One Big Reason to Scrap the NYSC: The Worsening of Yoruba-Igbo Ethnic Relations

by Julius Afolalu

There's a bill on the floor of the House of Representatives in Nigeria to scrap the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The bill is sponsored by Hon Awaji-Inombek Abiante (PDP) who represents the Andoni-Opobo/Nkoro Federal Constituency of Rivers State in the Green Chamber.
After Nigeria's civil war, then military President Yakubu Gowon established the NYSC scheme in 1973 as a way of reconciling, reuniting, and rebuilding a broken nation. Statutorily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C6W2VCJC
• ISBN13: 9798397003704
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 42 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"