The Director-General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig Gen Olakunle Nafiu, has disclosed that corps members who recently completed the national service would be paid the arrears of the N77,000 allowance.
Nafiu made this known during the Batch A 2025 pre-mobilisation workshop for heads of corps producing institutions and other stakeholders on Thursday in Abuja.
The government initiated the payment of the N77,000 allowance last month, following an eight-month delay after President Bola Tinubu signed the minimum wage bill into law.
While speaking to the press at the event, the NYSC Director-General said: “The government is quite conscious of its promise and within the budgetary provision, the government is going to handle that. Once funds are released to us to offset the arrears we will pay them. Even our Corps members that passed out recently will benefit. Once we receive cash backing for the arrears we are going to credit them; we have their bank details. Nigerians should not fret about that because the government is both responsible and responsive to their needs.”
Ayodele Olawande, the Minister of Youth Development, emphasized the need for a reform of the NYSC scheme to align with the Renewed Hope Agenda of the current administration.
Olawande remarked: “I remember when the scheme was created in 1973. It was for a purpose. Everything since then has changed. We must therefore reform the scheme to meet our changing society. As Nigeria improves, we must continue to improve the scheme to meet demands.
“We must address the gaps of how the scheme will prepare our graduates for the job market. Let us reshape the process to meet the demands of the labour market. Reforming the NYSC mobilisation is not the job of the government alone. It is a collaborative effort. We can build an NYSC that is adaptive, inclusive and will serve our future generations.”
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