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A National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Francis Moses Ashiki, has died in a fatal car accident on the day of his Passing-Out-Parade (POP) from the 1-year mandatory programme. The 2022 Batch A Stream One National Youth Service Corps member popularly known as Ryder died in the motor accident that occurred on Thursday, February 2, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has reacted after corps members were filmed engaging in a sexually-charged dance at an orientation camp. In the video, a female corps members is seen lying on a table while a male colleague grinds his crotch against hers. Another shows a female corps member bending her back to a […]
Continue ReadingNYSC In January, 2017, I wrote a piece titled “Has NYSC Run Its Course?”. It was about the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme which was established by the NYSC Decree No. 24 of May 22, 1973 during the regime of General Yakubu Gowon, as a one year programme for fresh University graduates “to promote […]
Continue ReadingIt is not often that cases before a court of law become so important that they get discussed in beer parlours, open places, other rooms and generate so much public attention beyond the court room, even after judgment has been delivered by a court of competent jurisdiction. But it happens, presenting, relative to context, the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s House of Representatives is considering discontinuation of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Alteration Bill, 2020, which is seeking to repeal the NYSC Act, is billed for the second reading. In the explanatory memorandum of the proposal, the sponsor, Mr. Awaji-Inombek Abiante, listed the various […]
Continue ReadingMy NYSC year remains my most fun year ever. Maybe because I’m just a lazy girl but 1988/89 was the year I worked the least number of hours in my life. It was the year I had no lecturer’s deadline to meet. It was also, above all, the year I didn’t have to worry about […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s NYSC has dismissed the claim by the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shitu, that holding political office compensated for his refusal to participate in the compulsory national service. The spokesperson of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Adenike Adeyemi, said the minister’s claim that holding an elective office suffices for the obligatory national service is […]
Continue ReadingNigerian govt, Monday, said it hopes the certificate forgery scandal involving the finance minister, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, would soon be proven as false, claiming that investigations are still on after more than 60 days the story was broken. It nevertheless said the government would take the appropriate action immediately details of the investigations are made […]
Continue ReadingWhen South Korea crashed out of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia at the first round in June this year, the sight of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club of England star striker, Heung-Min Son in tears told a pitiful story. But many informed football followers knew why the young man was crying. By South Korean […]
Continue ReadingThe Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brigadier-General Sule Kazaure and the NYSC has been sued by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) over failure to publish specific documents and information on Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun’s application for NYSC exemption, and also seeking to compel them to explain if Adeosun obtained any […]
Continue ReadingChairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay responded to calls by Nigerians for the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, to respond to the allegations that she forged her NYSC discharge certificate. According to Sagay, Adeosun’s expertise is very important to this administration and that she cannot be allowed to go just […]
Continue ReadingPresidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) Chairman, Prof. Itse Sagay SAN, has described the controversy about the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate of Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, as unneeded. The PACAC chairman maintained that President Muhammadu Buhari cannot afford to sack Adeosun because the minister, according to him, is “brilliant”. Sagay stated this […]
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