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NYSC corpers now required to present fitness certificates from recognised public health facilities at orientation camps

The National Youth Service Corps has announced that prospective corps members would be required to produce fitness certificates from recognized public health facilities during orientation camps nationwide. Eddy Megwa, Director,…

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Youth Corps members come Alive for 5Alive

One certain thing about the new 5Alive variants is that both are consumers’ favourite and this was clearly demonstrated when Coca-Cola stormed the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Camp in…

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Opinion: 5 popular myths about NYSC camp

by Chris Izuchukwu Okafor You’ve probably read a lot of thrills and feels, exclusively online, about the NYSC orientation camp- Except, of course, you exclusively do only WhatsApp data plans,…

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Who NYSC epp?

  Corper Shun! The first time I heard those two words, I really wanted to know what they meant. I was nine, and hungry; hungry to know things my peers…

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The Thread: The upsides and downsides of NYSC posting

Call-up letters for the Batch A stream of Youth corpers have been released and are a cause for much rejoicing, yea? Depends on how much you loathe the National Youth Service…

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How to survive the 3-week NYSC orientation camp

by Itunuoluwa Adebo So the Batch A NYSC call-up letters are out!. You're probably feeling a weird mix of excitement, anxiety, annoyance and for some undiluted sadness. Whichever state you've…

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Just In: Late Ifedolapo Oladepo had untreated kidney infection – NYSC

A report conducted by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on the death of Ifedolapo Oladepo, a corps member of the 2016 Batch ‘B’, who died at the National Youth…

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#NYSCAbuse: Time to bid farewell to NYSC death camps

by Usman Alabi True to the NYSC anthem, it was the clarion call they answered to, it was not convenient for them in any way to travel from the south…

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T.J Benson: Donga [Nigerian Voices]

Nobody stays in at night. In Donga at night time you are either young and wild or old and dying. At night bankers, teachers, local politicians and business men keep…

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Francis Nwafor: Victory story [Nigerian Voices]

It was 12:55am and I was just about going to bed after finishing the proposal my boss asked me to write when I heard loud continuous bangs on the gate…

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Why ‘corpers’ now have to pay N4,000 to get call-up letters – NYSC

by Isi Esene The National Youth Service Corps has defended its newly introduced policy which requires prospective corps members to pay N4,000 before accessing their call up letters online. The…

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NYSC has launched an app for corpers (LOOK, DETAILS)

by Kolapo Olapoju The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has launched an app for youth corps members. According to Director General of the scheme, Brigadier General Johnson…

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NYSC members almost stripped as Anambra community bans trousers for women

by 'Jola Sotubo A group of surprised female members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) were almost stripped in an Anambra community which is said to have enacted a…

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‘Blood will flow…’: Cultists issue death threats to youth ‘corpers’ in Kogi (See Photos)

by Oge Okonkwo The compulsory one year youth corp program which all school leavers under the age of 30 must undergo might just be a nightmare for some 'corpers' serving…

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Okey Ikechukwu: Those who call 1914 a mistake are mixing things up badly

by Okey Ikechukwu No one cried foul over Awo’s politics in the South West before he engineered Zik’s ouster using ethnic solidarity. Before then he was aware of himself as…

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BUSTED: 8 fake youth ‘corpers’ arrested and sent to prison

by Oge Okonkwo File photo The law finally caught up with eight persons who were reportedly posing as members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), after they were arrested, charged…

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Terrible: Jealous boyfriend set 2 female ‘corpers’ ablaze in Rivers

by Oge Okonkwo Two female National Youth Service Corps members, Amarachi Okey Winifred, a Batch C corps member and her friend, a fresh batch B corps member who recently left camp, were recently burnt beyond…

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Police intensify search for kidnapped NYSC corps members

by Rachel Ogbu Police are still searing for the three corps members who were abducted from their lodge in Ogonokom, Abua/Odual Local Government Area on June 29, 2013. Corps members…

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How kidnappers invaded our lodge like commandos and abducted our colleagues – Corps member

Before now, Abual/Odua Local Government Area of Rivers State was hardly in the news. The area has of recent been in the limelight for the wrong reason; the raiding of…

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4 NYSC members die in Cross River

by Isi Esene Nkereke Ibangha, the Cross River State coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has disclosed that four members of the 2011 Batch 'C' set died during…

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Extortion: NYSC DG accuses inspectors of “unwholesome practices”

by Akan Ido The director general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC),  Brig-Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia yesterday blamed the perceived lack of discipline among corps members on inspectors of the…

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At last: NYSC bows to Reps, to re-post ‘corpers’ sent to troubled states

by Hauwa Gambo The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has given in and and will now be re-posting those 14, 850 corps members sent to volatile Northern states. According to…

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At last: NYSC bows to Reps, to repost ‘corpers’ sent to troubled states

by Hauwa Gambo The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has given in and and will now be re-posting those 14, 850 corps members sent to volatile Northern states. According to…

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Stop fretting, you guys are safe – FG tells corps members

by Hauwa Gambo Worried that you might not be safe in any of those volatile states where bombs have been going off, people have been dying in their homes, churches…

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“No service in Boko Haram states”: Lagos NYSC members protest

Apparently, the last has not been heard of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) saga. The Batch B NYSC members took their protest to the Lagos State House of Assembly…

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No dying for Nigeria? Corps members refuse to go North

by Tolu Orekoya The rise in violence in Nigerian northern states have sent non-residents fleeing from the region, as bombings by terrorist group Boko Haram and reprisal attacks flourish. The National Youth…

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Respite Cometh! Minister of youth says ‘corpers’ will be paid this week

by Hauwa Gambo The Minister of Youth, Bolaji Abdullahi, who arrived the country from an official assignment abroad yesterday has blamed the delay in paying the allowances of corps members…

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#OccupyNYSC: No pay? It’s not just corpers says NYSC Deputy Director of Public Relations

by Tolu Orekoya @segzee01: FG pay us our allowee and scrap dis none sense NYSC #OccupyNYSC Pay Us our allowee #OccupyNYSC @rmajayi: I can't understand why #Nigerians think uni. graduates should spend a year cleaning toilets,…

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#DiaryOfAnOtondo: “All we are saying…!”

by Yomi Kazeem   It doesn’t feel out of place to clear my throat and begin this entry with an old Pete Edochie-like proverb, after all, I'm in Abia State.…

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