A group of retired soldiers under the umbrella of Voluntary Discharged Soldiers 1st and 2nd quarters Retirees of the Nigerian Nigeria Army are currently protesting at the Ministry of Finance Headquarters Abuja to demand for the payment of their statutory gratuities and entitlements. SaharaReporters learnt that the angry protesters barricaded the main gate of their…
The National Association of Nigerian Students has called on the Federal Government to investigate the National Youth Service Corps over the non-payment of the newly approved N77,000 monthly allowance for corps members. NANS expressed disappointment that months after the Federal Government approved the increase from N33,000 to N77,000—effective July 2024—the NYSC has yet to implement…
More than 60 corps members serving in Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State have lamented non-payment of their August allowance by the management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) after over three months. The corps members, numbering about 68 in their WhatsApp group titled, “August Unpaid Allowance,” said more than 100 corps members…
A retired school teacher and former acting education secretary of Kogi State, Imam Idanaku has taken to social media to curse those behind the non-payment of his gratuity despite working for 35 years. Mr Idanaku who claimed he was employed in 1976 as an auxiliary teacher and retired in 2017 lamented how he served the…
