Widespread apprehension has gripped prospective corps members and their families as the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) 2026 Batch A (Stream 1) orientation exercise commences across the country, with thousands deployed to states currently plagued by banditry and insurgency. The 21-day orientation exercise, which officially kicked off on Wednesday, January 21, has seen corps members […]
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening collaboration with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) on empowerment of Corps members. It describes SMEDAN as a critical stakeholder in its Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme, which has trained and empowered thousands of Corps Members to […]
The Management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has reaffirmed its commitment to reforms for enhanced service delivery and alignment of its operations with current realities. The Director-General (DG), Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, stated this at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Annual Management Conference (AMC) of the Scheme, which took place in Jos, […]
The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, has called on corps members to deepen their sense of patriotism and commitment to national service as Nigeria enters the 2026 service year. In his New Year message, Nafiu commended corps members and NYSC staff for their dedication and resilience in […]
The measure of a man and his relevance to society is not his affluence, but how much of himself he has given, or prepared to give to make life worthwhile to others, building people and institutions as well as engendering solid development for national growth. Shuaibu Ibrahim, a Brigadier General in the Nigerian Army and […]
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Wednesday said it had planned ahead of the emergency closure of all camps across the country and posted corps members for their primary assignment. The South West Director of the scheme, Mr Attah Emmanuel, made the disclosure in a telephone interview on Wednesday. NYSC suspends ongoing orientation course […]
The Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has appealed to Corps Members to be conscious of their health even as he urged them to imbibe good hygiene and hand washing especially with the Coronavirus outbreak in the country. He said the NYSC Scheme is very interested in the well-being of […]
Grace Adzer, the Yobe State Coordinator, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has advised corps members to avoid negative tendencies that could jeopardise their lives. Adzer gave the advice at a low-key passing out ceremony of 570 Batch “A” corps members on Thursday in Damaturu. READ ALSO: FCT Minister says NYSC Sports, Cultural Festival promotes national […]
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has described the reports purportedly to have been issued by the NYSC Director – General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim that the February allowance of Corps Members had been channelled towards the fight against Coronavirus as fake news. The NYSC Director, Press and Public Relations, Adenike Adeyemi, in a statement sent […]
Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra has promised to complete ongoing projects at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Secretariat in the state before the end of his tenure in 2022. Obiano made the promise on Wednesday when Mr Kehinde Aremu, the state Coordinator of NYSC, paid him a courtesy visit at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia […]
Two serving members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), in Kano State, Mohammed Alhaji-Musa and Hauwa Yahaya-Bagudu are set to get married on Friday at the Nigerian Air force base Juma’at Mosque. The NYSC Coordinator in Kano, Malam Ladan Baba, said in interview on Wednesday, that the 2019 Batch ‘A’ corps members informed him of […]
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said that efforts are in top gear to ensure drastic reduction in cases of corps members evasion and abscondment from service especially by foreign-trained Nigerian graduates. The Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim said this yesterday at the NYSC Legal Officers’ Workshop with the theme ‘NYSC: Call to Service’, held […]
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Bayelsa said on Tuesday that the scheme did not record any casualty in the shooting of a commercial bus driver and another person by a policeman in Yenagoa. Recall that a mobile policeman on Monday evening shot a driver with Peace Mass Transit and one person at Ekeki […]
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has set aside N26 million to replace a Corps member’s amputated limbs in Kano state. The state NYSC Coordinator, Malam Ladan Baba disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday when he led other officials of the scheme to visit the corps member, Nuruddeen Tahir at his family house in Gwarzo […]
Mutiat Alli – Lagos Genre: Comedy Timing: 1hour 30 minutes Director: Tade Ogidan Year of Cinema Release: 2019 There is no gainsaying that Tade Ogidan is one of the big masquerades of the Nigerian movie industry who does not come to town regularly but whenever he comes, he dances well to the delight of his […]
Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has rescheduled his United States tour to focus on the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme, which he is currently undergoing. The singer made this known on his Instagram page, where he revealed that the dates of his tour conflicts with his NYSC programme. SaharaReporters had questioned […]
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brigadier-General Johnson Olawumi has assured corps members working as ad hoc staff for the elections of adequate security as Nigerians troop out to vote today. More than 168,000 corps members were participating in the exercise across the country. About 75,000 had opted out after it became clear […]
The National Conscience Party (NCP) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of plotting to substitute and replace presiding officers who are corps members with non-corps members. The party said this in a petition addressed to the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr. Adekunle Ogunmola, a copy of which was made available to newsmen […]
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, on Friday stated that there is no machine can jam the smart card readers to be used during the general elections, dismissing speculations in some quarters that the PVCs may not work on election day. The INEC chairman also revealed that the […]