Cross River State-owned Calabar Garment factory seals NYSC kitting deal
Fresh production capacity expansion deal has been sealed between the management of the Cross River state-owned Calabar Garment factory and National Youth Service Corps’ (NYSC) for the production of 8,000 pairs of uniforms. Business Hilights recalls that the now growing…
Twist as Minister drags NYSC to court for no call-up letter in 1979
A new twist emerged Monday on the ongoing controversy over the none participation of the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu in the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) after graduation from the University of Ife in 1979, a year after…
NYSC: Nigerians disturbed on Shittu’s continued stay in Buhari’s cabinet
Reference to the recent acceptance by the Minister of Communications, Barr Adebayo Shittu that his hitherto claims of preferring to serve as a State lawmaker on graduation instead of serving the nation in National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is an…
Did NYSC Act permit Davido to leave state of primary assignment for Osun politics?
Whereas the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) bylaws clearly prohibit political activities for serving Corp members, it is no more news that David Adeleke, popularly known as ‘Davido’ was leading the campaign entertainment wing of Senator Adeleke’s guber activities ahead…
Adeosun: Team of lawyers threatens to sue NYSC for providing ‘blurred details’
Relying on the Freedom of Information Act passed some years ago, a team of legal practitioners are currently perfecting documentation to drag the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) over their terse statement on what they know concerning the trending exemption…
Saraki at NYSC camp, says ‘Our youths have capacity to match their peers worldwide’
More prominent Nigerians are continuing to denounce the recently trending comments made by President Muhammadu Buahri which tend to suggest that Nigerian youths are lazy, waiting to eat free oil money. President Buhari made the comment while addressing Commonwealths body…
Time for FRSC to consider driving, walking along with earpiece traffic offence
In the last few years, the number of accident victims traced to be wearing earpiece at the time of the accident has been on the rise. Details and statistics show that out of 10 accidents on either highways or streets,…
GE, NYSC begin partnership to drill Corp Members’ in entrepreneurial skills
General Electric (GE), world’s premier Digital Industrial, Power and Rail services group, has announced a partnership with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to empower Youth Corps members with valuable entrepreneurial skills in line with its commitment to skills development…
Outrage as FG owes passed out NYSC members 2 months allowance
For the first time in the history of Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), a federal government programme designed to deepen national cohesion and diversity, the passing out parade of Corps members on Thursday last week, was marred by unpaid…
BoI crashes interest rate of youths’ loans to zero percent to grow SMEs
Though the Minister of Finance has failed to streamline the role borders between all development banks following the recent takeoff of Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN), there are signals that Bank of Industry (BoI) is now raising its game in…
