NYSC DG assures Corps members to await monthly allowance with minimum wage

The Director General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brig-Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim has assured corps members that they will begin receiving monthly allowance with the new minimum wages. 

 

While making the assurance, Ibrahim insisted that the federal government has approved the minimum wage for the corps members and that they should await payment.

 

Corps members are currently receiving a monthly allowance of N19, 800 from the federal government. While giving the assurances, the DG also revealed that some foreign students do not show up in camps despite uploading their details during the online registration. 

'During the 2019 Batch C mobilization, over 20, 000 foreign-trained Nigerians uploaded online for mobilization but through our measures of physical verification, only 3,420 showed up. This is to tell you that we are good, because I warned them earlier that if they are not qualified, they should not show up,' he said. 

He also mentioned the arrest of fake corps members during the Batch B 2019 Orientation exercise and have been prosecuted in court and jailed. 'In the Batch B streams 1 and 2, we made several arrests and I am happy to inform Nigerians that some have been prosecuted and jailed last week,' DG Ibrahim noted. 

'We have not arrested any fake corps member in camps in this current orientation exercise going on,' he added.