Corps Members have been advised to ensure they save fifteen percentage of their monthly allowance as part of personal savings and investment strategies.

The Director General of National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, gave this advice while interacting with the 2026 Batch 'B' Stream I Corps Members in Plateau and Gombe NYSC Orientation Camps.

He said the Scheme had made enough opportunities available for them to acquire skills through the NYSC Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme, adding that they were to ensure they acquire at least a skill or two during the service year that would make them self-employed and thereby create jobs for others.

General Nafiu also disclosed that many of their predecessors that acquired skills while serving are had become business owners in different sectors of society.

He cautioned that it would be shameful for them to go back home after the service year and remain idle.

The Director General also appealed to the Corps Members to embrace hard work, cultivate meaningful relationships and use the social media to create good contents that would project both the image of the NYSC and Nigeria.

He warned that anyone among them that violated NYSC’s rules and regulations would be sanctioned.

“Cut down on unnecessary use of social media. Create good contents, make friends and nurture relationships. Nigeria's ours, Nigeria we serve"

"You have to learn faithfulness in little things, if you are posted to a school, diligently teach your children", the DG advised.

The NYSC Plateau State Coordinator, Mr Jonathan Yavala, said the Corps Members had been actively participating in the Orientation Camp activities, and had also exhibited good character since they arrived Camp.

He added that all Camp officials had been working in synergy to ensure that the objectives of the Orientation Course were achieved.

Yavala also said a total of 1,240 Corps Membles were registered, comprising 636 males and 604 females.

Similarly, the NYSC Gombe State Coordinator, Chinwe Nwachuku informed General Nafiu that all the 1,349 registered Corps Members, comprising 649 males and 700 females had adjusted to Camp life and were eager to contribute their quota to the socio-economic development of the State.