Out of 2,400 members of the National Youth Service Corps in the Batch A posted to Kano State for the 2012/2013 service year, about 900 of them have been redeployed to other states due to the current security challenge in the commercial city. According to a report monitored on Channels TV on Tuesday, the state [...]
A youth corps member, Lilian Ogboona, 29, was on Friday arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ court in Lagos on charges of soliciting, prostitution and malicious damage to property. Ogboona, a Batch B corps member who resides at No. 58, Oniru Estate, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of soliciting for prostitution and [...]
FOUR female corps members abducted at the Iriebe corps members’ lodge in Oyibo Local Council of Rivers State were Sunday rescued by the police. The Guardian learnt that a gang of about seven armed bandits gained entrance into the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) transit camp at Iriebe through the fallen part of the fence. [...]
Due to the general poor state of facilities at the NYSC FCT Orientation camp in Kubwa, some of the Batch ‘C’ corps members have resorted to using the near-by bush as toilets. The FCT NYSC Coordinator, Mr Frank Ekpunobi, who had made several appeals for the rehabilitation of the camp, said that it required urgent [...]
One of the greatest challenges facing almost if not all the 774 local government areas in Nigeria is the generally perceived, known and alleged illegal deduction of funds of council areas by state governors. The deduction which is easily and allegedly facilitated by the present constitutional joint account maintained by State governments and their local [...]
Mr. Dan Tenshak, the Chief Executive Officer of the Yakubu Gowon foundation, has made it known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos on Thursday, that the Yakubu Gowon Foundation (YGF) is organizing its 2012 national essay competition for serving National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members. The essay competition, which was part of [...]
About 100 corps members serving in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have undergone training in entrepreneurship skills. Speaking at the opening of the programme, special adviser to the president on special duties and social development, Mrs Sarah Pane, represented by Mr Sylvanus Danlele, said her office was committed to the empowerment of youths so that [...]
Gunmen, yesterday,in Jalingo, Taraba State, attacked members of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, at the Family House of the Redeemed Christian Corps Fellowship, RCCF, behind Federal Government Girls College, FGGC, dispossessing them of money and other valuables. It was gathered that the bandits held the corp members hostage for several hours after robbing them. The [...]
Corps members numbering about 500 converged on the FCT Orientation Camp, Kubwa, Abuja, Wednesday, seeking redeployment. The corps members could not be deployed in the states where they underwent orientation. The highest number came from Kaduna, Kano, Maiduguri and Bauchi states. The Director of Corps Mobilisation at the NYSC Headquarters, Mrs Mercy Kolajo and other [...]
A total of 1,277 of the 2,150 corps members posted to Kano State for the 2012 ‘Batch B service year have so far sought for redeployment to other states. The state NYSC Coordinator, Alhaji Bashir Yakasai, disclosed this in an interview in Kano on Monday. He said that of those, who sought redeployment, 1,108 were [...]
OSUN State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has jerked up the monthly allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) posted to the state from N3,500 to N5,000. Meanwhile, no fewer than 22 rural electrification projects allegedly abandoned in various communities by the immediate past administration have been completed and awaiting commissioning in Osun State. [...]
Nothing incredible is accomplished alone. You need others to help you, and you need to help others. With the right team, you can form a web of connections to make the seemingly impossible practically inevitable. 1. The Instigator: Someone who pushes you, who makes you think. Who motivates you to get up and go, and [...]
Prominent Nigerians and groups, including the Trade Union Congress, on Thursday criticised the Minister of Youth Development, Alhaji Inuwa Abdulkadir, for insisting that National Youth Service Corps members must be posted to states under attack by Boko Haram. The President-General of the TUC, Mr. Peter Esele, described the minister’s statement as shocking and irresponsible. He [...]
Alhaji Salisu Taura, the Sokoto State Coordinator of the NYSC, said on Wednesday that sufficient security personnel had been deployed to ensure the safety of corps members at the Sokoto orientation camp. Taura told journalists in Sokoto that additional measures had also been taken to effectively provide security services at the camp. He said that [...]
The Bauchi State Government has debunked the rumours making the rounds in the country that 50 corp members were killed in a bomb attack at the NYSC Wailo camp in Bauchi state. The Commissioner of Information, Mohammed Daminna, who debunked the rumour while briefing newsmen Wednesday in Bauchi, described the information as false and the [...]
A female corps member from Edo State, Shemahu Momodu, has been delivered of a baby girl on the first day of registration at Katsina State orientation camp. The state NYSC coordinator, Mr Ebenezer Afolalu, who disclosed this at the swearing-in ceremony of the 2012 batch “B” corps members, on Wednesday, said the corps member gave [...]
Bowing to pressure from graduates, their parents and other organizations, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is to redeploy prospective corps members who have been posted to “volatile states” in Northern Nigeria. Several stakeholders, including the House of Representatives and some state Houses of assembly, have been voicing their opposition to the posting of graduates [...]
The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has alerted that Ndigbo have lost over 200 of their own in the last two months in Kano and Kaduna states alone to attacks by the Islamist sect, Boko Haram. MASSOB leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike told Daily Sun in Owerri, the Imo State capital [...]
Last month across the country the Batch B of 2011 corp members passed out from the scheme. As is now custom many issues are being raised as to how the country can absorb the thousands of graduates that now join the further hundreds of thousands in the country’s near saturated job market. In the midst [...]
Ever since the iconic Fela Kuti used the phrase ‘suffering and smiling to describe a people so used to difficult living that they joke and smile about it Nigerians continue to show that the late Afrobeat star was on point. The mediocrity pervading the land did not leave out the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) [...]
Why do students these days find it very difficult to scale both University Matriculation Exams (UME) and the Post UME screening tests administered by the various higher institutions in the country? Is it that, students no longer read lengthenly anymore or unseriousness has crept in? NO.! The reasons are not far fetched, as I feel [...]
If you are reading this and you are past your first or second year as the case may be then you may be only able to use these tips to enhance your grades and not a first class. Getting a first class starts from your first year in the university, in fact your first test [...]
Nigerian writer, Rotimi Babatunde, is among the five shortlisted for the 2012 prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing. This was contained in a released signed by Vice President of the Caine Prize, Ben Okri. Babatunde made the shortlist with his entry, Bombay’s Republic published in Mirabilia Review Vol. 3.9. Other writers shortlisted for the literary [...]
We all have experienced hard times regarding our finances, but there are some certain tips that can help you overcome these challenges. Some of which are: 1. Assess your financial situation. Get a small notebook and write down your income and your expenses for the whole month. Your expenses could include utility bills, grocery, gas [...]
Positive thinking is a mental attitude that admits into the mind thoughts, words and images that are conductive to growth, expansion and success. It is a mental attitude that expects good and favorable results. A positive mind anticipates happiness, joy, health and a successful result. Whatever the mind expects, it finds. Not everyone accepts or [...]
