The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has reviled what it depicted as misguided information circling in the media with regards to the payment of N70,000 minimum wage to corps members.
An assertion endorsed by the Director, Information and Public Relations of the Corps, Eddy Megwa, said corps members, parents and members of the public ought to note that no directive has been gotten from the relevant sector of government responsible to raise the recompense of corps members.
The statement made sense of the fact that corps members definitely know the approved channel and method of correspondence in the scheme and ought to consequently ignore deceptive information accordingly.
The NYSC in anycase rebukes corp members to stay away from permitting mischief makers who are set to misdirect Nigerians from proceeding to play on their intelligence.
In 2020, the NYSC expanded the remittances of corps members from N19,800 to N33,000, months after a new minimum wage bill of N30,000 was inked down.
Late July, President Bola Tinubu inked down the minimum wage bill into law, bringing to an end month of dialogue between government authorities, labour unions, and the private sector.
He inked it down at the State House in Abuja days after the National Assembly National had passed the Minimum Wage Act, 2019 to expand the National Minimum Wage from N30,000 to N70,000.
“The signing of the minimum wage bill into law by His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is both a promise kept and a demonstration of his people-centric governance model,” he said in a statement. “Tinubu promised to pay a living wage to Nigerian workers during his electioneering campaigns and he has kept that promise.”
