NYSC
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News
Over 38,000 corps members thriving as entrepreneurs – NYSC DG
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said that over 38,000 corps members have successfully ventured into entrepreneurship and are thriving as business owners. The Director General of the NYSC, Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, made this known during his keynote address at the Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) Stakeholders’…
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News
FG to reform NYSC, float special bank for youths
ABUJA – The federal government has announced initiatives to transform the prospects and opportunities for Nigerian youth. The initiatives include a reform of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to focus more on ensuring that when young people finish school, they are ready to obtain good jobs or start their…
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News
Secure lives of NYSC members or scrap the programme (2)
In 2019, Magdalene Yohanna collapsed at the NYSC Wailo camp, in Ganjuwa LGA, Bauchi State and later died a few minutes after she was rushed to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi. She was reported to have been compelled to participate in a task even after complaining of ill-health.…
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Featured
NYSC: Osun state extends service of 27 corp members
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Osun State has confirmed the service extension of 27 corps members for various infractions. According to the NYSC, 20 corps members absconded during the 2021 Batch C Stream II service year. Olayinka Abdulwahab, the Osun NYSC State Coordinator, made this known during the…
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Politics
NYSC scandal rocks Stella Oduah’s political career, corps says she never completed mandatory service
The National Youth Service Corps says the lawmaker representing Anambra-North senatorial district, Stella Oduah, did not complete the mandatory one-year NYSC programme.
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Metro
Hotel manager allegedly tells NYSC intern to bring beer, rapes her inside Osogbo office
The police arrested the hotel manager located around the GRA Area in Osogbo for allegedly raping a female corps member serving at his hotel.
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News
NBC grants TV broadcast licence to NYSC
The National Broadcasting Commission has granted an operational television broadcast licence to the National Youth Service Corps.
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News
‘Yes, we detained female soldier for openly accepting romantic proposal from NYSC member’ — Nigerian Army
The Nigerian Army has confirmed the detention of an unnamed female soldier who got romantically entangled with a male corps member at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in Yikpata, Kwara State.
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News
Matu Esky: Promising Nigerian singer dies on way to NYSC camp
Esky was the firstborn of four children.
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News
Focus on national service, not on night parties — NYSC advises corps members
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has warned Batch C Stream 1 corps members against night parties and participating in local politics of their host communities.