NIGERIA: National Youth Service Corps To Screen Prospective Corps Members for Ebola

Chairman, National Governing Board for National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Chief Gordon Bozimo, has announced that prospective corps members would, henceforth, undergo Ebola screening before access to camp.

Bozimo, who disclosed this while visiting the permanent orientation camp in Ekiti State, on Thursday, said the move was part of measures to prevent the disease from being spread among Nigerian youths at the various orientation camps across the country.


The  NYSC chairman, during a one-day visit to the 2014 Batch “B” corps members at the Ekiti NYSC permanent orientation camp, Ise-Ekiti, in Ise/Orun Local Government Area of the state, said prospective corps members would have to undergo compulsory screening before “they are allowed into the premises of the orientation camps.

The NYSC board chairman added that currently, there had not been any record of the disease among corps members on orientation camps across the nation.