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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is projected to spend approximately N307 billion on the Corp Members monthly allowance.
The Round Table says that this quantify is based on the increase in corps members’ monthly stipends from N33,000 to N77,000, as publicized by the NYSC in a statement released in September 2024.
The accession chased the approval of the new minimum wage charge, which was signed into law in May 2024.
Each year, the NYSC mobilises corps members in three batches—A, B, and C—across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The programme typically enlists between 1,200 and 1,500 corps members per camp during each orientation exercise.
On average, this results in 55,500 corps members per batch, bringing the total annual mobilisation to 333,000.
With each corps member now entitled to N77,000, the total payout for one mouthful amounts to N25.64 billion. Over a full year, the expenditure on corps members’ allowances is expected to reach N307.6 billion.
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In the 2025 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu in December 2024, the Federal Government allocated N430.7 billion to the NYSC, marking the highest budgetary provision for the scheme in five years.
Of this quantum, N372.9 billion—accounting for 86.5 percent of the total allocation—was designated for the payment of corps members’ allowances.
However, five months after the announcement of the new allowance structure on September 25, 2024, the Federal Government is yet to start payments at the revised rate.
Following the non-implementation of the increment in February, the acting Director of Press and Public Relations, Caroline Embu, interpreted that the NYSC was however awaiting the required cash encouragement.
“The cash supporting is at all events being awaited,” Embu stated in a brief response to The Punch correspondent.
Additionally, in a WhatsApp message seen by The Punch on Wednesday, the newly appointed Director-General of the NYSC, Brig. Gen. Olakunle Nafiu, reportedly assured that the new payment structure would take effect in March…CONTINUE READING>>>
