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Govt to mandate parastatals to accept corps members, addresses delay in new allowance payment

The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced that it will mandate all government agencies and parastatals to accept corps members for their mandatory one-year service.
The Minister for Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja on Monday.
The Minister stated that the ministry will send a memo to President Bola Tinubu to ensure that all government agencies and parastatals accept corps members. This comes after the Federal Government lifted the ban on posting corps members to the private sector on November 19, 2024.
Olawande mentioned that the ministry is aware of the rejection of corps members from some agencies and parastatals. He said, “Let them post them first, then we would tackle the rejection. In part of the memo that we sent to the NYSC, we clearly stated that there is no barrier. Before now, there was a barrier that corps members could not be posted to this and that. Banks come and take them. If you don’t have experience in banking, how do you want to know that you are good at accounting or whatever? We should stop lying to ourselves. And this is also part of how you should learn whatever you studied.”
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He added, “Very soon we are also going to send a memo to the President to tell any government parastatal and agency not to reject anymore. It is a process; we can’t do everything at once. The one in our capacity, we have thrown it out. So, on the barrier, we are also waiting, I know about that too. We will work, and that is why teamwork is good.”
The Minister also addressed the delay in the payment of the N77,000 increased allowance to serving corps members. He said the implementation is in process, and corps members will begin to receive the allowances “very soon”.
He said, “It is a process. When the government increases so and so, it will follow a process. We are in the process, very soon they will see it. It is not rocket science. It has been increased; nobody is saying it has not been increased. But the implementation is in process. And very soon, we are at the tip of it, it is going to start, and we will implement it perfectly.”
This development is a significant step towards ensuring that corps members are accepted in both the public and private sectors, and that they receive the necessary support and compensation for their service.
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