•Tinubu and NYSC members President Bola Tinubu has directed the immediate employment of 200 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) honorees into the federal civil service. The president speaking yesterday also announced ₦250,000 cash award for the 200 honorees in recognition of their outstanding service during the 2020–2023 service years, reports...
•Governor Umo Eno and some NYSC members As part of the resolutions reached at the State Executive Council meeting held yesterday, Monday July 7, 2025, Akwa Ibom State governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has approved 20,000 naira monthly Allowance for all Youth Corps members of Akwa Ibom State origin serving across Nigeria. This approval comes on [&helli...
•Governor Umo Eno and NYSC members Akwa Ibom State governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has approved an increase in the monthly state allowance for NYSC members serving in the state from N5,000 to ₦20,000 with effect from August 1, 2025. The governor made this announcement during Day Two of the State Delivery Meeting, held today, Friday, […]
•NYSC members The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohamed Marwa (Rtd), has said that the push for drug integrity tests for youth corps members, prospective couples, and others is not punitive. Rather, it is intended to discourage substance abuse and provide early treatment fo...
•NYSC members After several months of delay, members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) may have a reason to smile as the federal government yesterday promised to pay the backlog of the new ₦77,000 monthly allowance. The federal government increased corps members’ allowance from ₦33,000 to ₦77, 000 in September 2024. Despite repeated p...
•NYSC members Human rights lawyer and activist Inibehe Effiong says members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) are not civil servants who can’t criticise the federal government administration. The lawyer made this known on Channels Television today in reaction to the ordeal of Lagos-based NYSC member, Ushie Uguamaye, who flayed Tinubu’...
•NYSC members Nigerian students under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) today, called for the probe of the leadership of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) over the non-payment of the approved N77,000 monthly allowance for serving corps members. The student body expressed dismay that NYSC is yet to implement th...
•Police The Police Special Fraud Unit has arrested eight students, four members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), and two others over alleged fraud. The suspects between ages 18 and 28, were arrested on January 15 at Saapade in Ogun State, a statement by Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Johnson Eyitayo, said yesterday. [&he...
The Minister for Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, has disclosed that the ministry will send a memo to President, Bola Tinubu, mandating all government agencies and parastatals not to reject corps members assigned to them for their mandatory one-year service. The minister stated this at a press conference in Abuja today, when he was asked a...
•Youth Corpers The federal government has approved the increase of Corps Members’ monthly allowance to ₦77,000 with effect from July 2024. In a statement yesterday, a spokesperson for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Caroline Embu, said the increment was in line with the enactment of the National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Act 2024. Embu...
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