The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has urged employers of corps members to support the scheme by either picking up corps members from orientation camps or reimbursing their transport fares when unable to do so. NYSC Director General, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, made the appeal on Thursday in Bauchi during the 2025 NYSC/Corps Employers’ Workshop organized by the scheme in the state. He emphasized that providing suitable accommodation or offering monetary compensation in its place would significantly motivate corps members to deliver quality and effective service. Represented by Agatha Banki, Director of the Northeast Area Office 1, Bauchi, the DG noted that the workshop is a yearly event that fosters strategic interaction between NYSC officials and corps employers, providing a platform for exchanging ideas to improve their collaboration. “From addressing grey areas to enhancing healthy relationships between our various organisations, the workshops always produce ideas and recommendations that are factored into the operations of the Scheme. “I am convinced that the 2025 workshop would not be any different,” said the DG He further highlighted the roles of corps employers to include the provision of accommodation, payment of transportation allowance, Healthcare provision as is available to regular staff, and provision of a healthy working environment. Nafiu added that at the end of the workshop, participants must recommend steps to help build a proactive and enduring partnership between the NYSC Scheme and corps employers. “You must hammer out more effective formats of communication among our organisations and come up with implementable solutions to the numerous problems that challenge corps administration and proffer solutions. “I call on you to make individual and collective contributions in shaping the nation-building efforts of the corps members,” he said.