News had spread on social media on Wednesday that Angela Igwelu, a corp member, had been shot to death by the police in Abuja.
The incident had happened a day before her passing her parade.
A Twitter user @uzorahanotu who shared more insight on the news said Angela had been rushed to the Garki Hospital, where she was refused treatment pending a police report.
Garki Hospital has released a statement saying the report is false.
The hospital does not demand a police report before attending to trauma patients, the statement said, nor does it insist on payment.
The statement also said the consultant surgeon on duty had tried hard to save Angela’s life by providing blood transfusion and limited surgery, but she passed.
The hospital has asked that the claim that they refused Angela treatment be rescinded, together with an apology, else legal action will be taken.
Brig.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has advised passing out corps members not to depend on white collar jobs.
Kazaure stated this in Abuja on Thursday as the 2016 Batch B Stream I set of corps members in the FCT completed their service.
He advised the corps members not to be idle or wait for white collar jobs but put into good use the Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development Programme (SAED) they participated in during the one year mandatory service.
“Congratulations on a successful service year. You will all agree with me that the journey was not an easy one but you have done well. We thank God for keeping us alive to witness today”, the NYSC boss said.
“I want you to consider all you have learned during the service year as something very important; you have been privileged to learn SAED; so, try as much as possible to be self-employed.
“You have been trained and equipped not just to be self employed but employers of labour; so, utilise this opportunity and justify the training you received.”
Kazaure said that the scheme could not hold the passing out ceremony for security reasons.
One thousand, nine hundred and thirty-three NYSC Batch “A” Stream Two corps members posted to the state have been trained on eleven different skills for self employment.
The training which took place at the Umunya Temporary Orientation Camp also featured exhibition of some of their hand works.
As part of activities lined-up for the two weeks orientation programme by the National Youth Service Corp, NYSC for corps members across the country, a nine day intensive training on different skills acquisition has also been introduced, such as Agro-allied, ICT, Education, Environment, automobile and beed making as well as food processing and preservation, Culture and Tourism, Power and Energy among others.
Addressing the corps members during the closing ceremony of the training, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mechanization, Processing and Export, Mr. Afam Mbanefo, said every youth should gear towards entrepreneurship, financial literacy and understand the economics of whatever they do.
Mr. Mbanefo urged corps members who choose Agriculture as their skill to form co-operative society and work with the Ministry to develop their skills further.
The State Coordinator NYSC, Mr. Oluesgun Olawale said the skill acquisition training is aimed at making the corp members self-employed, employer of labour and not job seekers.
Mr. Olawale who noted that the Scheme is partnering with Bank of Agriculture, Central Bank and others to assist the corp members with loans to the tune of one million naira to establish after their service year stated that they use their NYSC discharge certificate as collateral.
In their separate speeches, some of the corp members, Dr. Gift Nwanaga from Abia, Shiri Obadiah from Nasarawa State and Samuel Nweze from Ebonyi State who chose different enterprises under Agro-Allied as their skill, while thanking the NYSC for the training which they described as an eye opener, promised to make a living through it, employ more people and contribute to food sufficiency in the country.
The National Youth Service Corps (NYS) has withdrawn corps members from participating in the Saturday rerun election in Rivers State, just four days to the election exercise which will hold in Etche Local Government Area for the vacant House of Representatives’ seat.
While speaking during a stakeholders’ meeting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Coordinator of NYSC, Omotayo Adewoye, disclosed on Monday that the move to retrain 300 corps members for the election was due to the violence that marred the last December 10, 2016 election where he said, one corps member was killed.
Adewoye who spoke at the event organised by the State Police Command towards a peaceful election in the council, said: “I am just a month old here, when on Thursday I received a letter calling for interested corps members, 300 in numbers to participate in the Etche election.
“I am quite aware of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that exists between the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the NYSC. I am not a signatory to the MoU, so I had to approach the National Directorate Headquarters in Abuja. I equally contacted the field officer in Etche Local Government Area where the election is supposed to be held, to get the corps members ready in case we are taking part in the election.”“I am standing here to let you know that the corps members may not take part in the election because of the violence that marred the last elections in this state in which we lost one corps member,” he said.
The election will hold in 147 polling units for House of Representatives and 74 polling units for State House of Assembly seats.
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