At least 210 ex-corps members will be honour by President Bola Tinubu at the President’s National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Honours Award for 2020 to 2023 service years, reports Business Today NG.
The NYSC’s Director of Media, Mr Emeka Mgbemena, made this disclosure in a statement issued on Saturday, 26 July, 2025 in Abuja.
Mgbemena, who said the award ceremony will hold on Tuesday, 29 July, 2025 at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, said that the awardees are made up of 200 ex-corps members who excelled meritoriously in all the four cardinal programmes of the NYSC.
The programmes, he said, are Orientation Course, Primary Assignment, Community Development Service and Winding-Up/Passing-Out.
“Others that will also be honoured by the President under the NYSC Hope Alive Initiative are 10 ex-corps members that suffered various degrees of permanent disabilities while serving their fatherland,” the statement added.
The Minister of Youth Development, Mr Ayodele Olawande, Director-General of NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Olakunle Nafiu and NYSC Management were looking forward to welcoming the award beneficiaries and guests to the event, the statement further said.