{"id":4593,"date":"2025-06-14T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pillartoday.ng\/?p=4593"},"modified":"2025-06-14T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T16:01:01","slug":"otu-charges-corps-members-to-be-job-creators-rather-than-job-seekers-swears-in-1588","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"pillartoday.com.ng\/?p=4593","title":{"rendered":"Otu Charges Corps Members to Be Job Creators Rather Than Job Seekers, Swears-in 1,588"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Anietie Akpan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cross River State Governor, Sen. Prince Bassey Otu has charged Corps members serving in the state to be job creators rather than job seekers.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor, gave the\u00a0 assurance during the 2025 Batch A stream II swearing in ceremony at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Permanent Orientation Camp in Obubra, \u00a0Cross River State on Friday, June 13.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor who was\u00a0 represented at the ceremony by the Commissioner for Youth Development and Skills Acquisition, Barr Ijom Ukam, therefore charged the corps members to join\u00a0 hands in the affairs of nation building by contributing to the development of their host communities.<\/p>\n<p>Otu admonished\u00a0\u00a0 the corps members to respect the rules and regulations of the camp and \u201cembrace skills Acquisition and other lofty\u00a0 programmes of NYSC\u201d that would make them \u201cjob creators rather than job seekers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He assured the corps members serving in the state of a more conducive working environment and good welfare packages.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the NYSC State\u00a0 Coordinator, Mrs Oyenuga Joke, appreciated the Governor and his entourage for gracing the occasion and thanked God for granting journey mercies to all corps members deployed to the state .<\/p>\n<p>Oyenuga informed the Governor, that the corps members deployed to the state are very responsible and have adapted adequately to the regimented camp life.<\/p>\n<p>She said that a total of 1588 corps members have been registered comprising 704 males and 884 females<\/p>\n<p>On her part, the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Akon Ikpeme who was\u00a0 represented by the High Court Judge of Obubra, Justice Emmanuel Ubua administered the oath of allegiance on the corps members and wished them a successful service year.<\/p>\n<p>Highlight of the occasion was performance by the Man O\u2019 War special squad that thrilled the audience with fascinating exercises to add glamour to the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Corps members on their part, expressed their excitement about the swearing in ceremony and promised to make the best use of the orientation course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anietie Akpan Cross River State Governor, Sen. Prince Bassey Otu has charged Corps members serving in the state to be job creators rather than job seekers. The Governor, gave the\u00a0 assurance during the 2025 Batch A stream II swearing in ceremony at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Permanent Orientation Camp in Obubra, \u00a0Cross [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}