By Abel Daniel LAFIA – Not less than 55 Corps members and staff of INEC deployed to serve as presiding officers were held hostage for 24 hours in Assakio, Ashige and Adogi in Lafia local government area on Saturday. The corps members who were rescued by security men and brought to the INEC Headquarter in […]
Emmanuel Unogu A former corps member, Emmanuel Unogu, has been offered N100,000 by the National Youth Service Corps for the loss of his right leg during the service year. Unogu, who served with the Urueffong/Oruka Local Government, Akwa Ibom State in 2008, was involved in an auto accident, which later led to the loss […]
By DAYO ADESULU Director General, National Youth Service Corps, Brig Johnson Olawunmi has warned the Batch A corps members against becoming tools for politicians to rig elections as they (corps members) will be election officials come 2015. Olawunmi who was speaking at the swearing-in-ceremony of the 2014 Batch A corps members in Lagos said that […]
The Lagos State Police Command has commenced investigation into the kidnap of a 29-year-old National Youth Service Corps member, Ayobami Jaiyeola. Relatives of the victim told PUNCH Metrothat she was last seen while leaving her elder sister’s house at Dideolu Estate in the Oniru area of the state in the evening of Friday last week. When […]
When in November 2012, Winifred Okey, received a call-up letter to begin her National Youth Service Corps programme in Rivers State, she was extremely happy. This was because she wanted to be posted there so that she would be close to her friends, who were staying there. The 23-year-old graduate’s happiness was however cut short […]
By EGUFE YAFUGBORHI PORT HARCOURT — Rumuewhor community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, has tasked the Rivers State Government and the Police to intensify efforts to secure the release of abducted two National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members by kidnappers in the state. It will be recalled that two NYSC members were, […]
Jos – The Federal Government said on Thursday that it would reopen National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) farms in each state of the federation. The Minister for youth Development, Dr Inuwa Abdulkadir, said this in an interview in Jos, Plateau. Abdulkadir said that the establishment of the farms would go a long way to complement […]
From MOSHOOD ADEBAYO, Abeokuta A 28-year-old youth corps member was crushed to death on Tuesday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Egbe Ogbu, who had almost completed his national service year was said to have been hit by a car driven by a 52-year-old woman, Kehinde Olubanke. The police, while arraigning Olubanke in an Abeokuta […]
From CHRIS ANUCHA, Port Harcourt Four female members of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) were at the weekend, kidnapped in Rivers State. They were, however, rescued by a team of security agents. They were abducted at the NYSC Transit Camp, Iriebe, near Oyigbo, by a gang of seven armed men that gained entry into […]
WORKERS of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) across the country have issued a 21-day ultimatum to the management, within which to effect improvement in their conditions of service or, in the alternative, down tool. This was part of the agreement reached at the just-concluded meeting of the NYSC national coordinating committee of the Amalgamated Union of […]
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