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    Metro NYSC Should Be Made Voluntary – Shehu Sani

    Sen. Shehu Sani (APC-Kaduna Central) has called on the Federal Government to make the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme voluntary or provide live insurance cover for NYSC members. Sani made the appeal while speaking to newsmen shortly after he condoled with the family of Lawal...
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    Metro Anxiety as NYSC Scheme Tops Google Trends

    Google says a rising anxiety on the National Youth Service Corps scheme is popular on Google search this week. Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager for Anglophone West Africa made the announcement in Lagos on Thursday. He said the search on NYSC was...
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    Metro No Plan to Slash Number of 2016 Batch B Intake- NYSC Reacts to Viral Reports

    The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has refuted reports that it has plans to slash the number of graduates mobilized for the 2016 batch B orientation course by 67 per cent. NYSC Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Abosede Aderibigbe, explained that stakeholders are still appraising the...
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    Politics House of Reps to Interfere in NYSC's Quota For Mobilisation

    The House of Representatives on Tuesday directed its Committee on Youth Development to look into the reduction of batches of students to be mobilised annually by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), noting that the development would cause hardship for graduated students. The NYSC had...
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    Metro NYSC Announces Date For 2016 Batch B Orientation Course

    The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has announced the date for the Orientation Course for prospective 2016 Batch B corps members. The date for the orientation programme, as announced by the NYSC on Tuesday, would run from 24th of November to 13th December. See NYSC mobilization...
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    Metro NYSC Orders Schools To Cut Graduates For Mobilization By 60 Percent

    The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Directorate Headquarters, Abuja, has slashed the number of prospective Corp members for the next phase of mobilization. The disclosure was made in a leaked internal memo dated 4th October, 2016 and sent to all heads of departments of the Nnamdi Azikiwe...
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    Metro NYSC Issues Important Statement on Corps Members' Allowance

    The National Youth Service Corps NYSC has addressed rumours claiming that corps members are to get a 25% pay cut. A statement issued by the scheme read, ''The Management of the NYSC hereby refutes the content of a mischievous information circulating in the social media to the effect that...
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    NYSC DIARY : Goodbye Lagos

    My Service year is over! . It felt really good dumping my Khaki and crested vest into the waste bin once i got home. It also felt good watching @Samguine almost cry when i dropped by the office to say 'goodbye'. It has been a beautiful year - i'm glad i was an Eko corper. This year has been...
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    Metro 8 Corps Members To Repeat Service in Kaduna

    Eight Corps members deployed to Kaduna State under the Batch B 2015 of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) are to repeat their service year in the state. The NYSC Coordinator in the state, Mohammed Momoh, made the disclosure in Kaduna on Thursday at the passing out of the 2, 837 members...
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    Metro NYSC: Biometric Verification of Youth Corpers Nationwide Begins Next Month

    The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has announced that the biometric verification of youth corpers will commence in October. NYSC Director-General Brigadier Sule Kazaure, said the exercise had been piloted in Lagos and Abuja and that it was a success. “In 2014, the scheme made the...
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    Metro NYSC Releases 2016 Batch B Mobilisation Timetable

    The management of the National Service Youth Corps (NYSC) has officially released the time table for the 2016 batch “B” mobilization exercise. The time-table published on the official website of NYSC reads: NYSC MOBILIZATION TIME TABLE FOR 2016 BATCH B. S/NO Event Date 1 Display of list of...
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    Metro NYSC is Broke, No Money To Mobilise, Buy Kits For Corps Members – Media Director

    The Director of media and publicity of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Bose Aderibigbe revealed that the NYSC is in dire need of funds and resources. Aderibigbe said N10, 500, budgeted by the government, is no longer sustainable to purchase a complete set of kits for each corp...
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    Metro NYSC : Important Notice For Prospective Batch B 2016 Corps Members

    The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has issued a statement concerning the date for the 2016 Batch ‘B’ orientation course for prospective members. Read statement below: Management wishes to inform all prospective corps members, parents, guardians and the general public, that no date has...
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    Metro Abuja: Corps Member Lands in Court Over Love Affair With Married Woman

    A member of the National Youth Service Corps, Bonaventure Okeke, has been arraigned in a Gudu Upper Area Court, Abuja for allegedly committing adultery. Okeke of Jahi 2 Market area of Abuja, was on Monday docked on a one-count charge of committing adultery with one Anozie Chinenye. The...
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    NYSC DIARY : Discovering Bend-Down Select

    I love markets, they always draw me in even when i have no money to spend. Last week, i went to two markets - Ajah market and another market around Jakande [not sure what name they call it]. I got nothing from the Ajah market but i made at least seven stops , touching wares and asking how much...
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    Business 10 Things Every Corps Member Should Know About the New CBN Loan

    The Central Bank of Nigeria yesterday announced that it has set aside N2.5bn for members of the National Youth Service Corps with good business ideas to actualise their dreams. The fund according to the apex bank will be distributed to corps members under the Youth Entrepreneurship...
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    Metro NYSC Reacts To Rumours Of Scrapping Scheme

    Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brig. Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, has debunked rumours making rounds that the one year national youth service scheme has been scrapped. Kazure disclosed this during a visit to the NYSC orientation camp in Mangu Local Government Area...
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    Metro NYSC Finally Releases Date For Batch A stream II Orientation Course

    The National Youth Service Corps has finally released date for the commencement of batch A stream 2 prospective Corp members orientation course. See it below.. BREAKING NEWS:2016 BATCH A (STREAM 11) ORIENTATION TO COMMENCE MONDAY. The Management of the National Youth Service Corps wishes to...
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    Metro Presidency Reacts to Rumors of Scrapping NYSC Alongside Post-UTME

    Presidential Spokesman, Shehu Garba, has reacted to rumors making the rounds that National Youth Service Corps, NYSC has been scrapped, along with post-UTME. Garba said the rumors were untrue. “NYSC is a creation of the law. Only another law can repeal it,” Shehu said. He didn't mention...
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    Politics READ What the Presidency said about the Scrapping of NYSC

    Coming on the heels of rumours making the rounds that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has been scrapped, the Presidency has come out to clear the air. Read what the Presidency said below.... "NYSC is a creation of the law. Only another law can repeal it." - Garba Shehu (Senior Special...
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