BREAKING: Tinubu Government Fails To Pay NYSC Members New N77,000 Allowance Despite Assurances

Despite promises by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to increase corps members’ monthly allowance to N77,000 starting February 2025, the Tinubu-led Nigerian government has continued to pay the old N33,000 stipend, SaharaReporters has learnt.     Multiple corps members confirmed receiving their February allowance on Friday night, only to find out that it remained unchanged…

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A Cruel Hoax: the Political Economy of Anti-immigration

Photograph Source: Travis Wise – CC BY 2.0 Deporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if voters have been sufficiently cultivated by years of demonizing and scapegoating them. For its victims, the cruelties involved are horrific. Yet such deportation makes little sense economically. It represents a nationally self-destructive program based on a faulty grasp…

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