The Director General National Youth Service Corps: Brigadier General YD Ahmed has stated that members will continue to receive priority and dominance in the activities of the scheme under his administration.
The Director General gave the assurance while receiving the management team to Capital Express Assurance Limited at NYSC National Directorate Headquarters Maitama, recently in Abuja.
Brigadier General Ahmed, in a statement issued by the NYSC Director of Press and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa, applauded CEAL for being consistent in carrying out its statutory responsibilities in line with the Memorandum of Understanding it signed with NYSC. It stated that there is need for the two organizations to be taking time to jointly assess the implementation of the accord from time to time, in order to identify and address gray areas.
He further said that NYSC will never relent in meeting its obligations in the partnership, and called on CEAL to equally sustain the tempo at which it promptly responds to issues pertaining to insurances cover for corps members.
In her remarks, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Capital Express Assurance Limited, Mrs. Odukale Adebola disclosed that the company has for quite some time been responsible for providing insurance services to corps members. She said the company which has existed for over 30 years has always lived up to expectation by paying benefits to families of corps members who pay the supreme sacrifice and providing succor to those who suffer permanent disabilities through the programme in the course of the service year through the programme, “Corps Welfare Insurance Scheme.”
She added that CEAL does intervene in executing special projects for NYSC as part of its corporate social responsibility. “Recently, we constructed and furnished a vocational centre at NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Keffi, Nasarawa State. Prior to that we had provided technological devices in support of NYSC’s digitization process,” she said.
