By JKNewsMedia PROSPECTIVE CORPS members will not be mobilised for national service without clearance from the National Electronic Registration Database (NERD), the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has declared. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the directive comes as the NYSC prepares to mobilise another batch of prospective corps members whil...
By Reuben Abati PETER F. DRUCKER, the Austrian American management guru (1909 -2005), it was who opined that change is an inevitable constant in human situations and that innovation is important in the 21st Century where skills become obsolete at the speed of light and what was deemed essential yesterday sooner or later becomes irrelevant, [&...
By Kofoworola Fakeye, JKNewsMedia Reporter COMPREHENSIVE REFORMS to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme have received approval from President Bola Tinubu and the Federal Executive Council (FEC), marking the first holistic review of the scheme in its 53-year history. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the approved reforms are intended to ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent MORE THAN 1.4 million National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members will be required to support the 2027 General Election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has projected. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the INEC Chairman Prof. Joash Amupitan disclosed this on Monday during a cour...
A currently serving National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member posted to one of the Southwest states in Nigeria, JUMMIA EMMANUEL, JKNewsMedia Reporter, recounts her daily experience as water vanished, power failed and snakes crept into living spaces after she and some colleagues were unable to travel to their home states and remained at their ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent GRADUATES SEEKING mobilisation into the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) will from October 6, 2025, be required to provide proof of compliance with the Nigeria Education Repository and Databank (NERD) policy before they can be mobilised or granted exemption, according to a directive issued b...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter NATIONAL SCHEME faces critical restructuring to align with youth needs and national goals as the Federal Government has launched a major overhaul of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Setting up a reform committee to re-evaluate and transform the nearly five-decade-old programme, FG said the m...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter CONFUSION ENGULFED Nigerian campuses in April 2024 after the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) boldly flagged long-standing university admissions as “fake”, cutting off graduates from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) just days before mobilisation. The move left an estimated 14,0...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE NATIONAL Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has dismissed recent social media claims that it will increase corps members’ allowances to ₦70,000. Rather, the NYSC clarified that there has been no official directive or plan to adjust corps members’ stipends in line with the new minimum wage. Ac...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNMedia Reporter THE NATIONAL Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has suspended monthly clearance and weekly community development services for corps members across Nigeria. This decision comes ahead of the planned protests scheduled to begin on August 1. The protests, under the banner “End Bad Governance in Nigeria,”...
