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  Following the increased rate of Boko Haram attacks in Northern Nigeria, the National Youth Service Corps has redeployed corps members posted to 7 northern states namely: Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano and Yobe states to other states believed to have lesser security issues.In a statement�signed yesterday July 31st ...

Two members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Batch C, serving in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, were crushed to death, while another sustained injuries when a truck ran over them yesterday. The corps members identified as Abubakar Muktar from Yobe State and Mustapha Sani Sufi from Kano State, ...

We reported this story, from� Punch some days ago . 26 years old Sulaimon Abari and 27 years old O’tega Daniel, had been arraigned� in� an Ibadan Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting at Iyaganku for allegedly engaging in homosexual practices with a pupil . They were eventually acquitted and the reason ...

Two National Youth Service Corps members, O’tega Daniel, 27, and Sulaimon Abari, 26, serving in Ibadan were on Monday, arraigned in an Ibadan Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting at Iyaganku for engaging in homosexual acts with a student. Abari, a graduate of the Lagos State University, Ojo, and O’tega were serving ...

Akwaihedi community in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State has allegedly passed a law against the wearing of trousers by women. Culprits will be fined N50,000. A source said: �Anyone caught breaking the law will be molested and fined N50,000 or be banished.” The source said but for ...

The police in Osun State have arrested a member of the National Youth Service Corps in the state for allegedly stealing a�motorcycle. The corps member, Kazeem Adebisi, was said�to have�stolen the red Bajaj motorcycle with number plate, FST 680 QB, at Agunbelewo area of Osogbo on Thursday. The owner of ...

Justice Oyejide Falola of the Osun State High Court sitting in Ikirun on Tuesday gave the verdict today, putting an end to a three-year sexual case that has brought national attention on the traditional king, the Alowa of Ilowa-Ijesa, Oba Adebukola Alli, and his accuser, Helen Okpara. Delivering�judgment, Falola said ...

The police in Bayelsa State have arrested the alleged attackers of Folakemi Akinbode, a National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member serving in the state whose right hand was almost chopped off, Monday night, at Obunagha in Yenagoa Local Government Area. You may wish to know that an Italian firm has ...

This actually happened on the 19th of July, 2013. Two female corps members serving in Community Secondary school Iddo in Asari-Toru LGA of Rivers State were severely burnt beyond recognition by the one of the victim’s boyfriend who�attacked them in their room. One of the victims, named Amarachi Okey Winifred, ...

26-year-old NYSC�member serving in Bayelsa State, Miss Folakemi Akinbode, is now struggling for her life at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri, following a brutal attack from suspected cultists. The incident occurred, Monday, at about 8.30pm at Obunagha community in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. Miss ...

Culled from SunNews In November 2012, Miss Mercy Okpithe reported to the Batch ‘C’ Orientation Camp of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Anambra State. Excited and�looking forward to the opportunity to serve Nigeria for one year. But little did Mercy know that four months later, fate would have ...

Benue State Ministry of Finance has, on Thursday, refused to pay the N25,000 which the state government normally pays outgoing corps members who served in organisations owned/run by the state. The 2012 batch ‘B’ corps members who passed out on Thursday were shocked, on getting to the finance office, to ...

The 26yrs old Corper, identified as Amadi Stanley, was said to have taken a 15-year-old girl, whose parent were friendly with him, saying they were going on a stroll. The girl, a secondary school student, wanted to return home after they’ve covered some distance, but the Corper refused and they ...

The NYSC Director, Public Relation, Mrs Bosede Aribigbe, on Tuesday advised prospective corps members to obtain their JAMB registration numbers, to avoid demobilisation. Aribigbe �in Abuja said �that one of the requirements for participation in the orientation exercise was the presentation of JAMB registration number. According to her, only corps ...

Members of the National Youth Service Corps may have to wait longer for an upward review of their monthly allowance as the Federal Government has said it has no plan for such at the moment, Dailypost can authoritatively report. The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier ...

NIGERIA Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Nasarawa State command, on Monday, arrested 62 fake corps members at another fake National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp at Tammah village, in Nasarawa Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the fake orientation camp was to operate for ...

NYSC authorities�have defended their action on the de-camping of one Miss Tolulope Ekundayo, after she refused�to wear trouser at the Sagamu Orientation Camp in Ogun. Remember her story, right? Well, here’s what the NYSC Coordinator�in Ogun State, Mrs. Theresa Anosike said really happened: “We had to decamp a corps member, ...

Members of the National Youth Service Corps undertaking their orientation exercise at the Ondo state camp now live in fear for their safety as a black snake was discovered yesterday in the male� hostel causing panic among ‘corpers’. According to one of the youth ‘corpers’ who craved anonymity, �I was ...

Reactions have started trailing the decamping of 2013 Batch A, female corps member, Ms Tolu Ekundayo, by the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Ogun State for wearing skirt at the Shagamu orientation camp. In a press conference organised by Ekundayo’s church, Faith Revival Apostolic Church, FRAC, in Lagos, the expelled ...