LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The medical corps members are worried about their lives due to the insecurity in the northern region where cases of Boko Haram, herdsmen and banditry violence have worsened in recent times. Authorities of the National Youth Service Corps ( NYSC) have denied applications for redeployment from the north tendered by some southern…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnappers along Lokoja-Abuja Highway have abducted members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on their way from Ede NYSC Orientation Camp, Osun State, Southwestern Nigeria. The number of abducted corps members could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report. Adenike Adeyemi, spokesperson of the NYSC could not…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has said that it has no intention to mobilize prospective corps members anytime soon, especially as the country is still grappling with the coronavirus pandemic. The Director-General of the Scheme, Brig. Gen. Ibrahim Shuaibu, who made this known in an interview with the Economic Confidential, said…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State Police Command, on Sunday, rescued six kidnap victims, including four corps members, who were abducted in the Emohua area of the East-West Road. A kidnap and armed robbery kingpin, identified as Zulu Ogwumike, aka Black Bush, was also killed during a shootout in a separate operation by the personnel…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Sale Zakari Kazaure has debunked rumours of increment in the monthly allowances of serving corps members across the country by the Federal Government. He said corps members are not different from civil servants, adding that whenever the minimum wage of civil…
LAGOS AUGUST 14H (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty-seven members of the National Youths Service Corps who had just concluded their one-year mandatory national service on Monday were involved in an auto accident along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The corpers had just left the NYSC orientation camp, Sagamu, after their Passing Out Parade and were travelling to Sango Ota when the…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has said that soon, allowances for members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) will be increased. The NYSC Director General, Brigadier General Suleiman Kazaure, reiterated this on Saturday while addressing the 2018 Batch ‘B’ corps members deployed to Adamawa State. Kazaure who was at the orientation camp in…