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  • NYSC Acting Director-General seeks allowance increase for corps members

    NYSC Acting Director-General seeks allowance increase for corps members

    Mrs. Christy Uba, Acting Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has called for a review of the allowance paid to corps members.

    The Acting Director-General made the request during a courtesy visit by the Chairman of, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu.

    Uba said corps members were eager to participate in the 2023 general election.

    She described the meeting as timely, stressing that the NYSC was committed to the partnership.

    In her words: “A lot has been achieved. The corps members are ready. The youths are very interested and it is expected that everyone that is part of the committee will go back and cross the t’s and dot the i’s. NYSC is committed to the partnership with INEC. We have come a long way and we cannot go back, a lot has been achieved.”

    On the need for an increase of the allowance, Uba said it was in view of “the prevailing economic realities”.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that NYSC is a program set up by the Nigerian government during the military regime to involve Nigerian graduates in nation-building and the development of the country.

    There is no military conscription in Nigeria, but since 1973 graduates of universities and later polytechnics have been required to take part in the National Youth Service Corps program for one year.[1] This is known as national service year. Ahmadu Ali served as the first Director-General of the NYSC until 1975.[2] The incumbent Director-General is Mohammed Kaku Fadah.

    Major General Suleiman Kazaure was appointed director general of the NYSC on 18 April 2016, and served as the 17th DG of the scheme until his redeployment to the Nigerian Army Resource Centre on 26 April 2019.

    NYSC was created on 22 May 1973 as an avenue for the reconciliation, reconstruction, and rebuilding of the nation after the civil war. It was established based on decree No. 24 which stated that the scheme was created “with a view to the proper encouragement and development of common ties among the youths of Nigeria and the promotion of national unity”

  • 2023: NYSC sends strong warning to corps members

    2023: NYSC sends strong warning to corps members

    The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has warned corps members willing to participate in the 2023 general elections to be neutral and apolitical.

    Mrs Christy Uba, the Acting Director General of NYSC, said this while addressing corps members at the Mbaukwu/Umuawulu Permanent Orientation camp, Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra on Saturday.

    Uba witnessed the cultural carnival of the scheme organised for members of 2023 Batch C in Anambra.

    The Ag DG said election duty was voluntary for corps members and those who wished to take part must eschew all forms of malpractice that could undermine the integrity of the poll or reputation of the scheme.

    She said the NYSC would not hesitate to surrender any corps member with a proven case of electoral malfeasance to the state to face the laws of the land.

    “If you are to participate in the 2023 election, please not that it is an ad hoc assignment, you must be neutral and apolitical.

    “Do not participate in a wrong manner, you are not a politician as corps members, you may be in future but for now, you are corps members.

    “If you run foul of any electoral law, you are going to prison, NYSC can not cover you up, once they come for you stating that you ran foul of the law, we will surrender you to the state.

    “Participation in election is voluntary, it is optional, you gave a choice to make but if you have decided to participate, make sure you take part in all the trainings and sensitisation so that you can understand your role and boundaries,” she said.

    Uba commended the corps members for their good behaviour in camp while charging them to go to their places of primary assignment and contribute to national development through service to communities.

    She thanked the Anambra Government for building a good orientation camp for the scheme and urged other states in the country which were yet to build a permanent camp to do so.

    The Ag DG advised the corps members to imbibe all the training they were getting in camp and invest in post camp entrepreneurial skill acquisition, to help them master their various trades and be job creators.

    Mrs Ekene Iruma, the Coordinator of NYSC, said the cultural carnival was part of the programmes of the scheme aimed at encouraging cultural interaction among youths.

    Iruma said the corps in camp, including those posted to Delta State, adapted the cultures well as seen in their performance, adding that such understanding would help them live harmoniously with their host communities.

    Mr Patrick Aghamba, Commissioner for Youth, congratulated the corps members for their posting to Anambra while assuring them that the state was safe.