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<\/p>\nOladapo, who is of batch B, is presently undergoing her 12-month mandatory service at Ikoyi town, in Isokan Local Government Area of Osun.<\/p>\n
The award was presented to the corps member during the closing ceremony of 2019 Batch \u2018C\u2019 Stream I orientation course at the NYSC permanent camp, Ede, Osun State, on Monday.<\/p>\n
The NYSC state coordinator, Adegoke Adewale in his remarks reiterated the commitment of the corps towards redirecting the career ambition of youths through skill acquisition and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n
According to him, the notion behind exposing corps members to such programmes while in camp is to create viable alternatives for them in the future against seeming unavailability of white-collar jobs.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cNYSC management has gone a long way to ensure a brighter future for yous after the service year by introducing Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneur Development Programmes, purposely to empower you to be self-reliant \u201c.<\/p>\n
The corps member, while speaking narrated how she approached the head of Ikoyi community for a piece of land to embark on the farming project.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I came to camp, I attended a program called SAED, in my course of the programme, I choose Agro-allied and they told us about cucumber farming.<\/p>\n
With the skills gained from the programme, on June 19, 2019, after the camp, I ventured into cucumber farming, and it is really going on well,\u201d Atoyebi said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Osun State has given an award for outstanding performance to a corps member, Oladapo Atoyebi, who embarked on plantation of cucumber on a hectare of land in the state. Oladapo, who is of batch B, is presently undergoing her 12-month mandatory service at Ikoyi town, in Isokan Local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,4147,1164],"class_list":["post-170399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-nysc","tag-osun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}