An total of about 6,000 planned corps members  from different establishments of higher learning in Nigeria will be activated for the 2020 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Batch 'B' direction practice this month. 

Chief General of the NYSC, Brigadier General Shaibu Ibrahim unveiled this in Jos, Plateau State capital, yesterday during a pre-direction course workshop coordinated for partners. 

He stated, “We are prepared to deploy 6,000 corps members to participate in the 2020 Batch B exercise. We have gone round the country to ensure that the camps are also ready. We are going to merge those who suspended their orientation in March to also participate for the forthcoming National orientation exercise.”

Ibrahim said that NYSC the board had set up all COVID-19 conventions in an offer to contain the pandemic in order to diminish network transmission in the camps the nation over. 

As per him, the NYSC the board was ready to guarantee severe consistence to the rules in the entirety of their exercises, including the issuance of authentications of National Service to corps individuals that have effectively finished their public help. 

He said that the NYSC was resolved to address developing difficulties in the impending direction practice which he said educated the association regarding the workshop with the subject 'Advancing a powerful Operational Strategy in the Management of Camps in the Context of COVID-19." 

He stated, "We have been interfacing with the important bodies, for example, the official team on COVID-19 (PTF), NCDC and state Ministries of Health on methods of guaranteeing sheltered and effective of the direction course. I am satisfied to report that all our direction camps have been readied and re-displayed with the affirmed wellbeing conventions. 

"Along with our accomplices, we will develop further procedures that will, in addition to other things, ensure the wellbeing of corps individuals, camp authorities and different individuals from the camp network all through the term of the Orientation course