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Nigeria: NYSC, Mercy Corps Partner On Adolescent Girls' Education

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mercy Corps, a global humanitarian agency towards the implementation of a project tagged: "Educating Nigerian Girls in New Enterprises (ENGINE)". The partnership is expected to involve the engagement of female Corps members to deliver extra hours of classes to girls in schools that have been selected for the programme in the affected states. At the occasion, the NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi, said the presence of the scheme in all the nooks and crannies of the country makes it an attractive implementation partner for projects of such nature. Olawumi, who stressed that the issues of development should not be left to the government alone, commended the Mercy Corps for its good works in Nigeria. The director-general further remarked that partnering with Mercy Corps would enhance the NYSC Scheme's visibility and also help the Corps in achieving its goals. ...

NYSC reduces cost of online registration

According to the punch newspaper. After several months of deliberations, the National Youth Service Corps has bowed to public demand by reducing the cost of online registration for prospective corps members. This came as it noted that henceforth graduates of Medicine who have yet to complete their housemanship and register with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria would not take part in the one-year service scheme. The organisation’s decision to reduce the online fee was reached during the NYSC’s stakeholders conference in Abuja, while its Director of Press and Public Relations, Mrs. Bose Aderibigbe, announced the housemanship registration exercise in a statement on Monday. The NYSC is however silent on the amount the prospective corps would pay. The service also agreed that conscious efforts should be made to carry out more sensitisation on the online registration to the potential users. The online registration, it added, would facilitate easy printing of call-u...

Learn Africa to reward best NECO candidates

The Learn Africa Education Development Foundation has concluded plans to honour outstanding candidates in this year’s Learn Africa-NECO Excellence Awards. LAEDF is the corporate social responsibility arm of Learn Africa Plc. According to the foundation,the institution of the Learn Africa-NECO Excellence Awards is in furtherance of the company’s commitment to the promotion of academic excellence. The company made this known in a statement obtained by our correspondent on Thursday. According to the statement, the presentation of the awards will take place between November 24 and 28. It explained that there were two categories of awards: national and state. The national awards , the statement added,would go to the overall best three candidates – Nder Samuel of the Vaatia College, Makurdi, Benue State (first); Adesokan Sakirudeen and Raji Quadri both of the St. Francis Catholic Secondary School, Idimu, Lagos State, who came second and third respectively. “As ...

No regrets my father died for ASUU – Iyayi’s son

A year after the death of a former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Festus Iyayi, some of the issues he fought for resurrect, ALEXANDER OKERE and SODIQ OYELEKE report For the family of the late former Academic Staff Union of the Universities, Festus Iyayi, there remains a big gap created by his demise. But while life for members of the family may never be the same again, Omole Iyayi, the third child of the activist, says they have no regrets as they believe he died for a worthy cause – that of ASUU and nation’s education. “He is no longer there for us. We no longer spend good time together with him at the weekends and favourite spots in Benin metropolis. Yet, we have no regrets. It was part of what made (him) Festus Iyayi. I have no regrets at all and nobody in my family has any,” Omole, a first class degree holder and lecturer at the University of Benin, told our correspondent on the commemoration of the one-year anniversary of his...

Sanusi, meet President Jonathan

Sanusi, ex-CBN boss, meets Jonathan. The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, on Thursday paid a courtesy visit to President Goodluck Jonathan.The erstwhile governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria met behind closed doors with the President.He did not speak with journalists at the end of the parley.
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Responsibility of Sin

Ezekiel 18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. Shared via Bible KJV http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gyc.ace.kjv