- Yusuf Ege Olaide, a member of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has passed away
- Olaide with registration number KB/16 A/379 was serving in Kebbi state
Yusuf Ege Olaide, a member of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) with registration number KB/16 A/379 serving in Kebbi state has passed away.
NAIJ.com gathered that Alhaji Lawal Turawa, the state coordinator, stated this on Thursday, May 25, during the swearing in ceremony on Batch A stream I at the NYSC permanent camp, Dakingeri.
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The coordinator commended the state government for sending a delegation to Lagos state to condole with the family.
He said: “This was in additional to a kind approval of a sum of N500,000 for the family of the deceases to facilitate the funeral rites.”
Turawa disclosed that 2,200 new corps members of batch A stream 1 have been posted to the state and duly registered in the camp, stressing that they have been responding well to the orientation exercise in the camp.
Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, who was represented by a Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health, Alhaji Garba Hussain Munyadi charged the new corps members to learn vocational skills during their staying in the camp.
Earlier, NAIJ.com reported that Brigadier Sulaiman Zakari Kazaure, the Director-General of the NYSC, announced that there might be an increase in corps members' allowances.
However, he made it clear that any increase in the allowance of Corps members will be determined by the introduction of a new minimum wage for workers.
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He said that the scheme was aware that the allowance received by corps members was small, especially with the current economic downturn in the country.
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