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Picture: Amazing story of a corp member – Back from the dead

This corps member resurrected in mortuary, but is now blind Photo: Sun News Publishing By: VICTOR EBIMOMI Date: Sun, 05/27/2012 – 15:00 Yobe State, for the national youth service programme. But his world turned upside down when he got involved in a car crash that claimed the lives of 16 of his fellow corps members […]

Report defaulting banks, NYSC tells corps members

Posted by admin Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp) Thursday, May 24th, 2012

NYSC members | credits: File copy National Youth Service Corps has directed members of the scheme yet to receive their April allowances to report defaulting banks to their respective state NYSC secretariats. Many corps members had accused the NYSC of non-payment of their April allowances. But the National Headquarters of the NYSC insisted that it […]

Facebook: Female corps member in NDLEA’s net over drugs

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency), NYSC (National Youth Service Corp) Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Those with unknown long distance friends on Facebook may need to be wary as a female corps member is now in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over drug parcel sent by her London-based Facebook friend. The lady had, at the weekend, received a telephone call from her London friend about […]

18 corps members feared killed in auto crash

Posted by admin Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp) Friday, March 9th, 2012

Eighteen graduates of the Imo State University, Owerri, are said to have died in an auto crash on Thursday night. The graduates were said to be on their way to the National Youth Service Corps camp in Taraba State for their orientation programme. They were said to be intending Batch ‘A’ corps members. It was […]

Corps members serve as tea girls, boys at N’Assembly

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Raw Politics, Senate Saturday, February 25th, 2012

Some National Youth Service Corps members serving at the National Assembly have decried the shabby way they are treated by members of the legislature. Findings by SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday showed that the corps members were disappointed after discovering that serving at the Assembly was neither rosy nor challenging, contrary to their expectations. A male […]

Gunmen abduct 2 NYSC members, friend in Rivers

Posted by admin NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Rivers, State News Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Gunmen have kidnapped two members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and their female friend in Odagwa, Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State. The two NYSC members (a male and female) are attached to C.S.S in that community. Soon after the incident, security operatives were said to have got an alert and went […]

Corps members flee Taraba over Boko Haram

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp) Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

JTF imposes curfew on Potiskum CORPS members serving in Taraba State have begun to return to their various states of origin over the fear of possible attacks by the fundamentalist Islamic group, Boko Haram. Also, the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Yobe State has imposed a 14-hour curfew on Potiskum over last Friday’s Boko Haram’s […]

Anglican Church laments sexual abuse of female corps members

Posted by admin NYSC (National Youth Service Corp) Sunday, December 11th, 2011

The Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), The Most Reverend Nicholas Okoh, on Sunday, at the Bible Study session,prelude to the Holy Communion Service at the Cathedral Church of The Advent in Abuja, lamented how ladies, expecially those on National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) are losing their virginity due to widespread unemployment. He declared: […]

Illegal NYSC camp smashed in Niger

Posted by admin Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp) Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

An illegal National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp has been smashed in Niger State by the state command of the State Security Service (SSS) and after a raid of the place by its operatives, no fewer than 34 victims of the illicit orientation camp were arrested. Among the victims of the scam that were picked up […]

Court Dismisses Suit to Abolish NYSC

Posted by admin Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp) Monday, November 28th, 2011

Youth Corps members By Davidson Iriekpen Justice Jonathan Shakarho of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan has dismissed the suit filed by an Ibadan-based legal practitioner, Oluwole Aluko, seeking to invalidate the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. Following the killings of some corps members in some parts of the North in the aftermath […]