•Mrs Emmanuella Arukwe A total of 2,659 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) across Nigeria have been pre-qualified for the final phase of the NNPC Foundation Business Pitching Exercise. Billed to hold from July 2nd to 10th, 2024,…
Nkiru Olumide-Ojo’s ‘Marketplace Readiness’ to equip young Nigerians for marketplace success
Nkiru Olumide-Ojo, corporate executive and founder of the LightHouse Network, has launched her new book titled Step Forward: Market Place Readiness, in a bold step to enforce and ensure inclusive and equitable quality education, and to promote lifelong learning opportunities…
‘We can’t say for sure,’ Youth Minister speaks on raising corps members’ allowance
The Minister of Youth Development, Jamila Bio-Ibrahim, says it is not certain that the Federal Government will increase the monthly allowance of serving members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Bio-Ibrahim, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday…
So long a letter — Gbubemi Atimomo
Reflections on the almost completely lost art of letter writing A couple of months ago, while looking for something I cannot remember, I stumbled upon a stash of letters I received during youth service about twenty years ago. My National…
149 days in kidnappers’ den:Bring back our children alive, parents of NYSC 7 beg FG
Distraught parents of seven Akwa Ibom prospective National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members kidnapped in Zamfara State are losing hope on the fate of their children still in kidnappers’ den over four months after they were abducted. Recall that on…
The Governor of Enugu State — Chuks Iloegbunam
There is this social media skit on democracy that is forever entertaining. In it, a teacher tells his students that, despite Abraham Lincoln’s classic definition, democracy was actually “the government of some people by some people and for some people.”…
Flood takes over NPC, NYSC premises in Lagos
A downpour on Thursday caused flooding of the National Population Commission (NPC) and National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) premises at Babs Animashaun Road, Surulere, Lagos State. The heavy rain, which started about 11.30 a.m., continued until about 1.00 p.m. The…