Benue Lawmaker Agbese urges Tinubu to suspend proposed NYSC reforms  

The Deputy Spokesperson of the House of Representatives, Rep. Philip Agbese, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to halt the implementation of the Federal Government’s projected reforms to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), insisting that the changes should acquisition wider stakeholder engagement earlier taking effect.

Agbese, who represents Ado/Okpokwu/Ogbadibo Federal Constituency of Benue State, made the entreaty successful a connection released connected Sunday successful Abuja.

A subordinate of the House Committees connected Youth and Defence, the lawmaker described the NYSC arsenic a captious nationalist instauration whose halfway objectives of fostering unity and nationalist work indispensable beryllium protected adjacent arsenic reforms are pursued.

His presumption follows the Federal Government’s announcement of what the Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, described arsenic the archetypal large overhaul of the NYSC since it was established successful 1973.

Among the projected changes are the restructuring of the predisposition campy into 3 phases, the instauration of 11 specialised vocation pathways for corps membe...