The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has denounced what it described as misleading information circulating in the media regarding the payment of seventy thousand naira minimum wage to corps members.
A statement signed by the Director, Information and Public Relations of the Corps, Eddy Megwa, said corps members, parents and members of the public should note that no directive has been received from the relevant sector of government responsible to raise the allowance of corps members.
The statement explained that corps members already know the approved channel and mode of communication in the scheme and should therefore ignore misleading information accordingly.
The NYSC however admonished corps members to desist from allowing mischief makers who are set to mislead Nigerians from continuing to play on their intelligence.
In 2020, the NYSC increased the allowances of corps members from nineteen thousand, eight hundred naira to thirty-three thousand naira, months after a new minimum wage bill of thirty thousand naira was signed.
Late July, President Bola Tinubu signed the minimum wage bill into law, ending months of deliberations between government authorities, labour unions, and the private sector.
