Beyond The Khaki: Making NYSC Reform Count For Skills, Welfare And National Unity
By Umar Farouk Bala and Ibrahim Happiness For more than five decades, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has remained one of Nigeria’s most enduring national institutions. Established in 1973 in the aftermath of the Civil War, its primary mission was to foster reconciliation, national integration and unity by deploying young graduates to states outside