FG to inter-link NYSC locations

The  Management  of the National Youth  Service  Corps (NYSC)  has announced  plans to install a necessary platform that would enable  all NYSC locations to be inter-linked.

In achieving  this, the Director General of the scheme, Brigadier  General N.T Okore-Affia, said the management  would explore  the possibility of public  private  partnership  in view of the limited  financial resources available  to the organisation.

General Okore-Affia stated this while commissioning the NYSC Imo State / WOLEX ICT Resource Centre in Owerri.

The unique project, he said,  came at a time when the management had decided  to deploy Information  Technology (IT) into the  operations of the NYSC.

“Information  and Communication Technology (ICT) is an essential and effective  management  tool in  every organization and in realization of this , the present  administration is frantically  making efforts  to provide the  necessary infrastructure  that will enable  staff to perform  their duties with maximum efficiency and little stress”.

While commending the WOLEX  Vintage  Technologies  for all the kind gestures it had extended to the NYSC,  Imo State, the director general urged the ICT unit of the state to ensure careful and judicious use of the equipment and facilities in the centre to ensure  durability.

Represented by the Director, ICT  Dept. at the NYSC  Directorate headquarters Abuja, Mr. Anthony  Chinwuba Ani, the NYSC boss   promised that  his directorate  headquarters  would assist  in providing other facilities as soon as  its  financial status improved.

The state coordinator of NYSC, Mrs.  Chinwe Ojukwu, described the event as the climax of the joint effort of the NYSC Imo State and Wolex Vintage Technologies  Limited.

This, she said, was borne out of the need to establish an efficient ICT unit that could service the various administration branches in the secretariat in compliance  with the management’s  directive on the implementation of the new structure of the scheme.

Ojukwu showered   praises on the Wolex  Vintage  Technologies for its support to the NYSC and called for partnerships between the NYSC and other  stakeholders, just as he solicited for office furniture more computers , air conditioners, fans and other  necessary  equipment to enable  it expand and ensure that all operations are ICT-driven.