The orientation exercise for the 2018 Batch 'A' Corps Members is ongoing across the country. The Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. SZ Kazaure in his message to the Corps members congratulated them on their successful completion of their academic pursuit and reminded them that the scheme was aimed at preparing them for the task of nation building.

Dozens of children cheer at the Baptist Nursery and Primary School compound in Bode-Ijaiye suburb of Abeokuta city, the capital of Ogun state, as their friends try to outpace each other on a 100-metre dash in a dusty field. Ogun state inter-school football and track-and-field competitions are just around the corner, and teachers want to prepare the children physically and mentally for the task ahead.

Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede on Thursday confirmed the suspension of Professor Richard Akindele over the case of sex for mark scandal involving him (Akindele) and one of the students of the university, Miss Monica Osetobe Osagie, a postgraduate student on Master of Business Administration.

The United Nations Children’s Fund in collaboration with Qatar Foundation, says 501,749 children will benefit from its “Educate A Child’’ Cash Transfer Intervention Project. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the beneficiaries are drawn from four states: Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara. The UNICEF’s Chief of Field Office in Sokoto, Muhameden Fall, made the disclosure at the launch of cash transfer disbursement in Maiyama Local Government Area of Kebbi on Thursday.

The management of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has announced that orientation course for the 2018 Batch 'A' service year would commence on April 19, 2018 across the country. The scheme made this known in a post on its Facebook and Twitter handle. The post read
“Congratulations for a successful mobilisation into the NYSC. You are adviced to read the instructions on your call-up letters and adhere to it.

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says it will include farming and crop production as part of the one year primary assignment for corps members from the next service year.

Mr Bello Ballama, the NYSC FCT Coordinator, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday.

He said that the move was to help address corps rejection by some corps employers through the engagement of more corps members in all aspects of farming and crop production.