By Alltimepost.com
Little known Omwanghe Precious Nomamien, recently came to limelight, a feat made possible by his sterling academic and community service qualities when he became one of the 168 recipients of the Nigerian President’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Honours Award.
The event which took place on April 26, 2019 in the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in the nation’s capital Abuja, Nigeria was presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who presented the awards to the winners.
Omwanghe, who gave glory to God for the award, told Alltimepost.com that he graduated in 2014 from the Federal College of Agriculture, Institute of Agricultural Research and training, Moor plantation, Ibadan, Nigeria where he studied Agriculture (option in crop production Technology).
He subsequently did his youth service in 2015 with distinction in community service, resulting in the President’s Honours Award.
At the award ceremony, Vice President Osinbajo announced the Federal Government’s automatic employment to all the distinguished youth corpers/recipients of the award. They are to be immediately enlisted in the Federal Civil Service of Nigeria, as directed by the nation’s number two citizen.
Osinbajo also announced automatic scholarships for the awardees to undertake postgraduate studies of their choice. The event was attended by the former Head of State and founder of the NYSC, General Yakubu Gowon (retd).
Omwanghe Precious Nomamien, after the award.
Also in attendance were the Minister of Youths and Sports, Solomon Dalung, and the Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, among other dignitaries, Channels Television had reported.
The President’s NYSC Honours Award, which was introduced in 1974, is aimed at encouraging corps members to contribute to national development by embarking on community development projects, among others.
It was also instituted to reward excellence in service and to encourage coming corps members to imbibe the spirit of dignity in labor and national integration.
One of the criteria used for the selection of winners was corps members who carried out community development services diligently and completed them.
Another measure was those whose community development projects had direct and positive impacts on the communities where they served and those who were committed during the orientation course.
Established under Decree no. 24 the National Youth Service Corps began on May 22, 1973, as a way of involving Nigerian university graduates in nation building and the development of the country by encouraging and developing healthy common ties among the nation’s youths while promoting national unity, for a stronger future Nigeria. Participation in the scheme was later extended to graduates of polytechnics.
Ahmadu Ali served as the first Director-General of the NYSC until 1975. NYSC’s current Director-General is Brig. Gen. Sule Zakari Kazaure. He is the 17th in line since the beginning of the scheme in 1973.
NYSC has remained one of the greatest legacies left by General Yakubu Gowon, who was ousted in a military coup on July 29, 1975, while attending the Organization of African Unity (OAU) meeting in Kampala, Uganda.
