The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has sent a total of 2,194 of the 4,486 2022 Batch ‘C’, Stream 1 members posted to Lagos State to other states in the south west region for their three weeks orientation programs.
Lagos NYSC coordinator Yetunde Baderinwa stated this on Tuesday at the swearing-in of the corps members.
The corps members, comprising 1,575 males, and 2,911 females, were sworn in at the NYSC camp in Iyana-Ipaja.
Baderinwa said of the corps members, 749 were sent to Ogun, 734 to Oyo and 711 to Osun for their orientation course due to limited space at the Iyana-Ipaja temporary orientation camp in Lagos.
She advised the new corps members to be committed to all forms of training in order to acquire relevant skills that would help them to be self reliant during and after the service year.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, was represented by his special adviser on special duties and intergovernmental relations, Mobolaji Ogunlende at the event.
Sanwo Olu charges the new NYSC members
Sanwo-Olu charged the new NYSC members to draw inspiration from exploits of their predecessors and live an impressionable difference in their communities during their service year.
He said: “Your predecessors have continued to provide crucial services to the people of Lagos State and by so doing have etched their humanitarian service on memory of time.
“It is in the recognition of these contributions in this and other sectors of the state, in implementing government programmes, that I want to urge you to draw inspirations from these laudable acts.
“Use this opportunity to fashion out for yourself a pathway of greatness to be a reference point which our government can be proud of and those coming behind you can leverage on.”
Justice Omolade Awope administered the Oath of allegiance on the corps members on behalf of the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Kazeem Alogba.
