Members of the National Youth Service Corps are no longer paid by their host States In some state in Nigeria as government blaimed it on economic crunch.
For some years now some states are no longer paying the allowances, state like Kwara state, stopped paying corps members over two years ago.
Before now, the states paid corps members posted to their domains a stipend to augment the N19,800 allowance paid by the Federal Government.
Corps members in Bauchi State have resorted to organising extra-mural classes for primary and secondary school pupils to augment their allowance as the state government have stopped paying them.
[quote_box_center]“We have not been paid a dime since November last year. What we were told at the beginning was that the government would pay us after the end of our service year, but we later learnt that the promise was just fake,” said Mayowa, a corps member.[/quote_box_center]
“No explanation has been given as to why we have not been paid our allowances.
