NYSC members to get pay raise of feeding allowance

Members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) will get a raise in their feeding allowance as part of efforts to ease the burden caused by removal of subsidy on petrol.

The Kaduna State coordinator of NYSC, Hassan Taura, said the Federal Government has upwardly reviewed their feeding allowance.

The coordinator, while fielding questions from journalists, after swearing in the 2023 Batch ‘B’ Stream ‘2’ orientation course, did not specifically disclose which of the allowances was reviewed.

“The Federal Government, in its wisdom, has reviewed the feeding allowance of the corps members,” he said, while responding to the plans to cushion the corps members’ hardship.

Promising to prioritise corps members’ welfare in his state, he said: “I told them (corps members) I am going to ensure their food is of good quality and quantity. I told them I will ensure that they won’t spend their money in the camp market. This is the promise I made to them and I am fulfilling them.

“I am going to feed them in such a way that they will not spend from their pocket.

“They don’t even have the money; so, it is our duty to ensure we feed them well.”

On arrangements by the state government and private organisations to ensure timely payment of stipends of corps members, he said: “In line with our operations of the monthly stipend we pay corps members, we expect their employers, be it state government or private organisations, to pay them some stipend in addition to what Federal Government gives them.”