(a). Highlight five major empowerment skills that youths require for self-reliance in Nigerian society?
(b). State five reasons for the establishment of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Nigeria.
Explanation
(a). - Life Coping Skills
These are natural skills which every organism including man, acquires from birth to adapt fittingly in his or its environment. They are survival Instincts or skills. They are natural things we do to survive, avert dander and assert our individuality, e.g., crude farming, running on an errand, hunting, learning to make shelter, fishing, obeying laws and authorities, avoiding conflicts, etc these skills graduate from simple crude form to a more complex, learned and modernized forms.
- Manipulative Skills
These skills are seen in skills acquisition centres as it involves economic activities that inculcate skills such as technical education. Computer, field events, mining, manufacturing, technological works, scientific experiments, construction, engineering, productive ventures, gadgets and machine manipulations (whether digital or analogue), building, wielding, carpentry, mechanics etc.
- Intellectual Skills
These skills are coordinates in character. It is the literary or theoretical frameworks that guide the practical aspects of the works, economic and scientific undertakings. In the primary sense, it is called brain work. Without the intellectual skills, no other skills can function as they are the master minds, motivators and co-coordinators. It is the engine of all activities generating the initiative and innovations in all their designs.
- Communicative Skills
Communication is a very important aspect of our life. Man evolved communications skills as a social being to enable him pass or send information from one person to the other or from place to place. Communicative skills assist the intellectual skills to be expressed adequately and specifically.
- Artistic Skills:
These are close to communicative skills and are more complex. Includes they art of good writing, fine and applied arts, music and drama. These skills make effective use of all the other four kinds of skills where necessary. Those who employ or have these skills are said to be adepts or experts, examples: Artists, Graphic designers, Musicians, Comedians, Actors, Actresses, etc. life coping skills agree with the artisan identity, the intellectual skills agree with the manager identity while the rest agree with the classical entrepreneur identity. Skills can be generally divided into two, namely, craftsman and entrepreneurial skills which tally with the life coping skills, manipulative skills and opportunistic entrepreneurial skills which match with the intellectual, artistic and communicative skills.
(b). - To develop common ties among the Nigerian youths and promote national unity and integration.
- To raise the moral tone of the Nigerian youths by giving them the opportunity to learn about higher ideals of national achievement, social and cultural improvement.
- To develop in the Nigerian youths the attitudes of mind, acquired through shared experience and suitable training. which will make them more amenable to mobilisation in the national interest.
- The equitable distribution of members of the service corps and the effective utilization of their skills in area of national needs.
- To encourage corps members to eschew religious intolerance by accommodating religious differences.