The Nigerian Government is set to replace the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) traditional khaki uniform with Adire fabric.
This will be part of ongoing reforms aimed at repositioning the scheme.
Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, revealed this on Thursday during an interview on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief.
He explained that the move was intended to promote local manufacturing and ensure government spending supports the Nigerian economy.
“It’s Adire. So, Adire is being produced in Nigeria. We have them in Ogun, we have them in Kwara, we have textile industry. Let’s put our money back into the country,” he said.
Olawande also said corps members would increasingly be posted according to their fields of study under the new framework, explaining that graduates with education qualifications, for instance, would be deployed to schools rather than being posted without consideration for their professional backgrounds.
“After you are leaving the camp, you are not just posted to a school just because NYSC wants you to be in school but because of the process you followed when in camp. So, that is going to give a framework of where you are going to be posted to,” he said.
