Kaduna – The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), in partner with a U.S based firm, JAF Technology Solutions, is to train corps members in Kaduna State on use of technology to develop businesses..
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The NYSC State Coordinator, Mohammed Momoh disclosed this while briefing newsmen on Wednesday.
Momoh said the NYSC , as the largest body of youth motivators in the country, would train corps members to make them job creators instead of job seekers.
He said that the scheme would partner with genuine individuals and organizations to add value to all corps members.
“The scheme would compliment efforts of the Federal Government to provide employment opportunities for young Nigerian graduates through Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneur Development (SAED) programme.
“On how to ensure standard of home-made products; let’s get started first and then we continue to improve on it.
“You cannot compare products that will be produced by graduates to others in terms of efficiency.
“The difference between what they did while on camp and post camp work is that they have now mastered what they started as learners.“
Meanwhile, the Assistant Director of SAED, Mrs. Ifeanyi Odimpa, said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has adopted Heritage Bank as the sole pilot bank for the Youth Innovative Entrepreneurship Development Programme (YIEDP).
Odimpa said the programme was opened to both serving and ex-corps members who served within the last five years and between ages 18 to 35 years.
According to her, interested corps members can process up to three million naira while group of three to five can access up to N10 million as seed capital after they must have submitted a well written proposal and their NYSC discharge certificate as collateral.
She said the loan was to be repaid with single digit interest rate within three years.(NAN)