FG Yet To Pay NYSC Members New N77,000 Monthly Allowance
The Federal Government has yet to fulfill its promise of paying National Youth Corps members the increased monthly allowance of N77,000, announced nearly six months ago to alleviate financial challenges faced by corps members nationwide.
The Federal Government is yet to pay serving members of the National Youth Corps the new monthly allowance of N77,000, nearly six months after it made the promise.
NYSC is a compulsory one-year mandatory national service scheme set up during Yakubu Gowon's regime as Military Head of State in 1973 for every graduates from the university and their Higher National Diploma counterparts below the age of 30.
However, following severe financial pains suffered by NYSC members across the country, the Federal Government on September 25, 2024, announced the increase in the allowance of corps members from N33, 000 to N77, 000 with effect from July this year.
The announcement was made by the management of the NYSC on behalf of the government, noting that President Bola Tinubu had approved the new allowance of N77,000, with effect from July, this year.
However, the government is yet to fulfill its promise despite the increase in cost of transportation, food and amid other economic hardships in the country.
Most corps members had last October, taken to the social media to protest the non-payment of the new allowance, otherwise known as "alawee."
According to serving members of the NYSC, they had been receiving same alerts of N33,000 as monthly allowance up to November and are likely to receive same N33,000 for December even as the old "allowed" cannot feed them for one week, not to talk about transportation and other necessities like soap among others. ,
"We have been expecting to receive alerts for the new allowance of N77,000 with the stress since the announcement made by NYSC management last September that the payment would start in July.
"We have been expecting to receive alerts for the new allowance of N77,000 with the stress since the announcement made by NYSC management last September that the payment would start in July.
The NYSC's Director of Public Affairs, Abuja, Caro Lambu, told the BBC Pidgin two months ago that the new corps members would still receive their money, despite the delay.
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