National Youth Service Corps

2023 - 3 - 14

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Nigerian Law Graduate, Muhammad, Wins International Essay ... (THISDAY Newspapers)

*Beats 1,150 competitors from UK, India, 30 African countries. *Says she's proud of her nation. A young Nigerian lady, Fa'izah Atu Muhammad, ...

She expressed excitement for the award and urged young Nigerians to be proud of their country and its educational system. I am also thankful and proud of my parents for their guidance and sacrifice in seeing me through school”. I have not schooled outside the shores of this country, yet I came top of this continental essay competition. The competition is meant to encourage young Africans to freely exhibit their writing skills, leadership skills and other inherent potentials in them. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University in 2020/2021 Academic year with a Second Class Honours (Upper Division). This topic was given by the organizers upon which she wrote excellently and emerged overall winner.

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NYSC Cert: Group Insists Enugu PDP Guber Candidate Not ... (Leadership Newspaper)

Few days to the March 18 Governorship and State House of Assembly elections, a civil society organisation, Total Support for the Rule of Law and Justice.

At a press briefing on Wednesday, the media and publicity secretary of the group, Cynthia Mbakwe, called on the Director General of the Corps, Brigadier General Yusha’u Dogara Ahmed, to intervene and save the integrity of the Corps from officials who have been compromised to delay the response of the Corps to the Police until the conduct of the scheduled governorship election. “It is at this juncture that we make bold to call on the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps Brigadier General Yusha’u Dogara Ahmed to immediately save the image of the Corps and respond to the investigation of the Police and confirm whether the NYSC issued Peter Mbah with the NYSC he presented to INEC.” Few days to the March 18 Governorship and State House of Assembly elections, a civil society organisation, Total Support for the Rule of Law and Justice Initiative, has accused officials of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) of attempts to compromise Police investigations into the allegations of forgery of NYSC Certificate by Peter Mbah, the Enugu State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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Enugu Guber: CSO Charges NYSC DG To Speak Out Over Mbah's ... (Independent Newspaper Nigeria)

ABUJA – The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yasha'u Dogara Ahmed, has been charged to speak out on the ...

Failure to comply, we shall mobilize our members to occupy the headquarters of NYSC until they do the needful,” the group said. For that we commend the Nigeria Police for this,” she said. Addressing newsmen in Abuja, the Media and Publicity Secretary of the group, Bar.

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Perception of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) among corps ... (BMC Medical Education)

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is a compulsory one-year programme for graduates of tertiary schools including doctors. This study was conducted to ...

Perception of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) among corps medical doctors in Nigeria: a cross-sectional study. [1](/articles/10.1186/s12909-023-04135-1#Fig1). The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. Figure [2](/articles/10.1186/s12909-023-04135-1#Fig2). Perceived influence of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Scheme on youth development among ex corps members in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Problems faced at PPAs include no payment (17.0%), no accommodation (51.6%), exploitation (41.4%), insecurity (15.5%). [23](/articles/10.1186/s12909-023-04135-1#ref-CR23)], as opposed to 89.2% of respondents in our study reporting one or more welfare-related problems such as exploitation, poor remuneration and lack of accommodation at their PPAs. There was a statistically significant association between overall challenge and region of deployment (P- 0.031) and marital status (P- <0.001) as a higher proportion of corps doctors serving in the south and single corps doctors reported one or more challenges. [2](/articles/10.1186/s12909-023-04135-1#ref-CR2)]. Majority of the corps medical doctors (79.4%) were unhappy with their work in their PPAs. More than half of the respondents (59.1%) were deployed to serve in the North. The distribution of the respondents among the major tribes was Hausa (17.5%), Igbo (26.3%) and Yoruba (23.1%).

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