NYSC clears air on using corps members’ February stipend to pay off bandits

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has dismissed claims that it expended the February stipend meant for corps members to pay off bandits.

Unverified reports had swirled in some quarters that the February stipend for corps members will be paid at the end of March.

The development had come amid rising cases of abductions across the country.

But reacting in a statement on Sunday, the scheme asked members of the public to disregard such reports, describing it as “fake news”.