NYSC

Security agencies rescue 20 prospective NYSC corps members abducted in Imo State after six days, with victims receiving medical attention. Twenty prospective NYSC corps members abducted in Imo State have been rescued by security agencies after six days in captivity. The victims were rescued at about 4:28pm on Wednesday at...

Afenifere urges the federal government to reform NYSC deployment rules after 20 prospective corps members were abducted in Imo. Afenifere has expressed dismay over the abduction of 20 prospective National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members travelling from Ibadan to their places of primary assignment. The group urged the federal government...

The kidnappers of the prospective National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members abducted in two buses along the Owerri-Onitsha Road in Umunoha community of Mbaitoli Local Government Area (LGA) of Imo State last Thursday have given the parents of the victims a 24-hour ultimatum to pay N50million ransom for each victim,...

The risks confronting graduates travelling to NYSC camps are renewing debate over security, deployment and the scheme’s national-unity mission. For thousands of Nigerian graduates, NYSC begins long before they put on the khaki. It begins with a journey, one that can come with questions about whether they will arrive safely....