‘Nigerians are proud of their NYSC experiences’ – UN chief, Felipe Paullier

The Assistant Secretary General for Youth Affairs, and Head of the United Nations Youth Office, Felipe Paullier, has described the National Youth Service Corps arsenic a captious cause of Nigeria’s younker development.

The Head of the UN Youth Affairs stated this astatine the flag-off of the NYSC Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers (HIRD) held astatine Kabusa assemblage of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Paullier, who was connected an authoritative sojourn to the country, said his coming to Nigeria centres connected meaningful discussions with captious younker organizations and younker representatives, peculiarly NYSC, arsenic good arsenic cardinal stakeholders to beforehand the younker docket successful the state by strengthening the relation of young radical arsenic partners successful development, peace, and quality rights.

“I person interacted with galore young and aged Nigerians who are arrogant of their NYSC experiences,” helium said.

Commending the Scheme’s accordant escaped aesculapian interventions to agrarian dwellers successful the country, Paullier said the escaped medicare was contributing to gathering a amended world.

Earlier successful his address, the Director General of NYSC, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, told the UN Assistant Secretary General that since the inception of NYSC Health Initiative For Rural Dwellers (HIRD) successful 2014, much than 5 cardinal Nigerians person truthful acold be...