Tag: Youth service

#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…

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N4,000 call-up fee is optional – NYSC DG tells Reps

by Isi Esene Brig. Gen. Johnson Olawumi, the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps has told the House of Representatives that the N4,000 fee levied on 'corpers' for…

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6 NYSC members to repeat service in Abia

by Akan Ido Six of the 2,272 'Batch B' 2013 corps members in Abia will have extended service year after absconding from duty. This was disclosed by Badmus Adegbenga, the…

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Photo of the Day: Is this where all the NYSC camp khaki trousers went?

by Akan Ido This is just for laughs, we don't imagine there's a shortage of khaki trousers in the NYSC camp but if there's any, then it's safe to say…

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Fake ‘youth corper’ caught in Lagos, to serve in prison (PICTURED)

Opeyemi Ajala, 34, a fake National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member has been arrested by the police at Dolphin Division, Ikoyi, Lagos and charged to court. The suspect allegedly told the police…

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Oladolapo Bello: My NYSC orientation camp experience in Sokopa (30 Days, 30 Voices)

From Abuja to Sokoto, there was a sudden change in landscape. The brick-houses began disappearing with scanty mud houses replacing them. The mud houses started disappearing too. Now there were haystacks at intervals,…

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Opinion: Serving your nation in tears and pain

by Akin Ogungbe   Why should ordinary registration of a foreign student for the NYSC scheme be made so expensive and cumbersome? Why should all foreign students go to Abuja…

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