{"id":88478,"date":"2024-04-04T15:21:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T14:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/?p=88478"},"modified":"2024-04-04T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T14:21:20","slug":"nysc-extends-service-year-of-3-members-in-sokoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/nysc-extends-service-year-of-3-members-in-sokoto\/","title":{"rendered":"NYSC Extends Service Year of 3 Members in Sokoto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has extended the service period of three members who served in Sokoto State for absconding and misconduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NYSC Coordinator in the state, Alhaji Usman Yakubu-Yaro, disclosed this while issuing certificates to the 2023 Batch \u2018A\u2019 Stream 2 youth corps members on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News Agency of Nigeria reports that Yakubu-Yaro said NYSC has zero tolerance for truancy, and would not hesitate to punish erring youth corps members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that out of 618 youth corps members who completed the one-year mandatory service, 351 were males,<br>while 267 were females, who displayed commendable character during the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>a<a href=\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/nysc-swears-in-1409-corps-members-in-bauchi\/\">NYSC Swears in 1,409 Corp Members in Bauchi<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that a male and female have been shortlisted for the Sultan of Sokoto Meritorious Award for their outstanding<br>contributions to the development of the state during the service year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coordinator said that the scheme posted a high number of youth corps members to schools to teach, as well as<br>medical personnel in rural areas stressed that those are areas where they are mostly needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He urged the outgoing youth corps members to be good ambassadors of the scheme wherever they found themselves and<br>advised them to utilise the skills acquired during the service year, stressing that white-collar jobs are not easy to find these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He thanked the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa\u2019ad Abubakar, for the awards to the two best NYSC members in every batch posted to the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has extended the service period of three members who served in Sokoto State for absconding and misconduct. The NYSC Coordinator in the state, Alhaji Usman Yakubu-Yaro, disclosed this while issuing certificates to the 2023 Batch \u2018A\u2019 Stream 2 youth corps members on Thursday. News Agency of Nigeria reports that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":88479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19885],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v22.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NYSC Extends Service Year of 3 Members in Sokoto - Wikkitimes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has extended the service period of three members who served in Sokoto State\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/nysc-extends-service-year-of-3-members-in-sokoto\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NYSC Extends Service Year of 3 Members in Sokoto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has extended the service period of three members who served in Sokoto State\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/nysc-extends-service-year-of-3-members-in-sokoto\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Wikkitimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WikkiTimesNigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-04T14:21:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-04T14:21:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/nys.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"844\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"484\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"WikkiTimes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@wikkitimes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@wikkitimes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"WikkiTimes\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/nysc-extends-service-year-of-3-members-in-sokoto\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/nysc-extends-service-year-of-3-members-in-sokoto\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"WikkiTimes\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1aaf3947958eb8f3ef2d69385741dade\"},\"headline\":\"NYSC Extends Service Year of 3 Members in Sokoto\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-04T14:21:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-04T14:21:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/nysc-extends-service-year-of-3-members-in-sokoto\/\"},\"wordCount\":243,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/nysc-extends-service-year-of-3-members-in-sokoto\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/nys.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"North West\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/nysc-extends-service-year-of-3-members-in-sokoto\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2024\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/nysc-extends-service-year-of-3-members-in-sokoto\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wikkitimes.com\/nysc-extends-service-year-of-3-members-in-sokoto\/\",\"name\":\"NYSC Extends Service Year of 3 Members in Sokoto - 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