NYSC Orientation back in Adamawa after 3-year break

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has resumed orientation of corp members in Adamawa state, after a three-year suspension caused by the Boko Haram insurgency.

Speaking in Yola on tuesday, state coordinator of NYSC, Mohammed Abubakar said 2,500 corps members were deployed to the state.

He said adequate security had been put in place with about 300 officials from the army, police, department of state security, Nigeria security and civil defence corps.

Abubakar explained that the state government had provided the facility of Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, as a temporary camp, pending the final evacuation of the Internally Displaced Persons at the permanent orientation camp in Damare