The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) State Coordinators and Directors, South-South Zone, have been urged to reinvigorate the scheme’s Community Development Service (CDS) to reflect the needs of their communities.
NYSC Director, South-South Area Office, Ladan Baba, gave the charge on Monday at a one-day strategic meeting with the officials held at its area office in Asaba.
He urged them to deliberate on policy implementation, consolidate on issues bonding the NYSC in the zone as a whole and seek ways to strengthen their working relationships at the meeting.
“The responsibilities of the area offices are essentially to ensure unity of command, provide efficient monitoring, strengthening of operational and administrative effectiveness of the scheme at the grassroots level.
“It will reduce the workload of both the national headquarters and the secretariats through decentralization process.
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“I urge you to be open in your deliberations today and clearly make suggestions that will enable us resolve all emerging challenges confronting the scheme at all levels of our operations,” Baba said.
He lauded them for the successful participation of corps members as the Independent National Electoral Committee (INEC) ad-hoc staff members during the recently concluded 2023 general elections.
“Let me commend you all for the efforts in piloting the affairs of the scheme in your various divisions and secretariats, the successful hosting of orientation courses and passing-out and winding-up exercises,” the NYSC director said.
Speaking, Chinyere Ekwe, the State Coordinator of NYSC, Akwa-Ibom, said that the meeting would strengthen their relationship with the state government, corps members and other stakeholders.
ECOWAS inaugurates joint platform for advancing cybersecurity in W/Africa
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is to launch, on Tuesday in Abuja, the Joint Platform for the Advancement of Cybersecurity in West Africa.
According to a statement posted on its website on Monday, the platform will focus on regional cyber diplomacy, the protection of critical infrastructures, the fight against cybercrime, and data sovereignty.
The event, it said, is organised in collaboration with its esteemed partners, and will serve as an official starting point for the joint implementation of the ECOWAS Action Plan to increase regional capacity and cybersecurity resilience.
The launch will take place on Sept. 12 followed by a two-day workshop on confidence-building measures (CBM) for regional cooperation.
The workshop will focus on the value of developing CBMs as a tool for increasing cyber resilience in the region.
The Joint platform for advancing Cyber Security in ECOWAS was initiated under Germany’s G7 presidency with an endorsed Action Plan (2022 – 2025) focusing on building regional cyber diplomacy, combating cybercrime, ensuring data sovereignty, and protecting critical
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