About forty Members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have been punished for absconding from their places of primary assignments in Nasarawa State.
The affected Corps Members were punished with service extension, the NYSC Coordinator, Abdullahi Jikamshi, announced.
Jikamshi said they were punished for failing to internalise the spirit and discipline of the scheme.
He also said that a total of 1,853 corps members who served the national meritoriously in the state were presented their certificates of national service.
