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Oyo HoS charges Corps members on self-sustainability

Ihesiulo Grace 11 April 2018 0

A call has gone to National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members, particularly those who have completed their one-year mandatory service to think of being self-reliance rather than looking for white collar jobs. Giving the charge was the Head of Service, Oyo State, Mrs Hannah Ogunesan, during an

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Insecurity/Rape: NYSC boss push for a new deal

Ihesiulo Grace 14 March 2018 0

The State Coordinator National Youth Service Corps, Plateau State, Mrs Olutumilayo Akin-Moses, has tasked security agencies to step up its security mechanism to better protect the country from incessant crisis and harassment faced by Corps Members across the country. The Coordinator stated this Wednesday in Jos, at a workshop tagged, “2018 NYSC CORPS EMPLOYERS’

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NYSC DG task corps members to shun white collar jobs

Ihesiulo Grace 26 January 2018 0

The Director-General of the National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Suleiman Kazaure has urged corps members not to rely on white collar jobs after the one year compulsory service to their father land, but rather equip themselves to be employers of labour. “I besiege you to key into the Service’s Skills Acquisition Entrepreneurship Development,

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Umahi tells corps members to shun social vices, as Ahmed charges them for nation building

Ihesiulo Grace 24 November 2017 0

Members of the National Youth Service Corps(NYSC), deployed to Ebonyi State yesterday cautioned to shun social vices such as corruption, ethnic bigotry, religious intolerance, violence and indiscipline in the course of their service to the nation. Also, Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara has charged corps members to be prepared for the rigours of nation building […]

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Allow graduates do post-graduate without NYSC certificate, Reps tell NUC

Ihesiulo Grace 16 November 2017 0

The House of Representatives on Wednesday advised the National Universities Commission (NUC) to allow fresh graduates enroll for Masters Degree Programmes in universities without requiring them serve in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. The resolution of the House was sequel to the adoption of a motion sponsored by Hon. Muhammad Sani Zorro The […]

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Corper raped in Cross River

Ihesiulo Grace 2 October 2017 0

The police in Cross River State have confirmed the arrest of one Michael Edet who raped a serving corps member (name withheld) after breaking into her residence in Ekpri-Obutong in the Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State. The incident happened on Friday at about 11pm at Block A6, Obutong Estate in Ekpri-Obutong when […]

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NYSC releases 2017/18 requirements for registration, mobilization of graduates

Ihesiulo Grace 23 March 2017 0

The National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, has released its plans for the 2017 Batch ‘A’ mobilization of prospective corps members. The service said it’s online registration portal will open as from Monday 17th April to Thursday 4th May, 2017 to enable prospective corps members register for the 2017 Batch ‘A’ mobilization. In a message on […]

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NYSC re-opens orientation in Adamawa after five years

Ihesiulo Grace 27 January 2017 0

The deployment of 2017/2018 batch B corp members of the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC) has commenced, more than five years after the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East forced the federal government to close down the camp in Adamawa state. The state governor, Sen. Mohammed Jibrilla, disclosed this while flagging off the official […]

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2, 680 Batch ‘A’ Corps Members Deployed to Rivers

Ihesiulo Grace 11 May 2015 0

A total of 2,680 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members have been deployed to Rivers State, for the compulsory one-year service. The corpers, who comprised 1,165 males and 1,515 females, took the oath of allegiance to observe the rules and regulations guiding the NYSC, at their permanent Orientation Camp in Nonwa-Gbam, Tai Local Government Area […]

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Osun NUJ Decries Attack on Journalists

Ihesiulo Grace 16 April 2015 0

The Nigerian Union of Journalist (NUJ), Osun State chapter, has condemned the attack on some of its members on Tuesday, by suspected thugs, hired by the disputing leaders of Trade Union Congress (TUC). The two factions in the ‎TUC had caused confusion and chaos at Osun State Government Secretariat on Tuesday over difference of opinion […]

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Alleged Electoral Fraud: Ex-NYSC Boss’s Trial Stalled in A’Ibom

Ihesiulo Grace 15 April 2015 0

Attempt by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to arraign Maj. Gen. EdetAkpan (rtd) before a court has been put on hold following a three-day, no-court session by the Akwa Ibom State Judiciary.   Akpan, a former Director- General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) was […]

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Nigerians in Diaspora Blast Oba Akiolu

Ihesiulo Grace 13 April 2015 0

Nigerians in diaspora, under the umbrella of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), have flayed the Lagos monarch, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, for his threat against the Igbo people resident in the nation’s major commercial city. The group, who took their protest to the International Criminal Court (ICC), The Hague, Netherlands and Nigerian High Commission, in […]

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Oshiomhole Tasks INEC on Credible Polls

Ihesiulo Grace 26 March 2015 0

Ahead of the March 28 presidential election, Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure the delivery of voting materials to the polling centres on time, so as to guarantee credible democratic elections. Speaking to the Edo State INEC Resident Commissioner, who paid him a courtesy visit at […]

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Polls: NYSC Calls for Security of Corps Members

Ihesiulo Grace 26 March 2015 0

Ahead of Saturday’s poll, the Akwa Ibom State Co-ordinator of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC), Lady Ngozi Chukwuka, has called for more security measures for the safety of corps members engaged to the forthcoming election. She made this call in Uyo, on Wednesday, during a town hall meeting of the Mitigation of Violence in […]

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Polls: Sultan Advises Corps Members to Be Patriotic, Neutral

Ihesiulo Grace 23 March 2015 0

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has advised corps members participating in the conduct of the March 28 and April 11 election to resist any forms of material inducement that would compromise them, even as he asked them to be patriotic and non-partisan agents of the electoral body. The Sultan gave the […]