Reimagining NYSC: A Journey to National Transformation

Fatai, Afeez Olansile is a research assistant, Directorate of Linkages and Collaboration, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria. Prior to this bagged Ph.D. in urban geography, Department of Geography, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria; MSc in geography (University of Ibadan), BSc in geography and regional planning (Lagos State University), PGD and associate member in customer relationship management (Chartered Institute of Customer Relationship Management).

He has to his credits professional short courses certificates on health safety and environment (HSE I & II), quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC), onshore and offshore petroleum marketing (03GP), environmental impact assessment (EIA), project management professional (PMP) among others. His research interests include geography of begging; space and sexuality, space, prostitution and sex-trade, locational behaviour to sexuality and sexual trafficking; space and substance abuse; space, science, and security; space and diseases; GIS and locational analysis, spatial and temporal mapping of urban disorders; urban planning, governance and resilience; quantitative and qualitative analysis of begging; policy analysis, design and evaluation on urban challenges, educational, national and youth development. He is a strong believer in youth inclusion for governance. He has to his credit more than ten articles published in reputable local, national and international journals among other scholarly outputs.