lack of birth control in the countryside, this shift in the population would be easier to see. There is no country in the world with a functioning economy where large numbers of highly-skilled people are forced into relatively low-skilled rural labor during their prime years - you only see such things in communist basketcases like China during Mao's "Cultural Revolution" in the 1960s.

Its just one year. Like most graduates have anything productive waiting for them

No he should not cancel it

He can make it optional though

omohayek:

Sure, cities are more attractive, but that still doesn't justify treating fresh university graduates like slaves to be deployed willy nilly. For one thing, there is a huge hidden opportunity cost to robbing people at the peak of their physical and mental powers of an entire year in which they could be honing their skills, building the companies of tomorrow that will power the country out of its economic stagnation. How old were Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg when they started their businesses? Imagine if the USA had forced them to spend that initial year of their lives teaching in primary schools in the middle of nowhere?

As for the notion that no amount of money will convince people to willingly move to the countryside, I think the evidence strongly argues to the contrary. At this very moment large numbers of Nigerians are risking their lives making dangerous crossings through the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean ocean, all in order to try to make money working as underpaid illegal immigrants with no rights, perpetually living in fear of the police. How many of those wouldn't gladly take 2x a city-based teacher's pay to teach in Nigerian rural areas instead, where they would be treated with respect rather than meet the racist contempt they are guaranteed to face in Europe?

In any case, there is a more economically sensible way to deal with a shortage of skilled workers in Nigeria's rural areas, assuming LGAs and state governments refuse to do their duty: rural residents can simply move to the city. This is an option no one needs to tell them to take, as we see it happen every day in huge numbers. Were it not for the relative lack of birth control in the countryside, this shift in the population would be easier to see. There is no country in the world with a functioning economy where large numbers of highly-skilled people are forced into relatively low-skilled rural labor during their prime years - you only see such things in communist basketcases like China during Mao's "Cultural Revolution" in the 1960s.

I very much agree with you

Yes he should cancel the program because it's just a year of government extracting cheap labor out graduates. It would be better for the graduates if they just begin their careers earlier. I don't think he would if the poll below is to be believed.

Nysc for life