Economic crunch: States suspend allowances for corps members

More than one year ago, some states have suspended payments of monthly allowance for members of the National Youth Service Corps due to the economic downturn Nigeria is experiencing, according to Punch.

Before the economic challenges, some states in Nigeria pay the corpers a stipend to augment the N19, 800 which was being given by the Federal Government.

Most states are reportedly now struggling with the economic downturn and have had to suspend the payment leaving the corpers to depend solely on the N19,800 paid by the Federal government.

The situation is more pronounced in Kwara State, where the government has not paid corps members serving in the state for more than two years now.

One of the corps members in the state has lamented that the last time they had been paid their stipend was in October 2015.

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