The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has assured that corps members who recently completed the national service would be paid the arrears of the N77, 000 allowance.
Director-General of the NYSC, Brig Gen Olakunle Nafiu, gave the assurance during the Batch A 2025 pre-mobilisation workshop for heads of corps producing institutions and other stakeholders in Abuja on Thursday.
The government commenced payment of the N77,000 allowance to corps members last month eight months after President Bola Tinubu signed the minimum wage bill into law.
Speaking with reporters during the event, the DG said: “The government is quite conscious of its promis, and within the budgetary provision, the government is going to handle that. Once funds are released to us to offset the arrear, we will pay them. Even our corps members who passed out recently will benefit. Once we receive cash backing for the arrears, we are going to credit them; we have their bank details.