Nigeria, June 30 -- The Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, has listed some of the proposed changes to the law and operations of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that the proposed changes were approved at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Monday.

While some of these changes require amendment to the NYSC Act, others are simply administrative changes.

In a post on his X handle, the minister explained that the reform began last year through "a broad-based, multi-stakeholder review involving the Federal Ministry of Youth Development, the Federal Ministry of Education and the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Policy and Coordination."

"Today, that hard work has...