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NYSC DG boosts corps members morale; announces presidential award for outstanding CDS projects

- The NYSC DG, Maj Gen Suleiman Kazaure, has inaugurated a committee to shortlist corps members for a presidential award, based on their CDS projects

- He said the purpose of the presidential award was to encourage corps members to be diligent

- The award is also a way of encouraging corps members to embrace national development

A 13-member President’s Honours Award Selection Committee to shortlist corps members based on their Community Development Service projects has been inaugurated by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

The committee was inaugurated by the NYSC’s director general, Brig Gen Suleiman Kazaure, in Abuja, Punch reports.

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Legit.ng gathers that the DG noted that the purpose of the presidential award was to encourage corps members to be diligent and urged them to be improve on the standards already set by their predecessors.

Kazaure added that as a result of corps members’ projects in the areas of infrastructure, education, healthcare delivery and agriculture in many rural communities across the country, public perception about the scheme had gotten better.

He said: “As you commence the selection process, I implore you to approach the task dispassionately with the emergence of candidates that will be acceptable to all.

“The Community Development Service remains one of the major areas where the NYSC scheme has recorded remarkable success over the years.”

The NYSC’s director of press and public relations, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, in a statement, pointed out that the President’s NYSC Honours Award was instituted in 1974 as a way of encouraging corps members to embrace national development by embarking on Community Development Service projects, among other activities.

The scheme’s acting director, corps welfare and inspectorate, Sanusi Abdul-Rasheed, said the award would encourage corps members to see the dignity in labour and national integration and reward excellence in service.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the NYSC director general, Brig Gen Suleiman Kazaure, debunked rumours of an increment in the monthly allowances of serving corps members across the country by the federal government.

The DG said corps members are not different from civil servants, adding that whenever the minimum wage of civil servants is increased, increment in corps members’ allowance will automatically be affected.

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