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A total of 1,710 Corps members of the
2023 Batch C stream II consisting of 1,085 males and 625 females who served in Bauchi state for the mandatory One year service to fatherland under the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), on Thursday, received their Certificates of national service.
Addressing the outgoing Corps members during the presentation, Bauchi State NYSC Coordinator, Rifkatu Yakubu called upon them from across the country to lower their pride and learn a skill so as to become employers of labour.
According to her, this is imperative amidst scarce white collar jobs, calling on those who had learned a skill to effectively build on it.
She stressed that, “Let us not deceive ourselves, holding on to that certificate looking for jobs, day and night is so frustrating as the jobs are not there.”
Rifkatu Yakubu advised that, “Don’t go and sit at home expecting a job, disturbing your parents and some of you will say I’m a graduate, how can I go and do a paticular business. There is no pride in business.”
According to her, “If you go out there, you will see graduates riding motorcycles and tricycles and that is their business and they are making a lot of money from it.”
“So, please, lower your pride and learn a skill. If you haven’t learned one, it is not too late to do so,” She said.
Rifkatu Yakubu also called on the outgoing Corps members receiving their certificates of national service not to join bad groups like cultism, kidnapping, yahoo yahoo among others.
She urged them to rather be good ambassadors of their families, school of graduation as well as the NYSC.
Some of the outgoing Corps members thanked God for seeing them through the service year in spite of the many challenges they faced particularly, Economic hardship and insecurity.
They were full of praises to the Bauchi State Government for providing an enabling environment for them to serve, they specifically commended the friendly atmosphere at the various communities where they served.
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