- Safiu Kehinde
New Director General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Olakunle Nafiu, has assured all Corps Members that the scheme will commence the new N77,000 monthly allowance with effect from March 2025.
Nafiu gave the assurance while interacting with Corps Members in Wuse and Garki NYSC Zonal Offices of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Thursday.
He said the Scheme and Federal Government are responsive to their welfare and would continue to ensure that their well-being is accorded maximum priority at all times.
“With effect from March, you are going to receive the sum of Seventy-Seven Thousand Naira as your monthly allowance.
NYSC is good at record keeping and l can assure you that your money will be paid. The Nation and the Scheme appreciate you”, he said.
The NYSC DG, who thanked the Corps Members for their selfless service to the nation, advised them to remain calm, dedicated, focused and disciplined.
He lauded the founding father of the Scheme for conceiving the vision, while he advocated that all and sundry should rally round the Scheme.
Nafiu added that NYSC is a beautiful Scheme that is building bridges and exposing graduate youths to learn and understand the cultural values of places outside their places of birth.
He stated further that Management would continue to instill the virtues of patriotism, discipline, self-restraint, good morals, leadership qualities and teamwork in the successive batches of Corps Members.
Speaking on behalf of her colleagues at Garki Zone, Corps Member Zaka Deborah Alheri FC/24A/5831, lauded the Director General for his conscientious efforts towards the payment of their increased monthly allowance.
Recall that the Federal Government had last year July announced the increment of the Corp members allowance from N33,000 to N77,000 months after the introduction of the new N70,000 minimum wage.
The scheme had, however, failed to execute the increment since FG’s announced as Corp members were still paid N33,000 despite the harsh economic situation in the country.