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 under the scheme, young graduates from Nigeria's south are posted to the north and vice versa.
Though the scheme was aimed at fostering national unity and integration sequel to the abortive Igbo-dominated secession of Biafra, it has generated an annual ritual of reopening the wounds of the Biafran War and the consequent souring of Yoruba-Igbo ethnic relations.
This book tells the bitter story of how the NYSC works out in inter-ethnic relations, and why Hon Awaji-Inombek Abiante is right to call for scraping of the NYSC. Don't decide one way or the other until you have read this book.

• 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"