He said this in his speech read at the inauguration of the 2017 Batch «A»
youth corps members at the NYSC Orientation Camp, Ede, in Osun State, on Thursday.
«We know that ad hoc (members of) staff are usually officials of the Federal Government's agencies in the state, neighbouring states and
youth corps members.
«Despite that we have over 9,000
Youth Corps members in Ekiti State and it has been the general practice to engage the NYSC members in elections across the country, the APC in collusion with INEC has asked that students of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) be recruited as INEC ad - hoc staff for the election, instead of
youth corps members.»
The anti-graft agency also arrested one Prosper Onukagba who is
a youth corps member serving in the Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State.
For instance, in January 2013, a 28 - year - old
youth corps member in Ogun State, Egbe Ogbu, was reportedly killed by a car while chatting with friends on his Blackberry mobile device.
Not exact matches
The Director - General of the National
Youth Service
Corps (NYSC), Gen. Suleiman Kazaure said on Monday, that the scheme will soon begin posting of
corps members to farms.
Prospective
corps members had expressed concerns after Sule Kazaure, director - general of the service, told the senate committee on
youth and sport that the programme might be postponed as a result of lack of funds.
The National
Youth Service
Corps has said the scheme will redeploy any
corps member who feels unsafe in states where the activities of Fulani herdsmen have led to loss of lives.
«This year (2016) for instance, since the Federal Government does not want a situation where
youths who are done with tertiary education hang out longer than necessary before having their chance to serve, we were given 260, 000
corps members to mobilize,» she told The Guardian.»
The State Coordinator, NYSC Ekiti State, Mrs. Nwano Eze Ukgha who put the number of
youths registered in the new batch at 2,066 warned the
corps members against indulging in cult activities, consumption of illicit drugs, and other forms of unwholesome acts on the camp as erring
members would be handed over to the camp court for trial according to the by - laws.
The National
Youth Service
Corps (NYSC) in Osun State has blacklisted Osogbo High School after some
corps members were attacked by students believed to be cult...
The management of National
Youth Service
Corps, NYSC, has released call - up letters for 2018 Batch A prospective
corps members.
The management of National
Youth Service
Corps, NYSC has released call up letters for Batch A 2017 (stream I) prospective
corps members.
The Director - General of the National
Youth Service
Corps, Brig. Gen. Sule Kazaure, has warned
corps members who will be participating in the forthcoming governorship election in Ondo State to shun acts that can violate electoral laws during the election.
Anumonye explained that most of the witnesses, who were staff not stationed in the state while the ad hoc staff were
corps members wh o had completed their national
youth service.
The batch A, 2014 National
Youth Service
Corps, NYSC, has held a one - day cultural carnival meant to unite
corps members who will be carrying out their...
Following the demand of the National
Youth Service
Corps, NYSC, for partial mobilization for the 2016 Batch B
corps members, the Committee of Vice Chancellors, CVC,...
The National
Youth Service
Corps (NYSC) has said no
corps member serving in Kwara died in any autocrash in Oke - Ose, Ilorin.
The Ijaw
youths, under the umbrella of Ijaw
Youth Council Worldwide, have kicked against the posting of
corps members of ijaw origin to the northern part...
In the same vein, the National
Youth Service
Corps in Osun State has extended the service of 10 of the 2,086 outgoing
corps members of 2017 batch A, stream 1 for committing various offences.