NYSC: SAED, Trust Fund as Solutions for Youth Unemployment

NYSC: SAED, Trust Fund as Solutions for Youth Unemployment By David Ifeanyi Unemployment in Nigeria today is in another class of its own. That many graduatebyouths in the country are languishing in the job market, with no hope to redeem their bleak future, is a statement of fact. A report by the National Bureau of […]

NYSC: Why we must celebrate Gowon’s vision

  NYSC: Why we must celebrate Gowon’s vision By Etumakwa Akoni The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has continued to remain a unifying force, binding Nigerians of various shades of religion, culture, ethnicity and ideological creeds despite the existential threats by some unpatriotic Nigerians. The scheme has come to stay because the youth, for which  […]

  Corps member designs software for Army resource centre By Uji A. Iliyasu Abuja A youth corps member, Mr Godfrey Godwin Enang, of the Information and Communication Technology department of the Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC) Abuja,  has designed an application for the centre.  A statement from the office of the Director General of NYSC, Brig-General […]

NYSC: Patriots and insurgents

  NYSC: Patriots and insurgents By Uji A. Iliyasu Any Nigerian graduate youth who had passed through the gamut of national youth service love to tell their experiences with nostalgia. The national service, though faced with its challenges, its prospects far outweigh those challenges. Recently, some Nigerian opinion moulders, at different fora, spoke for or […]

Of NYSC and its many antagonists

  Of NYSC and its many antagonists  By Abdulsalam Mahmud In the Sunday Trust of October 3, 2021, was a feature with terror-inducing headline, “Unsafe and uncertain: Inside Nigeria’s mandatory youth corps”, originally done by Al-Jazeera. The report however, has so many spurious claims, outright misinformation and erroneous facts, deliberately put together to discredit the […]

Corps member donates toilet facility to Army school

  Corps member donates toilet facility to Army school By Bayo Agboola Ibadan As a measure to put a lasting solution to the felt needs of her host community, a corps member, Iniobong Emmanuel Dorcas, has  donated a twin toilet facility to Army Day Secondary School, Iwo Road, Ibadan, as part of her personal Community […]

Breaking: Buhari orders Twitter back if…speaks on COVID-19, agriculture, insecurity, others *Read President’s full speech on Nigeria’s 61st independence anniversary.

 Breaking: Buhari orders Twitter back if…speaks on COVID-19, agriculture, insecurity, others *Read President’s full speech on Nigeria’s 61st independence anniversary. President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a conditional lifting of ban on micro-blogging site, Twitter. Buhari who disclosed this during his broadcast on Nigeria’s 61st Independence anniversary on Friday. The President also spoke […]

61st Independence anniversary: Buhari exposes those sponsoring agitations, violence, preaches unity

61st Independence anniversary: Buhari exposes those sponsoring agitations, violence, preaches unity Pesident Muhammadu Buhari has said  Nigeria must remain a strong and united country despite the current challenges.In a nationwide broadcast to mark the 61st independence anniversary, the president reiterated that the country’s unity is not negotiable. “Nigeria is for all of us. Its unity […]