One hundred and sixty four winners of the 2012, 2013 and
2014 batches of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Presidential award were
Monday morning offered automatic employment by President Goodluck Jonathan.
In a ceremony to confer the award on the winners, President Jonathan
also announced automatic scholarship for any of the 164 award winners that wish
to further his or her education.
A total of N23.5 million cash was also raised for nine corp
members who sustained various degrees of injuries during their service years.
N5 million was donated by Ibeto Group to one of the nine
injured corpers who could not attend the event because of her injury.
While Akwa Ibom State governor, Godwill Akpabio donated N5
million to the nine corpers, Heritage Bank donated N1.5 million to each of the
nine corpers.
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