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President Bola Tinubu is set to honour no fewer than 210 ex-corps members at the President’s National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Honours Award for 2020 to 2023 service years.
This was disclosed in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja by NYSC’s Director of Media, Mr Emeka Mgbemena.
The statement said the award ceremony will hold on Tuesday at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa.
Mgbemena said that the awardees are made up of 200 ex-corps members who excelled meritoriously in all the four cardinal programmes of the NYSC.
The programmes, he said, are Orientation Course, Primary Assignment, Community Development Service and Winding-Up/Passing-Out.
“Others that will also be honoured by the President under the NYSC Hope Alive Initiative are 10 ex-corps members that suffered various degrees of permanent disabilities while serving their fatherland,” the statement added.
The Minister of Youth Development, Mr Ayodele Olawande, Director-General of NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Olakunle Nafiu and NYSC Management were looking forward to welcoming the award beneficiaries and guests to the event, the statement further said.
In other news, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced that Nigeria received $20.9 billion in diaspora remittances through official channels in 2024, an amount that exceeds the country’s total foreign direct investment by more than four times.
Speaking during the 2025 National Diaspora Day celebration on Friday night in Abuja, themed “Optimizing Formidable Diaspora Potentials for National Development and Growth,” the President, represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, described the remittance record as commendable and urged Nigerians abroad to continue investing in the country’s future.
