Viral NYSC corps member, Raye, has set the social media on frenzy again, after announcing the acquisition of her first car. Raye, who gained fame earlier this year for her outspoken comments about President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration, took to Instagram to share the exciting news of her latest achievement. In a post filled with…
A former member of the National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, in Benue state has narrated how after about five years of completion of national service, President Bola Tinubu eventually awarded him a plague for his contribution during his one year compulsory service to the state. Prosper Okoye’s posting, indeed, to Benue State was not the…
Amnesty International (AI) has urged the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to immediately release the discharge certificate of corps member Rita Uguamaye, popularly known as “Raye,” accusing the agency of punishing her for criticising President Bola Tinubu’s administration. In a statement on Sunday, the global rights body described the NYSC’s decision as “unacceptable intolerance of…
Oluwatimileyin Ajayi, who hacked a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Salome Adaidu, to death is to die by hanging. A Federal High Court sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State, sentenced the Nigerian singer to death for the murder of Salome in Abuja suburbs. Justice Simon Aboki, who delivered the judgment, declared that Ajayi was guilty…
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has reportedly extended the service year of Rita Ushie, a corps member popularly known on Instagram as Raye, by two months. This is following a disciplinary action linked to her viral video criticizing President Bola Tinubu’s economic policies. Recall Raye trended in April 2025 after posting a video lamenting…
By Prosper Okoye The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Olakunle Oluseye Nafiu, has reaffirmed the scheme’s relevance as a unifying force in Nigeria. His comments follow renewed national debates over proposals to scrap or restructure the programme. Speaking during a visit to the Benue State NYSC orientation camp in…
The former Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Maharazu Tsiga (rtd), has been released from captivity following the payment of N250million ransom to his abductors. A credible source, who disclosed the development to LEADERSHIP during a telephone conversation, said a family member of the General Tsiga disclosed his release on Friday….
The 24-year-old NYSC member, who was beheaded by a gospel singer, Oluwatimileyin Ajayi, was not a girlfriend to the artiste. The family of the girl has come forward to set the record straight, contradicting earlier reports that suggested Ele was the singer’s girlfriend. Eliojo Salomey, a young woman from Nyanya, had left her home to…
Operatives of the Nasarawa State Police Command have arrested a suspected “Yahoo” boy, internet fraudster, identified as Ajayi for allegedly killing his girlfriend, Salome Enejo for rituals. It was reported how the suspect was caught with a fresh human head in Agwan Sarki, Orozo, a boundary area between Nasarawa State and the Federal Capital Territory,…
Full time HND graduates with part time National Diploma programmes have expressed their grievances over the proposed exclusion from the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) scheme as the registration of second stream Batch C mobilisation begins on Monday (today). The graduates who stormed the NYSC secretariat in Lagos in the early hours of Monday displayed…
