The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has announced an increase in the monthly allowance of corps members to N33, 000.
Before the announced increment, corps members were getting N19, 800.
Director General of NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, announced the increase during a working visit to the NYSC secretariat in Bauchi.
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According to him, the increment is in line with the new minimum wage approved by the federal government.
In a statement posted on the official Facebook page of NYSC, Ibrahim disclosed that provisions for the new allowance have been made in the 2020 budget and that “payment would commence as soon as funds are released by the appropriate authorities”.
He promised that the monthly allowance of corps members would be increased “immediately the federal government starts the payment of the new minimum wage”.
