The governor of Adamawa state, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has increased the monthly allowance of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members in the state to ₦10,000 (ten thousand naira).
The governor announced the gesture on Tuesday, during the 2023 swearing-in ceremony of members of the Batch C Stream 2 deployment, comprising 1,340 corps members posted to the state.
The governor said the measure is part of the magnanimity of his administration to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal.
He said that he has also directed essential supplies of food items to the youth corpers in the state for a memorable orientation experience.
The fresh N10,000 monthly offer will be in addition to what the youth corps members get from the Federal Government through the scheme, as well as the N20,000 service-long bonus that the state government currently gives to every youth corps member upon completing the service year.
The payment of the additional allowance will commence in January 2024.
