The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has said that the scheme felt the pains of prospective corps members of the 2016 Batch A Stream 2, adding that they will surely be mobilised. Mr Stephen Bankole, who is the Director of Information, NYSC Oyo State, noted this while speaking with newsmen, after some affected graduates in the state had protested over the delay in mobilising them to camp. According to him, NYSC understood their pains and disappointment and the management is working assiduously to ensure that the 2016 Batch ‘A’ (Stream 2) Orientation is conducted as soon as possible. He, however, called on all prospective members of the 2016 Stream 2 Batch A group, to exercise patience, following the delay in their mobilisation. He said, “NYSC depends solely on budgetary allocation from the Federal Government and all hands are on deck waiting for fund to be released for the scheme. “The Director-General has the well-being of the members as the number one agenda in his heart and he will do everything possible to make them comfortable. “So please, the incoming members should be at peace, they will surely be mobilised as the Director-General has promised,” he added.

THE Oyo State Government has debunked insinuations that its new policy direction on education is aimed at privatizing its secondary schools, just as it clarified that the proposed partnership with stakeholders would not lead to retrenchment of a single teacher.
The government’s position was conveyed at a news conference by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Communication and Strategy, Mr. Yomi Layinka, in Ibadan, yesterday
Other stakeholders at the press briefing were the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Mrs. Aderonke Makanjuola; and her counterpart in the Information and Culture ministry, Dr. Bashir Olanrewaju.
The government’s representatives said the press conference was called to allay the fears of members of the public who have been fed with what he called half truth and outright falsehood by a few uninformed individuals and organizations.
As a governor elected on the popular mandate of the people for a historic second term, Layinka said Senator Abiola Ajimobi would not take any decision that would be against the overriding interest of the public.
He explained that the government only responded to clarion calls by religious leaders, missionaries, old students’ associations and communities to partner with it in the management of few of the schools, which they originally owned.
Layinka said, “We are only going into partnership with these bodies who might meet the criteria for return of such schools. We are not selling our schools. In fact, we might end up returning not more than 20 out of our 631 secondary schools that were originally owned by missionaries and communities.

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