The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Lagos State Coordinator, Mrs. Christiana Salmwang, has urged the 2025 Batch C Corps Members to diligently utilize the skills acquired during the recently concluded in-camp Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) training. She commended their commitment, emphasizing that skill acquisition is a dependable pathway to financial independence.
Mrs. Salmwang encouraged the Corps Members to continuously improve their skills, manage their financial rewards wisely, and apply their newly acquired expertise for personal and national benefit. She also extended sincere appreciation to all sponsors for their cash, gifts, and technical support, which significantly enhanced the Inter-Platoon SAED Competition.
🏅 Competition Highlights and Winners
The competition showcased a diverse range of entrepreneurial and creative skills, with each platoon operating a display tent to demonstrate its craft.
| Category | Sponsor | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | Prize for 1st Place |
| Make-up | Classic Makeover (Model Sponsor) | Platoon 1 | Platoon 5 | Platoon 10 | N/A |
| Bridal Hair Styling | N/A | Platoon 5 | Platoon 3 | Platoon 2 | N/A |
| Barbing | Parallex Bank | Platoon 4 | Platoon 5 | Platoon 9 | ₦100,000 Cash |
| Men’s Fashion Design | Workonnect | Platoon 2 | Platoon 9 | Platoon 1 | Electric Sewing Machine |
The barbing contest, sponsored by Parallex Bank, saw the top three winners awarded cash prizes of ₦100,000, ₦70,000, and ₦50,000. Workonnect sponsored the fashion design category, where the winner, Platoon 2, clinched an electric sewing machine. Classic Makeover sponsored the models for the make-up segment, providing a professional platform for the contestants.
🎨 SAED Exhibition
Workonnect Judges: Left: Funke Adams. Right: Rume Paulson
A major highlight of the closing ceremony was the SAED exhibition, which featured a wide variety of entrepreneurial skills. These included fashion designing, cake baking and decoration, bead-making, shoe and bag making, cosmetology, fish farming, crochet making, waste-to-wealth crafts, make-up/gele tying, and agro-allied ventures.
It was an exhilarating experience for the corpers as they got the opportunity to enjoy raffle draws, discounted CV rewrite opportunities and access to career coaches
MC Valentino was the MC of the day
