The chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has promised automatic employment to members of the National Youth Service Corp, NYSC, who “do exceptionally well during elections” as INEC ad hoc staff. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Yakubu made the promise on Wednesday during the commission’s daily briefing in Abuja. He also said that the commission values NYSC members very highly and will never joke with their welfare. File: NYSC members He was reacting to questions posed at him concerning the welfare of corps members who would work as INEC ad-hoc staff this Saturday. Recall that INEC had, last Saturday, postponed the presidential and parliamentary elections in the country to this coming Saturday, 23rd of February, 2019. INEC had cited, among others, technical issues and the cause for the postponement. Meanwhile, just as condemnations trailed INEC’s post...

Everything you need to live well Corp members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have complained about the lack of protection promised by the NYSC at the 2019 general elections. Despite the welfare promises made by the Director-General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, corp members were seen sleeping in buses and on grasses without the protection of the It should be recalled that in Lagos alone, over 13,000 corp members had been mobilised for the elections. The Lagos Coordinator, Mohammed Momoh, had said during an interview on the 6th of February that the NYSC had improved security to ensure that the corp members are protected. “We don’t expect anything else from this election; we have picked valuable lessons from our participation from 2011 till date and we have been putting them to use. That is why the elections are getting better and the security of corps members is enhanced.” NYSC INEC Nine days after stating this, cor...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Wednesday warned corps members on election duty to desist from receiving snacks and drinks from unknown persons during elections. *NYSC members Maj.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, NYSC Director-General, gave the warning while addressing the corps members in Gombe. Kazaure, who was represented by Mr Zakaria Alphonso, Assistant Director, Mobilisation, NYSC, Abuja, said that such gifts could harm them. “Because such items can be poisoned or flavoured with drugs that can induce sleep,” he said. He advised the corps members to make personal feeding plans and water, and make they do not over feed. “Rather, you should go along with your lunch packs to your various polling units,” the NYSC chief advised. The D-G told the corps members to display high-level of integrity, patriotism and commitment to ensuring free, fair and credible elections. Kazaure advised the corps members to ensure that their phones were charged, with enough airtime an...

  The deceased A Facebook user, Chimelum Ajanma  has shared the story of a tertiary institution graduate who lost her life unexpectedly. She was awaiting her National Youth Service Corp call-up letter which was supposed to engage her for a whole year. The netizen claimed to have chatted with her before she died and she shared evidence. Read what she wrote below: ''I heard about your demise this afternoon and I was devastated, I mean why on earth will your life be cut short at this time when you are already at the peak of enjoying your labour after graduating from the uni awaiting Nysc! We had a short conversation weeks back little did I know that will be our last chat, No sickness,No accident,slept and never came back just like that..life is a joke! Rip dear, till we meet to part no more. I love you dear friend" See more images: