By Correspondent in Ilorin.
Members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), have been urged to embrace peace and ensure sustainable peace building across the country, as Nigeria makes conscious efforts to reduce insecurity in some parts of the country to the barest minimum.
The Director, Center for Peace and Strategic Studies,University of Ilorin,Professor Oyeronke Olademo,gave the advice on Tuesday at a 2-day training organised for Corps members by Suleiman Bogoro mediation Room, held at the NYSC Orientation Camp ,Yipata,Kwara state.
According to her, the Corps members concerned are targeted for the training, based on their exposure from their various institutions of higher learning.
She explained that two Corps members wre selected, each from the 16 local government area to undergo training as agents of change in terms of peace building in the society.
Professor Olademo noted that the selected Corps members were expected to train others who would complement their effort in preaching peaceful coexistence in their various communities,States and the country in general.
She advised the Corps members to ensure they use what they learnt in resolving conflicts among themselves and in the larger communities, without resort into conflict.
Professor Olademo appealed to members of the communities to embrace the Corps members as their children and give them the necessary support to enable them succeed.
In her remark, the Coordinator, Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin,Dr Biola Adimula, urged the Corps members to remain dutiful and ensure peaceful coexistence in their various communities to boost peace and positive developmnt in the state.
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