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YNaija November 2, 2022

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,…

Itunuoluwa May 18, 2017

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…

Azeez April 4, 2017

NYSC to reopen Maiduguri orientation camp

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Tuesday said it will soon re-open its orientation camp in Maiduguri. Director-General of NYSC, Suleiman Kazaure said this while speaking with journalists in Maiduguri.…

Isime Esene December 13, 2016

YNaija Analysis: Like Jonathan, Buhari has become a very dangerous president

In the months prior to the 2015 general elections, the wind of ‘change’ swept through Nigeria. Almost everyone was excited at the prospect of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (as he then…

Tolu December 8, 2016

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…

Tolu December 4, 2016

#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…

Op-ed Editor December 3, 2016

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…

Isime Esene December 3, 2016

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…

Isime Esene December 3, 2016

#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…

Oludolapo Adelana December 2, 2016

Mother narrates final moments of her daughter who died in Kano NYSC camp due to negligence

The mother of a Batch B corps member who died at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in Kano, has given details of happenings that led to her…

Oreoluwa Peters July 7, 2016

NYSC member shares orientation camp experience – A corper’s tale

by Olabode Emmanuel Olawumi Camp was fun. Although, I didn't love every part of it. There was the good, the bad and the ugly. Let me tell you about the…

Dele Benjamin June 6, 2016

Just In: NYSC orientation course starts Monday

The management of the National Youth Service Corps has announced that the 2016 Batch A Stream II Orientation course will begin on Monday, June 13. The NYSC said late on…

Ada Igboanugo May 17, 2016

NYSC has ‘no money’ to mobilise corps members to camps

Thousands of prospective corps members gearing to begin their 3-week orientation camp on Friday,‎ May 20, will have to wait a little longer. Reason being that the National Youth Service Corp…

Op-Ed Editor September 12, 2014

Tunde Leye: NYSC and the O.Y.O indoctrination of youths

by Tunde Leye So you are a Nigerian Corper. What this means is that you have Nigerian citizenship and have gone through a university or college as the Americans who…

Kolapo Olapoju September 2, 2014

Kolapo Olapoju: Memoir of a long distance relationship {Episode 2} (30 Days, 30 Voices)

by Kolapo Olapoju She stared at me with those big brown eyes, in a seductive manner that could only mean one thing, and my brain registered her yearning. She…

Kolapo Olapoju August 11, 2014

‘Corpers’ in Bayelsa have been ordered to pack sh_t (READ)

by Kolapo Olapoju On Sunday, 10 August, some youth corp members at Kaiama camp, Bayelsa State, claimed that they were ordered to pack faeces (human waste), in the absence of…

March 17, 2013

Corpers fear for their safety as snake finds way into hostel (SNAPSHOT)

by Isi Esene Members of the National Youth Service Corps undertaking their orientation exercise at the Ondo state camp now live in fear for their safety as a black snake…

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