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  • NYSC members receive Sultan Community Service Award

    NYSC members receive Sultan Community Service Award

    Two National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members have won the Sultan Abubakar Sa’ad III Community Service Award in Sokoto State.

    The state NYSC Coordinator, Alhaji Musa Abubakar said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Sokoto, that the recipients were of the 2016 batch ‘A’, stream 1,

    He gave the names of the awardees as Mr Clifford Udeh and Miss Shekirat Adetona, who served in Government Girls Day Secondary School, Bashire and Government Junior Secondary School, Ginga in Tambuwal and Shagari local government areas respectively.

    He said that the Sultan’s award was for corps members who served in rural areas and distinguished themselves in their interactions with locals and community development initiatives.

    Abubakar said that out of the 1,875 corps members under the batch who completed their service year on Nov. 2, seventeen also received awards for outstanding performance.

    He said that among the 17, four obtained state government awards, three won local government awards while 10 received commendations for efficient service in their various places of primary assignments.

    Abubakar also disclosed that two corps members from Sokoto state won second and third positions in fashion design and leather works respectively at the NYSC national skills and entrepreneurship competition.

    “We are hopeful that some corps members from the state will get presidential awards as the committee begins to screen nominations from states,” the official said.

    Read: NYSC extends service of 12 corps members in Ekiti for misconduct

    On sanctions, the coordinator said that six corps members would repeat the service year for absconding from their places of primary assignments, while 10 others had their service year extended for between two weeks and one month, for various offences.

    He said that the NYSC had partnered with some agencies to impart business skills to corps members in order for them to be productive during and after service.

    Abubakar said that the Bank of Industry, Central Bank of Nigeria, Heritage Bank and poverty eradication agencies had granted loans ranging from N1 million to N3 million to some corps members.

    “At present 10 corps members have established business outfits based on the training they received and are prepared to stay in Sokoto after the service year,” the coordinator said.

    He identified lack of accommodation as a major challenge facing corps members in the state and appealed to the state government and other corporate bodies to assist.

    Read Also: NYSC sanctions 15 corps members in Nasarawa

  • What’s next after NYSC?

    What’s next after NYSC?

    A big Congratulations to the recently passed out Youth corpers. Smooth or not, you have served your fatherland the best way you can, Your khaki wearing days are over, no more CDS, no more PPA and there is no more payment of 19,800 to your accounts monthly.

    Now that your service year is over, what is Next?

    It is time to make things happen for you. If you are still contemplating what to do, here are some tips to help you begin well in this new phase of life.

    Have a good- written Cv

    By now, you are expected to have well- written curriculum vitae. Also, you should have started circulating them. Remember that, a good CV is more likely to lead to a job interview.

    Do your research properly

    You can learn a lot about a company just from visiting their website and doing some research. Your CV will be more relevant if for instance, you can use value statements to match yourself to the company’s mission statement and goals. In the long run, this will help you have the background you need if you make it to the interview stage.

    Get yourself a hobby

    Make the most of this period and take up something which will set you apart. Start a small business now. Be an entrepreneur and let that business be your hobby.

    Read: Why embrace entrepreneurship?

    Sell yourself, not the title of your degree

    When you start applying for jobs, there’s a good chance your degree won’t have that much relevance to the position you’re applying for. This doesn’t mean you’re unsuitable. Look past the title of your degree and think about what skills you have acquired along the way.

    Keep building your network

    Do not underestimate the power of networking. Search through your friends and family, family friends and friends of friends. You may not have seen them for years, you may never even have met them. That shouldn’t matter. Get your name out there!

    Read: NYSC mobilization details for 2017 Batch B

    Understand that money isn’t everything

    You should understand that it’s not always about money. To get into your desired field or dream job, you’ll probably need to gain some experience. This could be entry level or even unpaid. Weigh your options carefully before choosing one job over another or worse still quitting your job. You should be prepared to start from the bottom.

    Live within your means
    learn to manage whatever money you are paid. It is for a limited period of time. If you live above your means, you will get into trouble. At this point, you’ll probably be used to having limited funds since you got stipends during your service year.

    Be computer literate
    You ‘must’ have the ability to use computers and related technology efficiently, with a range of skills. You have to evolve.
    Remember: it’s never too late.

    Once again, Congratulations!

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  • NYSC: 16 corps members to repeat service in Anambra

    NYSC: 16 corps members to repeat service in Anambra

    Sixteen members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Anambra are to repeat their service year while three others will serve various terms of disciplinary measures.

    The Anambra NYSC Coordinator, Mr Ebenezer Olawale, who made the disclosure on Thursday in Awka, said no formal passing out ceremony was held in the state.

    Olawale added that certificates were issued at the various local government NYSC offices.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 2, 158 corps members successfully concluded their service year and were issued with discharge certificates.

    NAN also reports that seven deserving corps members won the Governor’s Award, while four went home with the Chairman’s Award as the youth members passed out on Thursday.

    The coordinator congratulated the outgoing youths but regretted that 19 of them were to face disciplinary measures, with 16 repeating their service, while three would serve the extension of between two and four months.

    On the upcoming November 18 governorship polls in Anambra, the NYSC coordinator said that the body still had enough manpower to take care of its expected role in the election.

    “There are no fewer than 8,000 corps members currently serving in the state,’’ he said.

    Olawale noted that his office would work with the NYSC offices in neighbouring states to Anambra to take care of any shortfall in the provision of personnel for the election.

    He said the discharged corps members who wished to take part in the election were at liberty to stay back but no one was under compulsion to do so.

    Meanwhile, the Director-General of the NYSC Brig.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, will visit Anambra to address corps members ahead of the governorship election.

    Olawale told NAN that Kazuaure would hold a one-day interface with the corps members on Nov. 7 alongside heads of other security agencies in Anambra at the Alex Ekweme Square in Awka.

    According to him, the director-general’s visit was largely to speak to the corps members who would serve in ad-hoc capacity during the election on the need for them to be neutral.

  • 2, 045 corps members to pass out Thursday in Kwara

    2, 045 corps members to pass out Thursday in Kwara

    A total of 2, 045 corps members are expected to pass out from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme after the completion of the mandatory one year national service in Kwara.

    Mr Oladipo Morakinyo, the State NYSC Public Relations Officer, via a statement issued on Tuesday in Ilorin, said the ceremony would be low keyed.

    “The management of the scheme scheduled a low-key passing out ceremony for the 2016 Batch B, Stream 1, for Thursday, Nov.2,’’ Morakinyo added.

    He added that adequate arrangements have been made to issue certificate of national service to the deserving corps members at some designated locations across the state.

    Morakinyo said that three Nysc members that distinguished themselves during the service year were nominated for the NYSC State Honours Award, while another eight will receive commendation certificates.

    He added that 25 Nysc members would be sanctioned for committing various offences during the service year.

    “They were sanctioned for various offences committed during the service year; some out rightly absconded from the service, while others contravened various sections of the NYSC bye laws.”

    Morakinyo announced that three corps members lost their lives during the service year.

    NAN

  • Kwara gets new NYSC Coordinator

    Kwara gets new NYSC Coordinator

    The Director-General of NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Zakari Kazaure, has appointed Mr Amaefule Remigius as the new State Coordinator of the corps for Kwara.

    The NYSC state Public Relations Officer, Mr Oladipo Morakinyo, said this in a statement in Ilorin on Wednesday.
    It said the new coordinator would take over from Mrs Esther Atamenwan, who retired recently from service.

    The statement said Amaefule was until his new appointment, the Deputy Director, Corps Welfare and Inspectorate at the headquarters in Abuja.

    It added that the appointee has also served in several managerial capacities within the scheme.

    It described the new coordinator as an astute administrator, youth manager and mobiliser.

    The statement also announced that the formal handover ceremony would soon take place at the NYSC Secretariat in Ilorin.

    “While congratulating the new State Coordinator on the appointment, it is our prayer that the tenure shall be fruitful,” it added.

    NAN

  • El-Rufai seeks more funding for NYSC

    El-Rufai seeks more funding for NYSC

    Gov. Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Wednesday called for improved funding for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to make it function effectively.

    El-Rufai made the call when the leadership of NYSC, led by its Director General, Brig.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure paid him a courtesy visit in Kaduna.

    Kazaure is in Kaduna for a 3-day pre-orientation workshop for the 2017 batch ‘B’ corps members.

    The governor said the scheme should be properly funded as it serves as avenue of exploring the country’s diversity and strengthening its unity.

    “So, whatever the NYSC scheme needs to successfully take care of corps members, for them to go wherever they want to be in Nigeria, should be fully funded.’’

    The governor however frowned at situations in which corps members refuse postings to places they had never been to in the country.

    “From what I hear, many young people now don’t like going to states other than where they will be comfortable.

    “They think places where they have never been to are hostile communities and they don’t want to go there.

    “But I will like to use this medium to appeal to our young people to be adventurous.

    “NYSC will make you go to places you have never been because that is how you will know more about Nigeria.’’

    El-Rufa’i advised the NYSC management to do more in posting corps members to areas new to them.

    “This is what I will like to see the NYSC do, instead of fixing postings; just allow the computer to post people based on where they have gone to school,’’ he said.

    According to him, posting corps members to where they have never been to was the only way to bring young Nigerians together so they can understand the nation’s problems and challenges.

    El-Rufa’i thanked the management of NYSC for choosing Kaduna as venue for the national workshop and expressed the hope that the forum would boost the economy of the state.

    He added that the development was an indication that the security situation in the state had improved.

    Earlier, Kazaure said the choice of Kaduna State, to host the event, was in appreciation of the support and hospitality the scheme enjoys from the government and its people.

    The director general assured that the scheme, under his leadership, would continue to build on its solid foundation, as well as come up with initiatives that would promote national integration.

    NAN

  • NYSC mobilization details for 2017 Batch B

    NYSC mobilization details for 2017 Batch B

    1. Briefing/Sensitization of Final year students/prospective corps Members from 12th Oct to 10th Nov 2017

    2. Display of list of all approved programmes for institutions on NYSC portal for cross checking and feedback from 12th to 15th Oct. 2017

    3. Collation of Prospective Corps Members’ Data by Corps Producing Institutions CPIs from 12th to  15th Oct. 2017

    4. Uploading of Senate/Academic Board Approved Results for Full/Part-Time Graduates and Revalidation Lists by CPIs from 16th to 21st Oct. 2017

    5. Submission of Senate/Academic Board Approved Results for Full/Part-Time Graduates and Revalidation Lists by CPIs from 20th to 23rd Oct. 2017

    6. On-line Registration by Foreign and locally Trained Nigerian Graduates from 24th October to 12th November 2017

    7. Entertainment of complaints from Prospective Corps Members by the state Deployment and Relocation officers and NYSC Help Lines/Desks officers from  23rd October to 12th November 2017

    8. Forwarding of Complaints to Mobilisation Dept by State Deployment and Relocation officers from 23rd October to 12th November 2017

    9. Deployment and Printing of Call-up Letters by ICT Department from 13th to 17th Nov, 2017

    10. Notification/On-line Printing of Call-up Letters/Delivery of Call-up letters to Institutions (stream I) from 17th to 20th Nov, 2017

    11. Online Printing of Deployment Disposition by Corps Producing Institutions (CPIs) from 18th to 21st Nov, 2017

    12. 2017 Batch ‘B’ Orientation Course

    Read Also: NYSC to commence online registration of Batch B

  • NYSC commences online registration of Batch B

    NYSC commences online registration of Batch B

    The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has released details of Online registration for 2017 Batch ‘B’ corps members.

    According to the timetable released by the scheme, the online registration for foreign and locally trained graduates, begins 24th October.

    It also noted that prospective corps members will be able to print their call-up letters from Nov 13.

    The Scheme, did not however state when the orientation course will begin.

    Graduates are to visit the NYSC portal
    Click to read details here

    Read Also: NYSC has achieved mandate, says Gowon

  • No Corps member had twins for me, it is a rumour – Amosun

    No Corps member had twins for me, it is a rumour – Amosun

    Governor Ibikunle Amosun on Friday morning broke his silence on what he considered as the avalanches of rumours and falsehood being peddled against him by people bent on running him and his administration down.

    Amosun cited the case of a lady on National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) who was rumoured to have had twins for him in less than a year ago and said the rumour gained so much currency that his Mother – In-law had to call him to confirm if what she heard about a ‘second wife’ having twins was true or not.

    The Governor who debunked the rumour as “concoction of idiots” at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, during a Town Hall meeting of stakeholders for the 2018 Budget preparation, said no lady or girl friend had twins for him.

    The meeting was organized by the state’s Ministry of Budget and Planning for the purpose of collecting the inputs of all stakeholders and build them into the preparation of the 2018 Executive Appropriation Bill but Amosun used the avenue to clear air on rumours being circulated against him.

    He said has been married to his wife, Mrs Olufunso Amosun, in the last 26 years and had never kept a girl friend, let alone having one that delivered twins for him, adding that the twins issue also got to the notice of his wife.

    He noted that task of keeping one wife is even challenging today in Nigeria and had no plans to double such challenges with additional baggage.

    The Governor also vowed to smoke out those peddling rumours and falsehood against him, saying he would send them to jail where they rightly belonged.

    He noted that those purveyors of falsehood could beat James Hadley Chase in “fiction concoction.”

     

  • Bauchi Governor praises NYSC medical corps

    Bauchi Governor praises NYSC medical corps

    Bauchi State Governor Mohammed  Abubakar has applauded the initiative of the National Youth Service Medical Corps for the provision of healthcare intervention to enhance health needs of rural dwellers.

    Abubakar made the commendation at Wendi District headquarters of DASS Local Government at the kick-off of 2017 ongoing four-day NYSC Health Initiative  For Rural Dwellers.

    Represented  by his Special Adviser on Security Matters Brig.-Gen.Yusuf Ladan, Abubakar noted that the intervention is intended to support efforts of his administration’s focus to improve the quality of life and standard of living of of Bauchi people.

    Abubakar also said “Government places high premium on excellent  healthcare delivery”, that is why” we implement a deliberate polic of allocating 16 per cent of the state budget”.

    “We have constructed 19 Primary Healthcare Centers across the local government areas in the state with modern medical equipment.”.

    “This efforts resulted into the selection ofBauchi among Adamawa and Kebbi states in northern Nigeria for implementation of the European,and UNICEF project for strengthening Primary Healthcare and Community Resilience for Improved Maternal,Newborn child Health and Nutrition (MNEHN).

    The NYSC Board Chairman,Mr Yohannsh Simon recalled that “since NYSC was established in 1973 to foster unity and promote the development of the country, the Scheme has being performing its roles successfully”.

    “Apart from the Health outreach,NYSC is also working tirelessly for the development of other sectors of the society through appropriate deployment of manpower of our youth” he added.

    Earlier,Bauchi state NYSC Coordinator Mr. Afolatan Adeolu James said “the Health initiative for Rural Dwellers  is to deploy manpower and expertise of Corps Medical Personnel for providing medical intervention in in diagnoses,treatment,and referrals with focus on our rural communities”.