A total of 534 female corps members from the 2024 Batch A Stream II, who have just completed their service year in Bauchi State, have been advised to return home to their parents for a reunion rather than going to their boyfriends’ houses.
The advice was given by the Bauchi State Coordinator of the NYSC, Rifkatu Yakubu, on Thursday, during the distribution of certificates of National Service to the Corps members.
She appealed, “Please, ladies, your boyfriends are not your parents and don’t say that after collecting your certificates, you are going to your boyfriends’ houses.
“Go back home to your parents and celebrate with them as you have just passed out from the National Service.
“I also want to advise you all, that, even if you have not learned anything from the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme, it is not too late to learn.
“Instead of you going home and sitting idle, get something to do in order to assist your parents and with this last allowance, please do well and start learning a trade.
The NYSC Coordinator further implored them not to indulge in yahoo yahoo, kidnapping or ritual killings because they wanted to make quick money, saying that, it will shorten their existence.
These, she said, were not parts of what the NYSC had trained them on, saying, “you have come and you have served for you to be responsible children in the society.”
She further appealed, “Please, represent your family well, be a good ambassador of Nigeria, your institutions of graduation and the NYSC.”
The state Coordinator also advised the corps members not to be in a rush to laminate their certificates of National Service after collection, but must ensure that all the names were spelt correctly and no mistakes whatsoever.
A total of 1,652 corps members comprising 1,118 males and 534 females passed out in the state.
