The Coordinator, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Kano, Alhaji Ladan Baba says nine corps members from the 2018 Batch A are to repeat the one year national service. The Coordinator said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the passing out of 2,682 Batch A corps members on Thursday…

More details are emerging from the boat mishap on the evening of Saturday, March 9 near Ebrohimi in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, in which 22 persons were involved. Giving an update on the incident yesterday, the Delta State police command revealed that three policemen were onboard the ill-fated boat, but had…

At the collation centre covering about 52 polling units in Isheri-Idimu Council, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ad hoc staff from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) were seen protesting the non-payment of their allowances.

Many residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, yesterday, shunned entreaties from politicians to come out and vote. The turnout was low for the Area Council elections.

Kimpact Development Initiatives (KDI), an NGO, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to address some of the lapses encountered during the Feb. 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections. Mr Bukola Idowu, the Executive Director, KDI, and Coordinator, Southwest Hub of Nigerian Election Violence Report (NEVR) made this known in an interview with the…

Rivers State apart from being plagued by a rash of election-related violence and irregularities also experienced a logistics nightmare in the last presidential and National Assembly polls. On the eve of the elections, most roads were devoid of vehicular movements and the only places, where there was high concentration of vehicles were the various INEC…

Mrs. Lai Koiki is the Executive Director, Greensprings Schools, Lagos. In this interview with Ujunwa Atueyi, she deplored the present teaching and learning methodology in most schools, calling on government to create sound policies that will transform the sector, as well as bring back population control programmes and campaigns to reduce the increasing number of…

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Anambra has confirmed attack on its members deployed as ad hoc staff in the general elections in the state.

Gunmen yesterday freed 14 of the 18 kidnapped National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), who served as ad hoc staff in the weekend’s presidential and federal legislative elections in Akwa Ibom State. According to the breakdown, 10 were abducted in Abak, four in Itu and another four in Ikono, just as two others were mistakenly arrested…

Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi, founder of Stand To End Rape Initiative (S.T.E.R) is fortunate to be alive. She was raped after she refused to be involved in election malpractice as a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member. “They set a trap for me to be raped by one of the village boys…I had been raped as…

More than 50 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), said to be on ad hoc duty, are currently stranded at the National Independent Electoral Commission [INEC], Enugu State headquarters. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the corps members, who were seen looking distressed as some of them lay…

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has lauded the level of preparedness by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the security agencies for Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Kano State.