Editorial: Barring NYSC members from Yobe, Borno

The orientation course for fresh graduates mobilized for Batch ‘C’ of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme took off across the country on November 15 with instructions for those posted to the volatile Yobe and Borno states not to report there. They have since been reposted to Nasarawa and Benue States, in fulfillment of […]

Rape of female corps member: Suspects remanded in prison custody

Two suspects accused of raping a female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Kano State have been remanded in prison custody by a Kano Chief Magistrate Court. The suspects, Abba Garba 18 and Abubakar Sulemain, 17, were remanded in prison custody over their alleged complicity in the rape incident that took place […]

Rape of corps member: Osun monarch in court on stretcher

Reprieve came the way of an Osun State monarch, Alowa of Ilowa, Oba Adebukola Alli who is standing trial for allegedly raping a corps member, Miss Helen Okpara, as an Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, yesterday granted him bail. Alli was brought to the court in Ilesa Prison Ambulance van and remained on […]

Youth Corps member gang-raped in Kano

TWO weeks after the uproar over the reported gang-raping of a student of Abia State University by five hoodlums, the police in Kano State, yesterday, paraded two of the four men who allegedly gang-raped a youth corps member. One of the suspects has confessed to having allegedly taken part in ‘’gang-raping’’ the youth corps member […]

NYSC opens bids for 2011 capital projects

NATIONAL Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has opened 13 bids for the execution of its 2011 capital projects across NYSC orientation camps in the country. Items bidded for are: Tents, Water-tankers, Generators and Toyota Hillux van. Speaking during the opening of tenders in Abuja, the Director General of NYSC, Brig-General Maharazu Tsiga told the contractors that […]

Boko Haram: NYSC DG denies bomb blasts at orientation camps

THE Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Mahazu Tsiga, has denied media reports that there were bomb blasts at some orientation camps of the NYSC in the country. Speaking at the NYSC orientation camp in Tsafe, Zamfara State, on Tuesday, the DG said such reports were aimed at distracting the attention of […]

Corpers reject NYSC postings to North

Presidency assures of security AT no other time has the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme come under heavy attacks as now and the pressure may not ease any time soon going by the reaction that greeted the recent release of the Scheme’s batch A posting which has many corpers from the South-West, South-East and […]

NYSC allowance ’ll be N50,000 soon -DG

THE Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General, Ismaila Maharazu Tsiga, has said the leadership of the NYSC  would continue to lobby government  on the need to increase corps members’ allowance  to N50, 000 per month, adding that the  new allowance of N19, 800 to corps members would take effect from March […]

NYSC appeals to Kano communities, traditional rulers on safety

THE Kano State coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mallam Lawal Zariya, has appealed to various communities and traditional leaders in the state to assist the organisation in ensuring the protection of life and property of corps members deployed in the state. The corps members, according to him, were leaders of tomorrow, a […]

Boko Haram: NYSC Members Besiege Hqtrs For Redeployment

In an expression of heightened concern over the growing insecurity in the country, especially in the north, about 20,000 corps members posted to the northern states have besieged the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) headquarters in Abuja, to seek redeployment. This scenario played out yesterday morning as prospective 2011 batch ‘B’ corps members waiting to […]

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