 As a National Youth Service Corps, B-String II Orientation Corps commences nationwide the NYSC has charged corps members to fully participate in skills acquisition programs to improve the sources of livelihoods and contribute to the socio-economic development of the country. Plus TV correspondent Habila Darofai files this report as presented in our studios. NYSC has put in place series of programs and activities throughout the period of the Orientation Corps to prepare you for the tasks ahead. I urge you to participate in all kinds of activities and prompt at all events or seemingly am present to you, but they are deliberately planned and packaged to prepare you physically, mentally and emotionally for the challenges of national service and beyond. You must therefore take all activities of the Orientation Corps seriously, especially programs designed to empower you with requisite skills and vocation needed for economic independence during and after the service year. I enjoy you to show all forms of societal biases that deter individuals as well as our collective progress as a people. I challenge you to say no to drug abuse, cultism, internet fraud, rumour mongering, abusive and unguided atrocities that do not portray us well as a great nation. I want to assure you that the security of lives and property of all citizens in our dear state including members of the NYSC remains the top priority of my administration with a view to fashion it out better ways to make your service year more productive. Before I got here, I was told a lot of horrible things about the North. A few of it were the insecurity, the rudeness and the rest. But when I got here, I saw that they are the most peaceful set of people. They are friendly and above all they work home and they are hospitable. Being honest, it wasn't what I was expecting because we had a lot of things back there in the South. A bad way things are here but it's actually very different. It's calm. I came in here late into the night and nothing happened. The streets have been calmed. The people have been kind to me. Even the soldiers themselves have been really, really nice.