Tag: NYSC
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95% of NYSC members die due to road accident – DG
The National Youth Service Corp says 95 per cent of deaths recorded by serving Corps members is due to road accidents. Brig. Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, the Director General of NYSC, said this while addressing corps members observing their orientation camp course in Katsina on Monday. “Several serving corps members have been embarking on unnecessary journeys…
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Panic as nine NYSC members drown in Taraba river
Nine corps members serving in Gashaka local government area of Taraba state drowned at a river while on picnic in Taraba State. Police said seven bodies were recovered Sunday, 24 hours after the accident. Two more were yet to be recovered. Gashaka is near the Mambilla Plateau. It was leaent that the sudden increase in…
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NYSC: DG cautions corps members over frequent travels
Worried by the rate insurgency in the country, the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Suleiman Kazaure, has charged corps members across the country to be security conscious and to avoid unnecessary travels and reckless movements during their service year. Where travels and movements become necessary and inevitable, the NYSC boss…
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NYSC DG speaks on possibility of increased allowance for corps members
The Federal Government has begun an upward review of the N19, 800 monthly allowance paid to members of the National Youth Service Corps, according to the Director-General of the scheme, Brig Gen Suleiman Kazaure. The DG stated this on Thursday, noting that the NYSC, through the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, received a letter…
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SERAP issues NYSC seven days ultimatum to provide documents on Adeosun’s certificate
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information request to Sule Kazaure, Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) asking him to “urgently provide information on specific details and documents on the Exemption Certificate granted to the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun”. The organisation also asked Mr Kazaure…
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Health care: Edo, NYSC strengthen ties
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the state government would strengthen existing partnership with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in the state to drive his administration’s reforms in education and health sectors to benefit people living in rural areas of the state. Obaseki disclosed this when he received the new state…
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NYSC Certificate Scandal: Why we are yet to arrest Adeosun —Police
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has explained why it is yet to apprehend nor investigate the embattled Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, over an allegation of possession of forged exemption certificate of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Recall that an online news outlet Premium Times recently exposed that the minister forged her exemption…
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[JUST IN] NYSC certificate scandal: Adeosun meets Buhari in Aso Rock
The embattled Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, is currently in a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. Recall that Adeosun has been in the eye of the storm after a report by Premium Times that she submitted a fake NYSC exemption certificate for screening as a ministerial nominee. The…
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No salary for civil servants as FAAC suspends meetings indefinitely
Many of the 36 states of the federation will not be able to pay salary of civil servants for June and July following the suspension of meetings indefinitely by the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC). The Chairman, Commissioners of Finance Forum, Mr Mahmood Yunusa on Thursday said FAAC has agreed to suspend meetings indefinitely until…
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Adeosun’s exemption certificate fake, not issued by NYSC – Ex-mobilisation director
A former Director of Mobilisation at the National Youth Service Corps, Anthony Ani, says the certificate of exemption purportedly issued by the NYSC to the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, is fake. Ani said this during an interview on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Wednesday. He said, “The NYSC cannot issue that…