LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has warned the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) to postpone the Batch A 2020 orientation camp. The Islamic group based its call on the coronavirus outbreak and appealed to the authorities to be on the safe side. MURIC Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, in a statement on Wednesday,…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected kidnappers on Monday night abducted four Rufus Giwa Polytechnic graduates on their way to Zamfara State for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Orientation Camp, it was learnt yesterday. The victims made up of three male and a female were kidnapped around Funtua in Katsina State at about 11:30pm by armed…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has dismissed rumours circulating in some social media outfits that it had postponed the 2020 Batch “A” orientation programme, reportedly over Coronavirus scare. Mrs. Adenike Adeyemi, Director, Press and Public Relations of the scheme, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, dismissed the claims as “misleading”….
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yenagoa, Bayelsa State boiled on Monday as a policeman reportedly shot dead three people. Those shot dead are a commercial driver and two of his passengers. The dastard act has led to riot in the state’s capital. According to reports, the policeman guarding a new generation bank at the Ekeki axis of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-In its efforts to sanitise Nigerian tertiary institutions across the country, the executive secretary of the National University Commission (NUC), Prof Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, said about 100 fake professors have been uncovered by the commission. Sun reports that Prof Rasheed said that about 100 fake professors’ details were posted on the NUC…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A young man, identified as Obotti Zion E., who was undergoing his one year National Youth Service Corps in Ebonyi State, has slumped and died at Peace Mass Transit park, Abakaliki. He reportedly slumped and died on Wednesday, October 2, 2019, in the motor park, located along Afikpo Road, Abakaliki, the state…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Immediate past Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has said that the decision by his government to build a Permanent Orientation Camp in Anambra State for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) at Mbaukwu/Umuawulu was borne out of need, since the current site at Umunya was owned by the Anglican…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd) on Wednesday called for the expansion of National Youth Service Corps scheme beyond the shores of Nigeria. He said the time has come for the NYSC programme to be expanded to other African Union countries. Gowon made the all in an address delivered on…