President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is set to honour 210 ex-corps members at the President’s National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Honours Award for 2020 to 2023 service years.
NYSC’s Director of Media, Emeka Mgbemena, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
The statement said the award ceremony will hold on Tuesday at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa.
Mgbemena said that the awardees are made up of 200 ex-corps members who excelled meritoriously in all the four cardinal programmes of the NYSC.
The programmes, he said, are Orientation Course, Primary Assignment, Community Development Service and Winding-Up/Passing-Out.
“Others that will also be honoured by the President under the NYSC Hope Alive Initiative are 10 ex-corps members that suffered various degrees of permanent disabilities while serving their fatherland,” the statement added.
The Minister of Youth Development, Mr Ayodele Olawande, Director-General of NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Olakunle Nafiu and NYSC Management were looking forward to welcoming the award beneficiaries and guests to the event, the statement further said.
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