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The National Youth Service Corps NYSC Orientation camp has resumed in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital after its closure for more than twelve years.
While declaring the 2023 batch “B” Stream (II) orientation course open, Borno state Governor Babagana Zulum says the resumption of camp activity signifies that peace has returned to the state.
The NYSC Orientation camp in Maiduguri was shut down in 2012 during the height of Boko Haram insurgency.
The edifice was later converted to an internally displaced persons camp, where IDPs from Damboa, Gwoza and Konduga took refuge.
With return of peace to the state, camp activities have resumed with over one thousand one hundred Corps members deployed to Borno state for the one year mandatory service.
Governor Babagana Zulum described the batch B Stream (II) orientation course as historic and special having marked the end of perennial dislodgement of Corps members to the state.
According to him, the absence of Corps members have denied people of the state the right to enjoy auxiliary services from the scheme and the opportunity to share different norms, customes and cultures across the country.
Radio Nigeria’s Dauda Iliya reports that event was held at NYSC temporary orientation camp, Umar Mustapha Elkanemi Arabic College, Maiduguri.
