Topic: NYSC scheme is another failed structure that could have helped our economy. (Read 180 times)

How to expect someone receiving a minimum wage of 30 thousand naira in Nigeria right now to boost the economy when there’s over inflation of almost everything you want to get in the market.

The major sim in the creation of the Nigerian Nysc was to boost the economy but to foster peace and unity among its regions and state but for me that have failed by allowing redeployment of corpers which don’t even have any medical report or which the fake and collecting of bribe to help corper change the place of service..that means the aim of the Nysc is not really been achieved for me.after seeing all this but to be removed and making it an entrepreneur of a year will be muvh better to help the economy reduce rate of unemployment and increase self employment.

Education  has taken its true meaning this days. Being educated doesn't guarantee you a job. Just that we got spoit during the olden days when you got job instantly after graduating. Education makes us creative, intelligent and teach us the scope beyond becoming an employee but an employer. Government can't creat job for everyone. The area where the Government has failed us is their ability to creat a good atmosphere for investor to come into the country and also a good atmosphere for me and you to start our own business. I prefer being an employer than looking up and down for job.

Absolutely correct, but I can categorically state that the purpose is already defeated , because in my days in primary school, I saw copper sent in industrial work but today everything is teaching even the teaching is not available for public schools. Things are liable to changes which I concur but the changes on this aspect is negative instead positive, the purpose to which this is built is already a failure. But there is still a room to redeem this failure by channeling effort into industrial revolution using the youth force maintaining the primary purpose of moving corp members as they do but sent them into industry where they can be productive than teaching beside what is the duty of the respective subject teachers in school they become useless as they relax and release the work to corper reducing work force in the nation.

From my own understanding, the problem that we are having is not that our youth are not productive enough or if they go to an industry or company to work or serve during their youth service scheme that the economy will be better or not but it's the fact that our colonial masters introduced there own we of education to us leaving behind the fact that they have industries where after education one will get a job to practice but here we don't have any of those opportunities as them but we practice the same educational system leading our youths to graduate without any job.

now for NYSC it's not anyone's fault but it's our fault that we still want to be employed after the level of knowledge we have gathered in the undergraduate studies. we are all supposed to produce our own things not going after jobs every time. how can I graduate and my first write up after the graduation will be "I beg" to apply for, to me it's insane may God forbid. I will never look out for any job I'm now aware so I will be going for productivity instead of job opportunities. 

Its hard to harness the situation in the nations economy sector is it the education sector the government would care for. People who can sit on their throne and watch student stay home for 3 to 4 years all in the name of strike. I think this is very clear, the country is in a state of where you choose and decide what you want to do. It is.no longer a criteria to do NYSC. It is obvious that there is no importance of doing it then why choose to do it?

I always say it. All my life there have never been a day that Nigeria was better but there have been better days. Which are those days we gave ourselves fun, happiness, the days we get a work, hard our best business partners and clients, those days we start a new business, days we reached our goals, the days we accomplish our dreams. Cant mention all but it all bend down to us. Life shouldn't be analysed so much, anyday could be your last so do what you want and stop thinking about the government and the falled structures, promises they have made our minds depend on. I love my country, i love me and i love everyone.

The purpose of the nysc has been hijacked and even from the days of obasanjo, I think the nysc scheme has been used as a means to silently and secretly steal from the country’s treasury without with much attention since it is believed to be for reasonable reason without knowing the evil intentions behind it.
I personally don’t think the nysc program has any purpose or impact and should be scrapped as it’s not just a waste of the country’s money but also waste of the graduates time as this program is even made mandatory and the risk of traveling from one’s state to another for orientation and posting already has its own risk.

I don't want to stress much about NYSC issue knowing you'll definitely serve the country las las, teaching physics and chemistry is not actually bad the way you painted it besides some rural areas lack this education due to poverty and other factors, what I'm trying to say is before considering yourself you should consider if this step can spoil someone else plan or future, no just think about yourself and looking at the nysc issue, the aim for creating nysc is not for learning skill acquisition so I will agree with you if our leaders can change the aim to something else like what you mentioned "skill acquisition" if I'm not mistaking no be all corper member dey teach so if na the teaching dey really stress the matter no be all dey teach but very rare and depends on your course. Nothing really pain me reach the kidnap and death most corpers dey face for another state, very stupid something and just this year I heard about the kidnap of corpers travelling but I don forget the state.

I think I know of Israel and Barbados with similar NYSC concept for their graduates also, but with more service time and better duties and structure as compared to what we have and practice here in this country.

NYSC these days only helps to prepare the corps members for the hardship they may yet face upon completion of their service year, because in many of the places these youths are posted to, the condition of the place can be more than unbelievable and sometimes unbearable that they opt to either not participate or exempt themselves from service.

It should have helped really, but the problem of this country still revolve around tribalism and religion on different levels and as such, we might see corp members not given due accreditation after a meritorious service year has been completed even if they could fill any position in the company they served.

Corps members should use their service year to make friends that may help them level up in life and learn skills to set up themselves or go entrepreneurial after their service year is over.

I remember when a member of the house of rep or senate once raised a motion that NYSC scheme was a scam and the money spent on the agency yearly for the corp members should be given to them to start up a business for themselves as fresh graduates because even after serving the nation for one year, no work is on ground to employ you and you go back home and sit again for God knows how long before getting a job. I loved that idea but the possibility of it being achievable to some extent is what is the problem because not all students will make use of that opportunity well causing the reason of employing that method unsatisfactory.


This was actually the main purpose of NYSC creation and if the purpose hasn’t been changed, I will say they’re achieving about 70% of what it is created for in the first place during Yakubu Gowon’s regime. Why I will not give them 100% is because corp members are always fond of changing their posting to some state of preference for them or even their state of origin which this action has annul the reason why it is created. If the purpose of the scheme has been changed to better the economy, they we have failed in it more woefully than it been used to integrate ethnic groups in the country.

It more better that the Government should make considerations in putting the NYSC scheme a top most priority on how they can help improve lives of the youth, its not easy for someone to have served his country for a complete one year and have nothing to gain at the end to secure a job with, instead they release them into their own fate to find a survival means for themselves, when the government could position them all to replace all the employment vacant spots in the work settings considering that people are getting retired every year from work and they equally needs replacements.

To me what is the essence of nysc after all this stress still no job. Our leaders are just our problem in this country,  they travel to developed countries and they can't still make their own country to be a better one . Which of the developed countries that has a body for graduate just like nysc. This things is useless if the government can't provide job for young graduates,  it is a shamefull thing for government not to be able to provide job for youths after their years in school.

are you being serious?
What then is the responsibility that the government owns her citizens if they can't set up systems that will help th youth become more productive? We know that every one has his own duty to himself of ensuring that he trains and develope himself but should you be stressing yourself to do these when someone is being paid to help you solve those problems?

The government manages all our resources and they are supposed to use whatever comes out of it for the betterment of the society so I don't feel it's wrong to see the need for a policy to be improved upon.

I know the initial plan of Gowon was to increase the rate of ethnic integration in the midst of our citizens but in the long run, somany changes  ad innovation has been imputed into the scheme based on the current reality the country is battled with and you now have  the camp training comprising of some form of military training that could help strengthen our youth in case of war. If such modification could be out in place, although I feel it isn't necessary,wouldn't it be better to look at how to make use of the scheme to better our economy?

The countries economic situation is in a state of emergency and if thier is need  to amend certain schemes just so we can take ourselves off this mess, then it's not out of place at all

Pushing them to serving in industrial areas does not even guarantee success or economic boost. Not that I am a kind of being judgmental here. The reality is that even if government gives them the opportunity to learn industrial skill, where will they practice it after graduation. Because there are few industries in the country with a lesser paying job, our leaders have created employment opportunities for people overseas with the company they built over there, and there is non for us to work on in Nigeria .What is the value of learning a skill which you can't find where to work with the skilled except you have connection or money. The more student are graduating from higher institutions, so many people are graduating from the skill they learnt. Either personal or government skill. And yet no place to work. So I think creating more employment opportunities is better of.

Like I said earlier sending them to industries dose not guarantee %100 success. People who did there industrial training (I.T) can attest This. Many Nigerians who did there I.T and NYSC did it in industry but where are they now. Out of %100 that graduate every year it is only few that are employed while the rest are unemployed. And more graduate are still on there way back. Meaning no employment. every position in any office is protected by all means and your application can not be accepted because your brain is as fast a the speed of light and can make them loose their job, that is the mentality that has kept people stagnant and never employ new people. So lack of creating employment opportunities is the main problem.

One thing I will like to tell you is that, even if we shout from now till eternity about the leaders, it will not change them from who they are. Rather the best thing is to create employment for yourself because gradually employment work does not pay any longer. Emagine working so hard and be paid #30k or #40k month. while goods and service skyrocket every day, it is meaningless. I better do a petty trade that gives me a #2k on daily basis multiply by 30 days is better than some office job with command and no increase in payment.

When I read " How does teaching help better our country?", I was like.. what exactly are you saying, you're passing on knowledge and stuff like that. But then I read further and it's true  , we've been taught what we know to teach future teachers and the matrix continues.

You see, when it comes to the Federal Government not utilizing opportunities such as that of Nysc programs, that's honestly the federal government's problem. If a youth wants to really work in an industry and help the economy, then that's their ambition and they should help themselves, cause waiting for the government to do things in this country would take forever. I get that the government, by doing this would boost moral of a lot of youth, but it doesn't change the fact that they are still not doing it. It may even lead to corruption and lots of nepotism. That's why I'd say the youth should help themselves.

There are books and self-study programs that a person can read and self-teach himself/ herself to not only work in industries but to own their own industries. Nigeria does need more workers, it needs more employers. I always thought the future was digital skills and decentralized finance our country's economy, but we haven't even entered the industrial age in this country and that's really sad. Creating a firm/ business that makes match sticks in this country today would go extremely far.

Sometimes I wonder how there are really great ideas on this forum, but I rarely ever see any outside and then these advices goes to waste as most of them are channeled to people who may and may not be on the platform. So, if you strongly believe in what you've written OP, then I'd say you tweet this on a platform that lots of people including government officials can see it,Cause it's a really good idea.

Teaching is important and good but maybe you no really put the question well. Like me I don't see the reason wey dem go send people go out for a year to go teach as if trained teachers no dey the school. It is understandable if dem ask people wey study under education to teach but to just put everybody or must corper for teaching line no make sense because it is not useful after that one year for dem wey no dey under education.

Wetin even stop dem to use dat one year train people for skill acquisition so dat after dat one year beneficiaries fit establish small business by demselves with even the small money wey dem fit save (lol I dey talk about save wey only half bag of rice don collect all the alawee. In fact, I don talk say make dem scrab the program because the purpose is no longer visible. Insecurity just dey grow for the country like mushroom so wetin be the need again. Nysc don lead different good brains and young people to early grave through accident and insecurity challenges. Which one we go talk or live regards the nysc abi na the contract scam wey dey go on for acquisition of facilities for the program like the fake and substandard uniform, beds, feeding on the camp etc.

In 1973, when Yakubu Gowon created the NYSC program, it was not created to improve the economy. It was a scheme to encourage integration of different ethnic groups and tribes across the country. That’s why southerners are often deployed to the west/north and vice versa. All this is to create a bond between the diverse communities of the country.

With the thousands of people that are willing to serve our country after completing their undergraduate studies, If our leaders are wise, they would have leveraged on these human capacity to harnessing most of our natural resource and push them into serving in industrial areas that will boast the economy to a very large extent.

Wouldn't it be more reasonable to send this NYSC members to industrial areas that will expose them to what's obtainable in most industrial setting or to look for ways to improve on our agricultural system rather than sending them to teach the regular maths and physics in school?

If the NYSC was properly planned and well managed, we wouldn't be talking about lack of employment opportunity or the issue of inemployability of most of our youth wouldn't have been a serious problem.

Just imagine that every year we have thousands of youth on the scheme and within that one year, they are well trained in an industry that is functional and relevant, would they come out frustrated about the next thing to do as is the case now? we should be thinking on how to engage them to better the economy rather than forcing them to teach in schools leaving most of them idle as shit because the system allows them to teach even when teaching is not thisr primary field of interest.

How does teaching help better our nation?  What we have is teachers teaching other teacher that will end up becoming teachers. How does that translate to a nation becoming productive to be really honest?

Well, I just say make I bring this matter come here,    how we fit make the best use of our youth that are currently under the nysc scheme such that they will be productive to themselves on thier part and still be a useful resource for the economic growth of our nation.