Minister for Labour and Employment, Chris
Ngige has dismissed reports that the
Federal Government was planning to
increase the monthly allowance for youth
corps members.
Rumours had been rife weeks ago that the
Federal Government was planning to
increase the monthly allowance from
N19,800 to N50,000, but Ngige has said there’s
no truth in it.
He said in a press briefing in Anambra that
the Federal Government wouldn’t increase
the allowance of corps members without
first coming out with a minimum wage for
the Nigerian workers.
“No recommendation has come to the
Federal Executive Council on this. The NYSC
pay is on the sliding scale; the same sliding
scale with the national minimum wage
except that there is a top up; what is
called top up on the national minimum wage
is to make for special transport allowance
for members of the NYSC,” he said.
“That is why today, the national minimum
wage is N18,000, and the top up for NYSC
members is about N1,500 making it N19,500.
This is what the Federal Government pays
each corps member.
“For now, there is no figure before us as an
increment and as a matter of fact, the last
Federal Executive Council had mandated the
Minister of Youths and Sports to liaise with
the Director General of the NYSC so that he
can be brought on board for us to work as
a team,” the minister further stated.
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