{"id":158832,"date":"2025-04-07T12:07:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/minister-asks-nysc-to-stop-early-morning-drills-for-corps-members-in-orientation-camp"},"modified":"2025-04-07T13:08:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:08:40","slug":"minister-asks-nysc-to-stop-early-morning-drills-for-corps-members-in-orientation-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/minister-asks-nysc-to-stop-early-morning-drills-for-corps-members-in-orientation-camp","title":{"rendered":"Minister asks NYSC to stop early morning drills for corps members in orientation camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Minister of Youth, Comrade Ayodele Olawande, has requested that the management of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, change its programme to allow corps members to have enough rest during their 21-day orientation camp.<\/p>\n<p>The minister made the call during the 2025 annual management conference, themed \u2018Transforming the NYSC Scheme to meet the yearnings of the contemporary Nigerian graduates and society\u2019, held in Abuja on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, adjusting the time to allow camp drills to start later in the day \u2013 about 7:00 am \u2013 instead of the usual 4:00 am daily routine, would help the prospective corps members become more active.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said he has already started consultations to make this a reality, adding that he is dedicated to the welfare of the Nigerian youths.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe NYSC members should be allowed to start their drilling by 7:00 am and not 4:00 am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs drilling the purpose for us to do things? Of what purpose is drilling to us? We are not saying drilling should not be there. Drilling should be there. But we talk about unity in diversity. We are bringing them together in unity, and that is the major purpose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo how can we still stay on the purpose of bringing new innovation? When you are active, when you are doing research, when you are doing things differently, when you are making up in life and all that within three weeks, how can you be lazy? You can\u2019t be lazy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are saying is to recharge the brain and make the brain work from what we have now, so that you can have the job market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince when we\u2019ve been drilling, are we viable in the job market? We can\u2019t continue to be putting people out every year, 480,000 [every year] and no improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee, there\u2019s nothing. There\u2019s no job, there is no house, there is no institution that you keep on doing the same thing every time, and if you want a different result, you cannot have it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that is why we are saying we are looking beyond. We want to even think outside the bus, so that we can get it and that is why you see all these directors, I can tell you, they have the energy. Now, the energy is back, and they want to do the right thing, not that they were not doing the right thing before, but he wants to do it more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Minister of Youth, Comrade Ayodele Olawande, has requested that the management of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, change its programme to allow corps members to have enough rest during their 21-day orientation camp. The minister made the call during the 2025 annual management conference, themed \u2018Transforming the NYSC Scheme to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":158831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,601],"class_list":["post-158832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-nysc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minister asks NYSC to stop early morning drills for corps members in orientation camp - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Minister of Youth, Comrade Ayodele Olawande, has requested that the management of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/minister-asks-nysc-to-stop-early-morning-drills-for-corps-members-in-orientation-camp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister asks NYSC to stop early morning drills for corps members in orientation camp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Minister of Youth, Comrade Ayodele Olawande, has requested that the management of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/minister-asks-nysc-to-stop-early-morning-drills-for-corps-members-in-orientation-camp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-07T11:07:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-07T12:08:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744015117.847823.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"738\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"415\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/minister-asks-nysc-to-stop-early-morning-drills-for-corps-members-in-orientation-camp#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/minister-asks-nysc-to-stop-early-morning-drills-for-corps-members-in-orientation-camp\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Minister asks NYSC to stop early morning drills for corps members in orientation camp\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-07T11:07:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-07T12:08:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/minister-asks-nysc-to-stop-early-morning-drills-for-corps-members-in-orientation-camp\"},\"wordCount\":432,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/minister-asks-nysc-to-stop-early-morning-drills-for-corps-members-in-orientation-camp#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744015117.847823.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"NYSC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/minister-asks-nysc-to-stop-early-morning-drills-for-corps-members-in-orientation-camp#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/minister-asks-nysc-to-stop-early-morning-drills-for-corps-members-in-orientation-camp\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/minister-asks-nysc-to-stop-early-morning-drills-for-corps-members-in-orientation-camp\",\"name\":\"Minister asks NYSC to stop early morning drills for corps members in orientation camp - 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