The Minister of Education, Olatunji Alausa, has pushed for the extension of the national service scheme from one to two years.
Alausa, who was speaking when he received the Director General of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, said the duration of the scheme can be extended with the expansion of NYSC Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development Training programme content for corps members.
He said NYSC should be allowed to give people more opportunity to become job creators that will meet the needs of the country and hailed the scheme for resolving the lingering issue of ordinary national diploma part-time graduates with full-time higher national diploma who were previously exempted from national service.
The Minister of Education advocated the deployment of more graduate teachers to serve in rural schools, saying this would fill the manpower gap in the schools.
Alausa said efforts are on-going in the ministry to digitise the verification of foreign trained graduates of Nigerian origin, adding that the ministry and NYSC would further strengthen their alliance towards the improvement of education for national development.
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