Nigeria’s Youth Service Scheme, NYSC Bans Corps Members From Posting Camp Activities On Social Media After SaharaReporters’ Reports On Poor Feeding

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Yusha’u Ahmed has banned corps members undergoing their one-year mandatory national service from sharing orientation camp activities on social media.

The NYSC DG who issued the ban on Sunday while addressing the 2024 Batch A Stream 1 corps members at the NYSC Ogun State Permanent Orientation Camp, Sagamu, said that moments captured by corps members during their three weeks of orientation exercise on camp must only be for their consumption.

Ahmed further warned the corps members against what he described as unnecessary journeys, particularly, unauthorised ones.

He urged them to take their safety more seriously.

 

 

The ban comes after SaharaReporters reported on Friday that corps members at the Akwa State Orientation Camp of the NYSC raised the alarm that the State Coordinator of the Scheme, Ekwe N. I. Chinyere, collected their phone numbers and threatened to punish them.

This followed a report by SaharaReporters on how the corps members had lamented that they were being poorly fed.

 

SaharaReporters on Thursday reported that some of the corps members lamented the poor feeding in camp despite the Nigerian government’s increment of their feeding allowance.

The aggrieved corps members told SaharaReporters that the state coordinator and other officials allegedly forced bad meals on them, necessitating most of them to spend their money on food.

 

 

After SaharaReporters’ story, a source told the newspaper that the State Coordinator, Chinyere, collected all the corps members’ phone numbers and set up a committee of about 25 corps members to counter the report.

On Monday, The PUNCH quoted the DG, who also urged the corps members to make the best of their one-year national service, as saying, “Don’t allow your service year to go idle without utilising it. No single hour should go unproductive. You must continue to do something in line with your goals.

“You are not expected to post camp activities on social media, whatever is recorded should be for your personal consumption.

“You must also be wary of embarking on unnecessary and unauthorised journeys, take personal security seriously.”

He advised the corps members to key into the NYSC Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development Programme to be wealth creators.

 

 

The DG said the scheme is collaborating with several financial institutions such as Bank of Industry, Access Bank, Wema Bank, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) Foundation and others, to give corps members interest-free loans and grants.