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NYSC Going After 75 ex- Corp members who failed to refund thousand of naira gotten as Loans

PassionJune 26, 2019NYSC Batch A, NYSC Batch B, NYSC News No comments

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The National Youth Service Corps Foundation is searching for 75 ex- Corp members who took between N300,000 and N400,000 loans to start small businesses and refused to pay back.

The ex- corp members during their service year, used their certificates as collateral to get access to the loans. But almost four years after, they have refused to return the loans and have abandoned their certificates with the foundation.

The NYSC Foundation Chief Executive Officer, Bako Ventim, confirmed this on Monday during the opening of Skills’ Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development workshop at the NYSC Orientation Camp in Kubwa, Abuja.

The director said, “We have been providing loans to corps members and our interest rate is one digit. There is no collateral except the NYSC certificate and two guarantors. We make the conditions very flexible so that the corps members can benefit from these loans.

“We have a challenge where corps members have refused to pay back the loans. We have over 100 corps members who took the loans but some of them have not paid back and we still have their NYSC certificates with us. They have not come to claim these certificates for a number of years.

“We give as much as between N300,000 and N400,000 depending on the business proposals. From the records, we have over 75 corps members that have defaulted and we are pursuing them.”

Youth activist ties himself to tree in protest against killing, kidnapping in Zamfara state

PassionMarch 25, 2019NYSC News No comments

Ubaidullah Yahaya Kaura, who has been candid about the killings and hijacking by criminals in
Zamfara state, attached himself to a tree in challenge.

Youth activist ties himself to tree in protest against killing and kidnapping

Youth activist ties himself to tree in protest against killing and kidnapping

ASUU Strike: FG speaks on resolutions made with ASUU,ASUP

PassionFebruary 04, 2019Current School, Education in Nigeria, Education news, New School News, NYSC News, school news No comments

The Federal Government has released N16.8 billion to settle outstanding salary arrears of staff in the country’s tertiary institutions.

Adamu said that the government had resolved all issues and await the academic unions to also call off their strike in the coming days, especially ASUU and ASUP.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has been on strike since December 12, while the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) started Nov.4

But according to the Minister, the Federal Government has reached agreement in the following areas: Review of Polytechnic Act; government awaits the transmittal of the amended document by the National Assembly to Mr. President for his assent.

Others, he said, were revitalisation of polytechnics and colleges of education, renegotiation of the 2010 agreements, saying that government is committed to the revitalisation of facilities in its public tertiary institutions.

The minister also said that the government had directed the Minister of Finance to source for additional funding to the tune of N30 billion for the purpose, with particular reference to polytechnics and colleges of education.

“Also for state owned polytechnics; the National Board for Technical Education has been directed to strengthen its regulatory mechanism including developing a new template for accreditation to address observed weaknesses.

“And to ensure that proprietors of polytechnics including states and private owners meet their obligations to their staff.

“Again as a demonstration of Government’s commitment to continuous dialogue with the staff unions, the ministry will provide alternative funding for the stalled renegotiations in the polytechnics sub- sector.

“The National Board for Technical Education and the National Commission for Colleges of Education have also been directed to ensure compliance with the approved schedules of meetings with their respective Unions,’’ he said.

Similarly, Adamu noted that the government team had reached agreement with ASUU, while hoping that academic activities will also resume in universities’ campuses across the country without further delay.

He, however, commended the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) for calling off its strike to allow the students in colleges of education get back to academic activities.

NYSC DG warns corps members against electoral malpractice

PassionJanuary 28, 2019General, Gist, Gossip, NYSC News No comments

ENUGU—DIRECTOR General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Major General Suleiman Kazaure has warned Corps members who will take part in this years election aganist engaging in electoral malpractice of any sort stating that defaulting corps members will be prosecuted.

Maj. Gen Kazaure who was addressing Enugu State corps members at the Enugu East LGA Secretariat, Saturday, warned corps members against collecting gifts from politicians who become unnecessarily friendly to them in order to induce them.

<“Study your environment and be security conscious. When faced with obvious danger, secure yourself first.

“Do not enter vehicles belonging to politicians and strangers as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will provide all your needs.

“The participation of corps members in the election as ad hoc staff is not by compulsion, but a voluntary service to their fatherland,” he said.

He advised all corps members on election duty to appear in their uniforms with their identity cards stating that such will help for easy identification.

Speaking at the event, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Mr Emeka Ononamadu, said that corps members participating in the election would have insurance cover.

Ononamadu said that adequate logistics that covered incentives and vehicles for easy movement to areas of deployment had been put in place.

“It is a rare privilege to have all the presiding officers from the NYSC,’ Ononamadu said.

Highlights of the visit of Maj. Gen. Kazaure to Enugu state was the inauguration of a new office block at the NYSC secretariat completed by the Coordinator in the state, Alhaji Ahmed Ikaka.

Adebayo Shittu Sues NYSC For Not Inviting Him For Youth Service by Ukpono Etuk

PassionOctober 16, 2018NYSC News No comments

The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has charged the National Youth Service Corps, to court for allegedly not inviting him to serve. He claimed that the body failed to serve him with a call-up letter in 1979 to enable him to observe the mandatory one-year national youth service, while he was still below the age of 30.

The minister filed the suit marked FHC/IB/CS/111/2018 before the Federal High Court in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, through his lawyer, Mr Olalekan Ojo (SAN). Joined as defendants in the suit are Director General, NYSC; the Oyo State Coordinator, NYSC; the NYSC and the Attorney General of the Federation.

The minister is begging the court to proclaim that the NYSC had waived his obligation to observe the one-year compulsory service by allegedly failing to serve him with a call-up letter in 1979 after he finished from the Nigerian Law School.

The suit is coming after Shittu’s disqualification from Oyo State governorship race by his party, the All Progressives Congress. Recall that the party had screened him out of its governorship primary in Oyo State after it became known that Shittu skipped the compulsory national youth service.

But relying on Section 2(1) of the National Youth Service Corps Act, 1973, Shittu, who read Law from the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, and graduated in 1978, contended that his failure to serve should be blamed on the NYSC.

He is urging the court to declare that “the possession of the NYSC Discharge or Exemption Certificate is not one of the requirements for the appointment of the plaintiff as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria or for his election as a state Governor or as a senator, pursuant to sections 147, 177 and 65 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”