The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Nigeria has admitted it made a mistake in the discharge certificate of Governor Godwin Obaseki if Edo State. Subsequently the scheme has issued another certified to the governor. The NYSC certificate is one of the credentials aside from his Higher School Certificate (HSC) certificate that the APC used in
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A total of 3,704, 2019 Batch ‘B’ Stream 1 National Youth Service Coors (NYSC) members in Anambra State on Thursday commenced collection of their discharge certificates during the passing out ceremony across the state. This is even as four corps members would have their service years extended to three years over various offences. The NYSC
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A National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member identified as Cynthia Ifunanya Chigbo serving in Anambra State has reportedly passed away. The deceased corps member, an indigene of Enugu state, reportedly died in Enugu where she resides with her parents. Friends of the deceased had taken to their various social media accounts to share very touching
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A Nigerian Youth Service Corps member in Ondo State has tested positive to COVID-19. The corps member, whose identity has not been revealed, has contracted the disease from the index case. THE DAILY VENDOR learnt that the corps member was a medical doctor, having his primary assignment, at the 32 Artillery Brigade, Owena Cantonment, and
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The National Youth Service Corps has suspen (NYSC) ded its weekly Community Development Service activities indefinitely. This is coming a few days after shutting down its orientation camps nationwide. The suspension of the CDS was contained in a press statement obtained by our correspondent on Friday. The statement, which was signed by NYSC Director of
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The Nigerian Government has ordered the immediate closure of the ongoing National Youth Service Corps orientation camps nationwide over fear of coronavirus. The 2020 Batch A Stream One NYSC members arrived on camp on March 10 and were expected to leave three weeks after. But the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, on
Read moreThe National Youth Service Corps on Monday denied it had spent the February allowances of corps members on the fight against the spread of coronavirus in the country. The NYSC said the reports emanated from mischief-makers and that they were making efforts to apprehend the masterminds behind the story. The scheme said these in a statement
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The Osun State Commissioner of Police, Johnson Kokumo, has directed an investigation into the killing of a member of the National Youth Service Corps, Adebayo Mukaila, by some suspected robbers. It was gathered that the late Mukaila, who is also a Point of Sale operator, was shot dead near his shop in the Omo-West Area
Read moreThe Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, has said that corps members’ monthly allowance has been increased to N33,000. He said the Federal Government approved N33,000 in line with the new national minimum wage. Previously, the corps members are paid N19,800 as monthly allowance. According to a statement made available by NYSC on its Facebook page,
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National Youth Service Corps state coordinator in Kwara, Mrs. Tosin Ikupolati, has advised corps members serving in the state to always dress decently. Ikupolati gave the advice on Wednesday at the closing of the camp for the Batch “C” Stream II Orientation Course at the NYSC Camp in Yikpata, Edu Local Government Area of the
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