Kogi State State Governor Yahaya Bello has approved a 100 per cent increment in the allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) deployed to the state for their mandatory one-year service.
In a statement in Lokoja, the state capital, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Mohammed Onogwu, said the governor made the approval considering the current economic realities and the overall importance of the NYSC scheme to national and state development.
During the closing ceremony of the 2023 Batch ‘B’ Stream 2 of the NYSC at the State’s Orientation Camp, Asanya, in Kabba Bunu Local Government Area on Tuesday, the governor also announced a donation of N37.7 million as logistics support for the youth corps members as they move to their respective places of primary assignments and called on private sector employers to prioritise their welfare.
He charged the corps members to be of good behaviour and encouraged them to embrace the spirit of ‘One Nigeria’ and treat all citizens as fellow Nigerians, transcending ethnic and religious boundaries.
The state’s NYSC Coordinator, Pastor (Mrs.) Adebimpe Williams, and the Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Hon. Idris Musa commended Bello for his administration’s longstanding support for the programme.
They also stressed the importance of good behaviour at the corps members’ primary assignments, highlighting that absenteeism from a Place of Primary Assignment remained a serious violation that the scheme strongly discouraged, with significant disciplinary consequences.
In all, 1,888 corps members, comprising 977 males and 911 females, were deployed to the state.
