{"id":63758,"date":"2025-04-04T08:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T08:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63758"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T08:12:17","slug":"wike-vows-more-backing-for-nysc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/04\/wike-vows-more-backing-for-nysc\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Vows More Backing for NYSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has pledged sustained support for the National Youth Service Corps, describing it as a vital force for national unity and development.<\/p>\n<p>Wike, who was represented by the Mandate Secretary for Youth and Sports, Abdullahi Suleiman, made this known at the 2025 Batch A pre-mobilisation workshop held in Abuja on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that the FCT Administration would continue to provide corps members with the tools and assistance needed for a productive service year.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the NYSC\u2019s impact on preparing young graduates for the labour market, Wike called on all stakeholders to strengthen the scheme through collaboration and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks come as conversations continue nationwide on reforming the NYSC to meet current economic demands and improve corps members\u2019 welfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has pledged sustained support for the National Youth Service Corps, describing it as a vital force for national unity and development. Wike, who was represented by the Mandate Secretary for Youth and Sports, Abdullahi Suleiman, made this known at the 2025 Batch A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63760,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63758\/revisions\/63760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}