Written by Jude Owuamanam, Tunde
Odesola, Success Nwogu and Ozioma
Ubabukoh

[b]The Minister of Youth Development, Mallam
Bolaji Abdullahi, has ordered the
management of the National Youth Service
Corps to stop posting new corps members
to Borno and Yobe states.
A statement by his Senior Assistant on
Media, Mr. Julius Ogunro, on Thursday in
Abuja, said the minister had directed that no
new corps members under the current
Batch ‘C’ should be posted to the two states,
while those already posted there would be
redeployed to Benue and Nasarawa states
for orientation.
He, however, promised that corps members
would be posted to all states of the
federation except Borno, as soon as they
concluded their orientation programme in
Benue and Nasarawa respectively.
The statement said the minister’s directive
was sequel to the ongoing controversy and
confusion over the fate of would-be corps
members originally posted to Borno and
Yobe states.
In Plateau State, Governor Jonah Jang has
asked community leaders, as hosts of youth
corps members, to ensure their safety while
serving in their domain.
The governor said this would ensure that
the corps members gave their best during
the service and return to their families in
good health at the end of the service year.
Jang made this appeal on Thursday at the
swearing-in ceremony of the 2011 Batch C
corps members posted to the state.
In a related development, the NYSC in Enugu
State on Thursday said the state
government had concluded arrangement
for perimeter fencing of the orientation
camp and evacuation of indigenes living in
the premises.
The NYSC State Coordinator in Enugu, Joshua
Olowookere, said the development was to
ensure the security of corps members who
were currently in camp on orientation
exercise.
Meanwhile, the Kwara State Coordinator,
NYSC, Mrs. Ezinne Ezekwe, has said 2,499
corps members have registered for the
2011 Batch C youth service in the state.
Ezekwe, who spoke at the NYSC Orientation
Camp, Yikpata, on Thursday, added that 500
corps members, out of this number, were
posted from Lagos orientation camp only.
In Osun State, Governor Rauf Aregbesola
has condemned the killing of corps
members in some parts of the country.
Aregbesola, who described the killings of
the corps members as "highly disturbing,"
said the trend must be checked urgently.
Represented by his deputy, Mrs. Titilayo
Laoye-Tomori, at the NYSC Orientation Camp
in Ede, Aregbesola urged the new corps
members to serve Nigeria with their talents
and skills, stressing that the task to build
Nigeria was a collective responsibility.
A female corps member posted to Oyo State
for the 2011 Batch C NYSC programme gave
birth to a baby on Tuesday as the camp
opened.
Disclosing this at the orientation camp,
Iseyin, on Thursday during the swearing-in
ceremony of 2,606 corps members, the Oyo
State Coordinator, Sekinat Idowu, said the
mother Rhoda Idayat Iliya, an HND graduate
of the College of Health Technology, Jos,
Plateau State and child were doing well in
the hospital.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria,
Idowu said a total 1,307 males and 1,299
females had registered at the camp as at
midnight on Wednesday[/b]


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