Category: Youths and Youths Development

OPay Extends N1.2b 10-Year Scholarship Initiative To Unilorin Students

April 23, 2025April 23, 2025 Rextun boss No Comments

Ilorin, Nigeria — In a bold step to empower Nigeria’s future leaders, OPay, one of the nation’s leading financial institutions, has extended its ₦1.2 billion 10-Year Scholarship Initiative to students of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN). This latest milestone marks UNILORIN as the newest beneficiary of OPay’s long-term commitment to supporting education across the country….

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WAEC Introduces Candidate Unique Question Papers For 2025 WASSCE Exams

April 17, 2025April 17, 2025 Rextun boss No Comments

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the introduction of paper variations for the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), aimed at curbing examination malpractice. This new examination format, which will see candidates receive unique questions, will be implemented for the first time during the WASSCE, which is scheduled to take place…

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Why Postgraduate Students Cannot Apply For FG’s Student Loan — NELFUND

March 23, 2025March 23, 2025 Rextun boss No Comments

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has disclosed that more than 271,000 Nigerian students pursuing tertiary education have received a financial lifeline through the Federal Government’s Student Loan program since its launch in May 2024. It also clarified the eligibility criteria for the scheme, explaining why students pursuing post-graduate programmes are not qualified to apply…

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Corps Members To Receive N77,000 Allowance…as DG Unveils New Bus

January 7, 2025January 7, 2025 Rextun boss No Comments

The Director General of National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General YD Ahmed has assured Corps Members that the payment of their new monthly allowance of Seventy-SevenThousand Naira would soon commence. He stated this today in Abuja when he commissioned a 32-seater bus donated by Capital Express Insurance Company. The Director General said the bus would…

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FG Announces Date For 30-Day National Youth Confab

December 8, 2024December 8, 2024 Rextun boss No Comments

The federal government has scheduled the anticipated national youth conference for February 2025. Recall that President Tinubu, in his Independence Day address in October, revealed plans for a 30-day national youth conference aimed at tackling significant challenges confronting the nation’s youth, such as unemployment, education, and political engagement. The Confab schedule was announced on Saturday…

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Federal Government To Convene 30-day National Youth Conference

October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 Rextun boss No Comments

President Bola Tinubu has announced the convocation of a “National Youth Conference.” The Nigerian leader said the “conference will be a platform to address the diverse challenges and opportunities confronting our young people, who constitute more than 60 per cent of our population.” The president stated this on Tuesday in a televised Independence Day broadcast….

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FG Ups Corps Members Allowance To N77,000

September 25, 2024September 25, 2024 Rextun boss No Comments

The Federal Government has approved the increment of Corps Members’ monthly allowance to Seventy-Seven Thousand Naira (N77,000) with effect from July 2024. This information was made Public by a post on the official ‘x’ handle of the National Youth Service Corps headquarters @officialnyscng Wednesday evening. According to the post, “The NYSC Boss is thankful to…

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NYSC Demobilizes 54 UNICAL Graduates

August 17, 2024August 17, 2024 Rextun boss No Comments

…to face legal prosecution In its continuous efforts to prevent unqualified graduates from getting the NYSC Certificate of National Service, a total of Fifty-Four Corps Members that were illegally mobilized by the University of Calabar have been demobilized by the NYSC Management. The NYSC Director General, Brigadier General YD Ahmed disclosed this today in Abuja….

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Nigeria Lost 30% Of Teachers In Three Years – UBEC

August 16, 2024August 16, 2024 Rextun boss No Comments

The Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, Hamid Bobboyi, said the country has lost over 30 per cent of its teaching workforce in the past three (3) years without replacement. Bobboyi, who made this known during a six-day training organized by the Kano State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, in collaboration with the commission…

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NYSC Breaks Silence On Paying Corps Members N70,000 New Minimum Wage

August 11, 2024August 11, 2024 Rextun boss No Comments

The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has denounced what it described as misleading information circulating in the media regarding the payment of ₦70,000 minimum wage to corps members. A statement signed by the Director, Information and Public Relations of the Corps, Eddy Megwa, said corps members, parents and members of the public…

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