The Director of the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Aremu Kehinde, has advised the 2025 Batch A Stream 1 corps members to strive to become job creators and wealth generators. In a speech delivered on his behalf by the Benue State Coordinator, Mrs Veronica Garba, during the opening ceremony of the SAED …

The Minister of Education, Dr. Olatunji Alausa has called for the extension of the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme from one to two years. In a statement posted on NYSC’s official Facebook page on the courtesy visit of the Director-General, Brigadier General Nafiu (rtd.) to the minister in Abuja on Friday, Alausa also called for the expansion of …

The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, has assured corps members that the new monthly allowance of N77,000 will be implemented starting in March 2025. The DG gave the assurance during an interactive session with corps members at the Wuse and Garki NYSC Zonal Offices in Abuja while reaffirming the commitment of both the …

Members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have expressed their disapproval of the Federal Government’s persistent failure to implement the payment of the N77,000 allowance. The Federal Government had approved an increase in the corps members’ monthly allowance from N33,000 to N77,000, effective July 2024. In the same year, the Director-General of the NYSC, Brig. Gen. Yushau Ahmed stated …

The National Youth Service Corps has withdrawn corps members serving in Mbaa, a volatile community in the Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State, due to escalating security threats. This was disclosed in a statement on Thursday by the Assistant Director of Information and Public Relations of the NYSC in the state, Yahuza Adamu. Adamu explained that the decision was …

One of the major core values of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) received a boost recently when the national body went into partnership with a non governmental organisation to support the Federal Government in its Renewed Hope Agenda. Chairman of Silicon Valley Nigeria Economic Development (SV-NED INC USA/SV-NED Energy Limited), Ambassador Amina Temitope Ajayi-Labinjo (well known as Mama Diaspora) …

The National Youth Service Corps has refuted claims circulating on social media suggesting that Prospective Corps Members who have not received their Call-Up Numbers should visit State Secretariats to obtain them. The clarification was issued in a press statement signed by the Acting Director of Information and Public Relations, Caroline Embu, on Tuesday. “The attention of the Management of the …

Corps members across Nigeria will soon begin receiving a new monthly allowance of N77,000, the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General YD Ahmed, has announced. The announcement was made on Tuesday by the Acting Director, Information and Public Relations, Caroline Embu. The statement said, “Corps members across Nigeria will soon begin receiving a new monthly …

Worried by the high rate of youth unemployment in Nigeria, the Federal Government has revoked all previous directives regarding posting restrictions in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). A memo dated 18 November 2024, from the Minister of Youth Development, Comrade Ayodele Olawande, to the NYSC Director General, stated that this lifting of restrictions will take effect from the start …

Akwa Ibom State graduates kidnapped last year in Zamfara State, during a trip to commence their National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), duty in Sokoto State, have appealed to both Federal and their state governments to provide them employment to assist their gradual healing from the trauma. Eight of the corps members who left Uyo, Akwa Ibom capital, heading to Sokoto …