NYSC corps deployment

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has redeployed corps members from seven northern states: Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano and Yobe states. The action, it was learnt, was to save the lives of the corps members from the Boko Haram insurgents. A statement yesterday in Abuja by the NYSC management said the corps members are in the 2014 Batch ‘B’ orientation course, which will begin on August 5. The NYSC said because of logistic reasons, the orientation course would be conducted in two streams for various states. The Stream One, it said, would be conducted from August 5 to August 26 in Lagos, Ondo, Ekiti, Kwara, Oyo, Niger, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Benue, Bayelsa and Cross River states. Others are: Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Enugu, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Imo, Kebbi, Kaduna, Kogi, Katsina, Nasarawa, Ogun, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba and Zamfara states. Corps members posted to states listed in the Stream One category will undergo the orientation course in their states of deployment. The statement said the Stream Two, which is meant for the affected Northern states, has been scheduled to take place from Monday, September 1 to Monday, September 22. Corps members posted to Adamawa will have their orientation programme in Niger; those posted to Bauchi are to resume in Plateau State’s orientation camp and those posted to Borno are to go to Nasarawa State’s orientation camp. Other affected states are: Gombe, whose corps members are to serve in Benue; Jigawa corps members are to have their orientation programme in Kaduna and corps members posted to Yobe State are to resume at the FCT orientation camp.