November 25, 2024
By Idris Buba
Barely a week after lifting the ban on restriction on posting members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to private sector organizations including banks, oil and gas companies for their primary assignments, Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, has revealed that the ministry will send a memo to President, Bola Tinubu, mandating all government agencies and parastatals accept corps members posted to them.
Olawande, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja when he was asked about the possibility of prospective corps members being rejected, despite the FG’s directive lifting the ban on posting to such organizations.
The Federal Government had on November 19, 2024, lifted the ban restricting the posting of corps members to the public sector, allowing for corps members to now be posted to private sector organisations, including banks andoil and gas companies.
READ MORE; NYSC Members Now Eligible To Serve In Banks, Others As FG Lifts Ban.
Olawande said in a memo sent to the NYSC, the ministry had directed that there should be no barriers to the posting of the corps members, adding that the ministry was aware of the rejection of corps members from some agencies and parastatals.
“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”, he said.
The minister, who also spoke on delay in the payment of the N77,000 increased allowance to serving corps members, said the implementation was in process, and that the corpers would very soon begin to receive the new minimum wage allowances.
