NYSC Assures Outgone Corps Members of Minimum Wage Arrears
Corps members who recently completed their national service will receive the arrears of the new N77,000 monthly allowance, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has confirmed.
NYSC Director-General, Brig. Gen. Olakunle Nafiu, made this known during the 2025 Batch A pre-mobilisation workshop in Abuja for heads of corps-producing institutions and other stakeholders.
The payment of the revised allowance began last month, eight months after President Bola Tinubu signed the new minimum wage bill into law.
Speaking with reporters, Nafiu assured that the government would fulfil its promise:
“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.”
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Also speaking at the event, Minister of Youth Development Ayodele Olawande stressed the need to reform the NYSC scheme in line with the administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
“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… 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,” he said.
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, represented by the Mandate Secretary for Youth and Sport, Abdullahi Suleiman, pledged continued support for the NYSC during the service year.
