7,000 NYSC CORPS MEMBERS EMPOWERED IN KATSINA
State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Katsina State, Hajiya Ramatu Sanda, has said the scheme has trained and empowered 7,000 corps members through its Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme in the state since its inception in 2012.
Sanda said the entrepreneurship programme was introduced by the federal government to educate the corps members on how to become self-employed and create jobs.
Speaking during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Batch ‘C’ Stream II set of corps members at MD Yusuf NYSC’s Permanent Orientation Camp, Katsina, Wednesday, Sanda said the gesture had transformed the life of the beneficiaries thereby making them employers of labour.
She said: “If you enter the state capital and even outside the state, we have more than 7,000 corps members that settled down for SAED programme.
“Some have established shops; some restaurants; some bakeries; some clinics and some even established their private hospitals across Katsina State and even its environ.”
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