{"id":65423,"date":"2025-05-07T14:04:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65423"},"modified":"2025-05-07T14:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:04:35","slug":"fg-moves-to-revamp-nysc-for-national-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/07\/fg-moves-to-revamp-nysc-for-national-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Moves to Revamp NYSC for National Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has inaugurated a reform committee to reposition the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to better reflect national development goals and meet the evolving aspirations of Nigerian youths.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, announced by Dr Tunji Alausa, Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, via his verified X account, follows high-level consultations with Brigadier General Olakunle Oluseye Nafiu, Director General of NYSC; Minister of Youth, Ayodele Olawande; and Presidential Policy Adviser, Hadiza Bala Usman.<\/p>\n<p>Alausa revealed that the reform will include a review of the NYSC Act, with plans to introduce an optional two-year Medical Corps and Teacher Corps.<\/p>\n<p>These new corps would deploy doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and teachers to underserved rural areas, bridging healthcare and education gaps.<\/p>\n<p>The government reaffirmed its commitment to transforming NYSC into a skill-building and service-driven platform that not only develops young Nigerians but also addresses urgent national needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Federal Government has inaugurated a reform committee to reposition the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to better reflect national development goals and meet the evolving aspirations of Nigerian youths. The initiative, announced by Dr Tunji Alausa, Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, via his verified X account, follows high-level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":65424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65423","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65425,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65423\/revisions\/65425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}