Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, has hinted that the Federal government will increase the monthly allowance of the Corps members once the ongoing negotiations on the new minimum wage are completed.

Ahmed also warned the corp members against posting camp activities on social media, saying that three corpers have just been expelled from the camp for flouting this camp rule.

The DG disclosed this on Saturday while addressing 2762 corp members of Batch B, Stream One, at Ogun State NYSC Orientation Camp, Sagamu.

Ahmed congratulated the individuals for making it this far to the orientation camp, as many of their colleagues had not been so lucky academically to have the privilege of being called a corp member.

He urged them to take seriously the regimented training being given at the camp, maintaining that, though the training might be hard they have been designed to sharpen their leadership skills so as to be better Nigerians and be more useful to the society.

Ahmed said, “Let me also remind you of the camp rules that you are not allowed to post the camp activities online or on social media, three of your colleagues elsewhere were found breaking these rules and posting camp activities on social media, and they have decamped

Night journeys are also not allowed; in fact, unnecessary journeys should be avoided because we have lost many corpers to such in the past. We don’t want that again, even if you must travel, you must have taken your permission and found somewhere to sleep once it is 6pm.

“And for your allowance, don’t worry, as soon as the ongoing negotiations on the minimum wage are concluded, you can be so sure that your allowance too will definitely go up. There is no way the government will forget you because you are really special”. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

The DG who said he was highly impressed with the military skills displayed by the parade guard mounted for him by the corpers, urged the youths to consider a career in the military.

He appealed to the corpers to also take their security very seriously, adding that though the camp has provided water-tight security the onus also rests on the corp members not to go to where they are not supposed to be so as not to endanger themselves.

Ahmed also urged the corpers to respect the culture of the community they will be posted to for their primary assignment and and discharge their duties responsibly as worthy ambassadors of the 51-year-old scheme.

He thereafter donated four cows for the feeding of the corpers and this attracted loud cheering from the corpers.

Welcoming the DG, the Ogun State Coordinator of NYSC, Mrs Olayinka Nasamu, said that the camp, which opened on Wednesday, June 26, has a total of 2762 corpers comprising of 922 males and 1423 females.

Nasamu said that as part of a deliberate strategy to prevent the outbreak of cholera in the camp, hand washing stations had been provided at the entrance of the camp and some other parts of the camp where the corpers have been instructed to wash their hands and use sanitisers while also ensuring that the camp is kept clean.

She said that corpers have also participated in all the camp programmes, particularly, Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development, which aims at equipping the corpers with the skills to become job creators.

Nasamu listed the sinking of additional boreholes, provision of additional water reservoirs, inadequate bunks and mattresses, lack of functional ambulance as well as provision of proper food store as needs of the orientation camp.

Blessing Okonkwo, a 24-year-old Nigerian woman, has made a shocking confession.

The woman confessed to selling her three-year old sibling, Friday Okonkwo at the cost of N410,000 in Adamawa State, SaharaReporters has learnt.

Okonkwo, who blamed her action on the biting hardship in the country, was said to have tricked her mother and taken the kid on false pretence of enrolling him in a school in the city of Mubi, where she lived, some 40 kilometers away.

She however sold him at a price of N410,000 to a willing buyer, one Efunaya Nabufe, who trafficked him to Enugu city in the southeastern state of Enugu.

“I used the proceed of the crime to buy a grinding machine so I can start a business and also gave my boyfriend N200,000 to buy items required for our tradition wedding,” Blessing said.

Narrating how it happened, the mother of the victim, Hauwa Lawan who lives in Rimirgo in the Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State has expressed dismay, wondering how her own daughter could sell her sibling to a total stranger.

She said, “She visited some time last year and lied to me that she would be taking her kid brother to enroll him in a school in the city, seeing there’s no good school in our village.

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“Ever since she took away the boy I never heard from him, because any time I called to hear his voice she kept telling me one lie or the other for one year now. I got tired of asking and since I least suspected my own daughter could do this to me, I didn’t raise any alarm.

“As God will have it, she took a proposed husband home to her father in the southeast, the father demanded to know the whereabouts of his child first before attending to her marriage proposal.

“She then lied to him that the kid was dead, but the father consulted an oracle and was told the child was alive. He then threatened her and she opened up and told him the truth; that he was living with a woman in Enugu.

“When her father informed me, I reported the matter to the police who swiftly arrested her and her accomplice, the child trafficker, one Efunaya Nabufe.”

When contacted on Friday, the spokesperson for the police in Adamawa State, SP Suleiman Nguroje, confirmed the arrest of Okonkwo and Nabufe in connection to the crime.

He said, “On July 2, 2024, one Hauwa Lawan, a resident of Rimirgo in the Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State, reported to the Adamawa State Police Command that her 3-year old son, Friday Okonkwo was stolen.

“Immediately the Commissioner of Police, Dankombo Morris, ordered the Divisional Police Officer in Mubi South, SP Aaron Ezra to commence investigation and as God would have it two suspects, Blessing Friday, 24 and Efunaya Nabufe, 35 were apprehended in connection to the crime.

“As it stands, the CP has directed that discreet investigation be conducted after which all suspects, including the two who are giving useful information would be charged to court according to the extant laws of the land,” Nguroje said.

Nigeria has been hit by a nationwide power outage as the national grid experienced system collapse again on Saturday.

Emeka Ezeh, the Head, Corporate of Communications at Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, disclosed this in a notice on Saturday.

According to the notice, the National Grid Collapse occurred around 15:09 hours on Saturday.

Consequently, bulk electricity supply from the Transmission Company of Nigeria National Control Centre has been disrupted.

EEDC said the situation is the reason for the loss of power supply in the Southeast states – Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo.

“This has resulted in the loss of supply currently being experienced across the network.

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“Due to this development, all our interface TCN stations are out of supply, and we are unable to provide services to our customers in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo states.

“We are on standby awaiting detailed information of the collapse and restoration of supply from the National Control Centre (NCC), Osogbo,” the notice reads.

The development comes days after TCN announced that electricity generation declined to 4,723.30 megawatts peak on July 4, 2024, compared to 4800mw in May.

In 2024 alone, Nigeria has recorded at least three system collapses. System collapse has occurred about 227 times in the last 14 years, according to TCN.

This comes amid the April 3 and July 1 2024 electricity tariff hike for Band A customers, who are supposed to get 20-24 hours of power supply.

The electricity tariff for Band A rose to N206.80 per kilowatt-hour from N66 kWh.