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#NYSCAbuse: Senate demands overhaul of scheme

Following the deaths of some corps members in various camps, the Senate on Thursday called on the Federal Government to overhaul the National Youth Service Corps Scheme. The motion was moved as a mater of urgent public importance by the Chief Whip of the Senate, Olusola Adeyeye (APC Osun Central), as the Senate also demanded that... Read More

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#NYSCAbuse: Late Ifedolapo Oladepo’s body may be ‘exhumed’ for autopsy – FG

Following the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari that an independent investigation be carried out as to the cause of death of a youth corps member, Ifedolapo Oladepo, who died recently at the Kano State NYSC Orientation Camp, her corpse may be exhumed to carry out an autopsy. According to Daily Trust the Minister of Youths and Sports,... Read More

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Is President Buhari a joker? Condoling with families of dead corps members after a week…

But this man though… Three young corps members in the same age range as President Buhari’s children die in the space of one week in very avoidable circumstances (and we can’t say this enough), but the president in his “almightiness” surfaces over one week later to commiserate with the families of the dead ones. How... Read More

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Buhari orders independent probe into death of corps member

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an independent investigation into the death of Ifedolapo Oladepo, a Batch B corps member who died at the Kano NYSC Orientation camp. The order was in a statement by his Special Adviser to the President in Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina. The President was also quoted to have commiserated with... Read More

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December 7, 2016

The Late 5: These are the stories that drove conversation today

These are the top five stories that drove conversation today. 1. #NYSCAbuse: Buhari, after nearly a week, is finally saddened by their deaths President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an independent investigation into the death of Ifedolapo Oladepo, a corps member who died in controversial manner at the NYSC camp in Kano. 2. ‘Zahra Buhari to get married... Read More

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December 7, 2016

#NYSCAbuse: Buhari, after nearly a week, is finally saddened by their deaths

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an independent investigation into the death of a corps member, Ifedolapo Oladepo who died in the Kano camp of the National Youth Service Corps. Expressing his condolence on the death of three corp members, Buhari who reacted via his Twitter account on Wednesday urged the NYSC to do all it can to ensure... Read More

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December 7, 2016

#NYSCAbuse: Some of the ridiculous things they make corps members do

The news today is that corps members in Rivers State have refused to sign up for the re-run elections coming up on Saturday, the 10th of December. An extremely smart move considering the fact that almost all stakeholders in said elections have shown readiness for varying degrees of violence. Add to that the National Youth Service... Read More

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Timeline: NYSC has endangered more lives than you know #NYSCAbuse

The recent deaths of corps members in three separate orientation camps across the country have sparked anger, unending debates and renewed calls for a total scrap of the scheme. With the intense conversations on social media, you’d think these occurrences are never-before-seen and the ensuing reactions come from a place of shock. The National Youth Service... Read More

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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 Service Corps orientation camp in Kano, has revealed that she had an untreated kidney infection. According to The Punch the report was presented by Minister of Youth and... Read More

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#NYSCAbuse: Reps summon DG, demands prosecution of negligent personnel

Following outcry over the deaths of corps members in recent times, the House of Representatives has summoned the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Suileman Kazaure. Given details of decisions taken at plenary on Tuesday via his Twitter account, Speaker Yakubu Dogara said the House resolved that those involved in the... Read More

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Rivers rerun: Corps members decline to participate in exercise

Corps members in Rivers State are refusing to participate in the legislative rerun election scheduled to hold on Saturday, December 10, Punch reports. It was learnt that the corps members have refused to show interest due to fear of possible violence during the election. A source told Punch that the usual enthusiasm of corps members... Read More

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December 5, 2016

YNaija Editorial: The case against the NYSC

Societies must regularly examine their practices and determine if those practices should be continued, modified or scrapped. Many of these practices are a product of the times in which they were established, and may have become obsolete. One example is the monthly environmental sanitation that has been in existence for decades. Every last Saturday of... Read More

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No space in the APC for Fayose, el-Rufai “the bespectacled pygmy” | Here are last week’s winners and losers

Hardly can any week pass without an episode of political drama in Nigeria. This time, we had the usual cast, Governor Ayo Fayose denouncing the PDP in parables and suggesting he would join another party come 2018. Also, the mighty men of Kaduna, Senator Shehu Sani and Governor Nasir el-Rufai, who have been at loggerheads since... Read More

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#NYSCAbuse: This is what justice will mean for Ifedolapo’s family

Imagine the anxiety of Oyeyode Abimbola Inioluwa, who sent her child off to NYSC camp in faraway Kano with best wishes and prayers. Imagine her panic at receiving her a distress call from her daughter, saying she was sick. Once. Twice. Three times. Her worst fears confirmed. Imagine her pleading with the authorities to do... Read More

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#NYSCAbuse: It is time for President Buhari to answer the NYSC question

The current wave of discontent against the NYSC began in the aftermath of the 2011 elections, when Buhari was on the losing side for the third time. As a result of the post-election violence in several Northern states, at least 800 people died per Human Rights Watch. Some of the dead were members of the... Read More

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#NYSCAbuse: Here are all the ways NYSC makes life a living hell for graduates

As it is, there is an embargo placed on gainful employment in 90 per cent of the organizations in the country – you don’t serve, you don’t get a job unless you have taken part in the scheme. Yet. NYSC is a menace, a nightmare and frankly, adds no value to anyone’s lives in the... Read More

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Introducing the YNaija tracker on justice for #NYSCAbuse victims

Today, we begin an official countdown to justice for every corp member who has died as a result of the negligent, lackadaisical and absolutely unacceptable approach of the NYSC agency to the welfare of corpers. This is not only for Ifedolapo Oladepo, the Transport Management graduate who died at the Kano state orientation camp last... Read More

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The Thread: #NYSCAbuse | How long will we let this go unchallenged?

The death of three Batch B NYSC corp members have been recorded. They are Udeme Monday, ElechiChiyerom and Ifedolapo Oladepo. The mother of one of Ifedolapo gave us some insight into her daughter’s final hours, and it’s certain that no parent will want that for their child. Heck, no parent will want to bury their... Read More

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Death of three corps members will be probed – NYSC DG

The National Youth Services Corps (NYSC) has said it would investigate the death of three corps members in separate NYSC orientation camps in the country. The NYSC in a statement issued by its Director-General, Brig. General, Suleiman Kazaure, in Abuja said it has set up a committee to thoroughly investigate the deaths of Chinyerum Nwenenda... Read More

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Ifedolapo’s mum vs NYSC: Until investigations are concluded, we choose to believe her mother

Ifedolapo Oladepo is the first-class graduate of Transport Management from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Osogbo, who left the comfort of her home and family to fulfil the mandatory one-year youth service corps programme. She was posted to Kano and we do not know how the news of that must have felt but she made... Read More

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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 of the country to the north – especially in the case of Udeme Sunday and Ifedolapo Oladepo. But the question we should all answers is... Read More

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The Thread: #NYSCAbuse | Negligence has a costly price

Oladepo Ifedolapo, a First Class graduate of Transport Management, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, is dead and now buried. She was buried in Osogbo, Osun on Thursday. She died in Kano camp, after NYSC neglected to handle her health complaints with despatch. Ukeme Monday, a First-Class graduate of Petroleum Engineering, died in NYSC Zamfara camp, and... Read More

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The Thread: #NYSCAbuse

This story makes our hearts bleed. The callousness of NYSC officials can no longer be swept under the carpet. Ifedolapo Oladepo died at the hands of NYSC officials because they refused to take her illness seriously, insisting instead that she was faking it to get out of the compulsory parade. It is our decided opinion that... Read More

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SPECIAL EDITORIAL: The NYSC must pay for this wickedness

It is rare to see one story capture so much of what is wrong with Nigeria. A young girl, far from home in an NYSC camp in the North, falls ill. She is assumed to be faking illness to dodge parade, and then is wrongly diagnosed and treated. By the time her mother can get... Read More

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Late Kano corps member received treatment at a govt hospital – NYSC

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Friday said Ifedolapo Oladepo, who reportedly died at the Kano NYSC camp was taken to a government hospital. There had been reports that the First Class graduate of Transport Management from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Osogbo was denied medical service. But the Kano Coordinator of NYSC, Abdullahi... Read More