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EKO HOT BLOG reports that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) participants working in President Muhammadu Buhari’s hometown of Daura in Katsina State have received 10 rams, two cows, and N1 million in donations.
During the NYSC members’ Sallah celebration on Saturday in Daura, the President made the donation.
He praised the program for upholding the ideals of its forefathers, who founded it to guarantee unity and national cohesion.
Buhari said that the scheme was one of the weapons to unite Nigerians, saying that most of the corps members serving in Daura are from far away southern states.
He said that none of the corps members serving in Daura is from Katsina State, and if there is any, it must be on health grounds.
The president urged the management of the scheme to make frantic efforts to sustain the objectives of which it was established in 1973.
He advised the corps members who he described as true patriots to be vigilant and be security conscious anywhere they find themselves.
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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buhari has made it part of his Sallah celebration every year to meet with NYSC members in Daura.
NAN further reports that after the Eid-El-Kabir prayer, the president walked to his residence where he received and greeted residents who lined up by the road sides. (NAN)
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