Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC),
Brigadier Sulaiman Zakari Kazaure, has made it clear that any increase
in the allowance of Corps members will be determined by the introduction
of a new minimum wage for workers.
The DG stated this in Minna, the Niger State capital, while
answering questions from newsmen on Thursday, following the swearing-in
of Batch A Stream 1 of the 2017 orientation programme.
“The NYSC allowance is determined by the national minimum wage. We
are waiting on the government to take a decision on the new wage
structure before we know what to do,” he said.
He said the scheme was aware that the allowance received by corps
members was small, especially with the current economic downturn in the
country.
Kazaure explained that that was why state governments were urged to
augment the stipend with N5,000 monthly for each youth corps member.