By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has advised Nigerian youths to look beyond culture, ethnicity and religion in relating with one another. President Buhari also urged them to embark on more travels, mingling, tolerance and negotiations to appreciate the rich diversity of the country. He gave the...
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President Muhammadu Buhari has donated 10 rams, two cows and N1 million to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC ) members serving in his home town, Daura, in Katsina State. The President made the donation during the Sallah celebration with the NYSC members on Saturday in Daura. He commended...
Gunmen suspected to be robbers have attacked a lodge where some members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) reside in Akwa Ibom State. It was gathered that the gunmen at about 1am on Wednesday, attacked and dispossessed Corps members of their valuables at Udo Ekong Ekwere Street, off...
By RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa – The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brigadier General Mohammed. K. Fadah has charged corps members across the country to make good use of the skills acquisition programmes acquired while on training camps as there are no government jobs readily available...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has condemned the alleged act of electoral misconduct involving a corps member, Orji Nkenna and some staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Osun State. This is contained in a statement by the NYSC Director, Press and Public Relations, Mr Eddy...
BY RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa – About 2,500 corps members deployed to Nasarawa State for their National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) have taken their oaths of allegiance and sworn in at the scheme permanent orientation camp. The corps members, who are set of 2022 Batch B stream I, took their...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has directed the Borno State Ministry of Health and Human Services to employ all the 40 fresh medical doctors that recently passed out and graduated from various tertiary institutions within and outside the country into the Borno State...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved the provisional licence for the take-off of the Enugu State University of Medical and Applied Sciences (ESUMAS), located in Igbo-Eno community of the state . The Executive Secretary of the Commission Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, while handing over...
Sokoto State Government has announced the suspension of the resumption of basic and secondary schools in the state by one week. The News of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that the schools are supposed to resume on Sunday and Monday, for boarding and day students. The suspension was announced via...
Ortom describes murder of NYSC member Terungwa unacceptable, tasks Police on diligent investigations
Ortom describes murder of NYSC member Terungwa unacceptable, tasks Police on diligent investigations
By YEMI ITODO, Markudi – Benue State Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom, has described as intolerable, murder of the Benue born Youth Corps member, Stephanie Se-Ember Terungwa, who was posted to Abuja by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) for her one year mandatory national service. Terungwa, a graduate of...
BY RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa – A total of one thousand, nine hundred and thirty seven (1937) NYSC members on Thursday participated in the national orientation camp Passing Out Parade (POP) which has the Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe in attendance. The event took place at the...
BY RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa – Nasarawa Stae Governor, Abdullahi Sule has commissioned a mullt-million naira ultra-model skills acquisition centre at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Keffi with a call on corps members to take the training seriously as white collar jobs are no more available.. The skills acquisition centre...
An hotel manager, who allegedly raped a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member in Osogbo, will appear in court on Tuesday. SP Yemisi Opalola, the Police Spokesperson, Osun Command, Nigeria Police, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview. Opalola said that police...
A serving member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Alamin Saleh Bature has been rescued from Abuja kidnappers by good Samaritans. PRNigeria gathered that the swift intervention and efforts of an Igbo Christian, identified as Godspower Chinaechrem and two Northern Muslims, helped in the rescue of the victim...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan – The Oyo State Police Command has debunked the media reports making the rounds that its officers had shot at a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member in Ibadan. The command in a statement issued on Friday by its spokesman, Adewale Osifeso, described the information...
BY RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa – The Director-General of the the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) , Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim, has charged corp members in the country to be proactive in the discharge of their duties during their service year. Maj. Gen. gave the charge on Tuesday while declaring...
Private Hannah Sofiat Akinlabi, a female soldier detained after video clips of her being proposed to by a male corps member at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in Yikpata, Kwara State, went viral on social media has been released by the Nigerian Army. It was gathered...
The family of a youth corper simply identified as Remi, who proposed to a female soldier, Private Sofiyat Akinlabi, at the National Youth Service Corps Orientation Camp in Yikpata, Kwara State, has said that the duo started their friendship three years ago in Abeokuta, Ogun State. According to the...
The Nigerian Army on Sunday said an unnamed female soldier who got romantically entangled with a male corps member at the National Youth Service Corps Orientation Camp in Yikpata, Kwara State, will be penalised for violating military rules and regulations. The Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The remains of the 24-year old prospective corp member, Matui Esky, who was killed in a fatal crash on his way to Katsina State, for the three weeks mandatory orientation exercise, has been buried. The burial service and interment which was held at the...