The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Yusha’u Ahmad, has advised corps members to stop thinking about relocating back to their communities, emphasising that life does not end there. It was reported that Ahmad spoke when he visited the NYSC temporary orientation camp on Friday in Kaduna. Addressing corps members of the 2024 batch ‘C stream ‘I,’ …

Jollof+, a product of Baobab Nigeria, one of the finest leading financial services dedicated to supporting the financially excluded and unbanked communities in Nigeria has partnered with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to promote financial literacy and increase awareness of its financial services among corps members nationwide. This initiative, implemented in NYSC camps in Lagos, Sagamu, Abuja, Keffi, and …

A total of 1,979 National Youth Service Corps members, comprising 1,562 for Kaduna State and 417 for the Federal Capital Territory, were sworn in on Friday for the 2024 Batch ‘B’ (Stream II) one-year mandatory service. During the swearing-in ceremony at the NYSC temporary orientation camp at Government College, Kaduna, the State Coordinator, Hassan Mahmud, urged the corps members to …

The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC Bauchi State office has announced a change of venue for the upcoming 2024 Batch ‘B’ Stream II orientation course. The orientation camp will now be held at Adamu Tafawa Balewa College of Education in Kangere, instead of the usual Wailo NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, which is currently undergoing renovations. According to Bauchi State NYSC …

The management of the National Youth Service Corps has lamented that the University of Calabar once mobilised a bread seller on its graduation list for the one-year mandatory national service. It said as part of moves to restore sanity, it has demobilised 54 illegally mobilised graduates of the university to prevent the award of Certificates of National Service to unqualified …

Alhaji Saidu Ibrahim has resumed office as the new Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps, Katsina State. This followed the retirement of the former NYSC Coordinator, Hajiya Aisha Muhammad, from active service on Friday after attaining the civil service mandatory age of 60 years. During a brief handover ceremony in Katsina on Friday, the new Coordinator appealed for more …

The National Youth Service Crop says ninety-nine persons, with the exemption of two others, were fraudulently mobilised from the University of Calabar between the 2021 and 2023 service years. Consequently, the scheme said the Certificates of National Service of the listed 101 persons, have been invalidated while urging members of the public to confirm the authenticity of certificates presented by …

The National Youth Service Corps has denied a social media report that corps members’ bank accounts are being upgraded to accommodate the N70,000 new national minimum wage. The corps said no directive has been given by the relevant authority for it to start the payment of N70, 000 minimum wage to corps members or to upgrade their accounts. According to …

The National Youth Service Corps has declared Okun Christopher, the Akwa Ibom State coordinator of the scheme, and his driver, Daniel Effiong Asibong, missing. Christopher and Asibong went missing while travelling for an official assignment between Delta and Akwa Ibom States on Monday, 29 July 2024. Confirming the development to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, the Director of the Press …

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has warned that graduates of polytechnics and monotechnics without evidence of mandatory one-year Industrial Training (IT) will not participate in national service. The NYSC Coordinator in Lagos State, Mrs Yetunde Baderinwa, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos. Baderinwa said that NYSC had issued a …