Corp members of the National Youth Service Corp are set to receive an enhanced allowance of Seventy-Seven thousand Naira (#77,000) starting from February 2025.
This followed assurances given by the Director-general of the National Youth Service Corp, Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed while speaking to the 2024 batch “C” stream 2 Corp members in Katsina State on Thursday.
The Director-general made mention that the increment has been captured in the 2025 budgetary estimate currently undergoing scrutiny in the National Assembly, and that the payment would commence when the budget is eventually passed and assented to by the president.
“This month (January) has already ended, but once the budget is passed, by next month (February), you will start receiving N77,000 instead of the usual N33,000,” he said.
Ahmed noted that the welfare of the Corp members is of paramount importance to the federal government and that corper’s would not be posted to areas bedeviled by threats of insecurity.
