LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A serving National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member has reportedly stabbed his 53-year-old father, Adimike Godwin, to death in Abuja. The tragic incident reportedly occurred on Friday night at the victim’s residence within an estate in the Guzape area of Abuja. Available information indicated that the suspect returned from a nightclub…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Government of Taraba State has announced its decision to pay a one-time N50,000 medical allowance, a N25,000 accommodation allowance per term, and a monthly N10,000 to members of the National Youth Service Corps in the state. The Taraba State Commissioner for Information and Reorientation, Zainab Usman, disclosed this development in a…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has barred unvaccinated corps members from its camps nationwide. NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, said from the next Orientation Exercise in the year 2022, all the incoming PCMs will show evidence of vaccination before they would be allowed into the camp for registration. He disclosed…
LAGOS MAY 25TH NEWSRANGERS)-The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Alteration Bill, 2020, which is seeking to repeal the National Youth Service Corps scheme (NYSC) Act, is billed for the second reading at the House of Representatives. The sponsor, Mr Awaji-Inombek Abiante, in the explanatory memorandum of the proposal, listed the various reasons why…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday said 138 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) had so far tested positive to COVID-19. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director General, NCDC, said this at the national briefing on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja. Mr Ihekweazu said none of those who tested positive…
LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has approved the reopening of all camps where the National Youth Service Corps orientation exercises hold on November 10. The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, made this known in a tweet on Thursday. He tweeted, “The Resumption of the NYSC Orientation Camp for prospective Youth Corpers…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said its orientation camps will reopen when it is very safe, in view of the formidable danger posed by COVID-19 pandemic. Director of Press and Public Relations of the scheme, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, made this known in a statement yesterday in Abuja. ”The attention of…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has commenced its online registration for prospective corps members. The registration is for Batch A orientation course. A check on NYSC’s official portal by DAILY POST showed that the registration process will run till 29 of June, 2020. However, the scheme also warned prospective corps members…