LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has warned corps members against lobbying to be relocated out of the states they are deployed for their one-year national service. The Director of Corps Mobilization at the NYSC Directorate Headquarters in Abuja, Mrs Nnenna Ukonu, gave the advice on Thursday while addressing corps members undergoing…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, on Friday, vowed to dismiss corps members caught smoking Indian hemp The D-G made this known during the Batch B Stream 2 corps members undergoing orientation at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Sagamu, Ogun State. “You can imagine how much your…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja assented to Engineers (Registration etc) Amendment Bill, 2019, which among others, bars the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) from henceforth, posting graduates of engineering to secondary schools to teach. The bill which has now become the Act of the National Assembly seeks to promote technological development in…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four staff members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), a member of the NYSC and a three-year-old girl on Saturday died in an accident along Ajaokuta–Lokoja Road. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the victims were returning in the evening from Ayingba, Kogi, where they attended the wedding ceremony…
LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Buhari is reportedly expecting the resignation of Minister of President Buhari is reportedly expecting the resignation of Minister of Communications, Alhaji Adebayo Shittu, who failed to participate in the NYSC scheme after his graduation from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Osun State. According to Punch’s sources, Adebayo Shittu…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The minister of communications, Adebayo Shittu, says he can still partake in the one-year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. It was recently discovered that Shittu did not participate in the mandatory service after graduating from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU), despite finishing school below the required minimum…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Another minister serving in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet has been found to have skipped the mandatory national youth service scheme, an offence that may see him lose his position and earn him jail term. The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, failed to participate in the NYSC scheme despite graduating from the then…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mrs Kemi Adeosun has left the shores of Nigeria 24 hours after resigning as the Minister of Finance, and moments after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) warned that she may flee from arrest. According to emerging reports, Mrs Adeosun arrived the British capital of London on Saturday, after resigning her office over…