{"id":72864,"date":"2025-08-12T11:56:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72864"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:56:39","slug":"certificate-or-not-im-doing-fine-corps-member-ushie-rita-tells-nysc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/12\/certificate-or-not-im-doing-fine-corps-member-ushie-rita-tells-nysc\/","title":{"rendered":"Certificate or Not, I\u2019m Doing Fine, Corps Member, Ushie Rita Tells NYSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A serving corps member in Lagos State, Ushie Rita (code: LA\/24B\/8325), says she is no longer interested in obtaining her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), certificate, insisting her life remains \u201cgreat\u201d without it.<\/p>\n<p>Rita\u2019s comments, made during a TikTok live session, come amid a dispute with the NYSC over its decision to withhold her Certificate of National Service.<\/p>\n<p>She accused the scheme of \u201cacting unshakeable\u201d while allegedly breaking its own rules. \u201cI didn\u2019t have that certificate before, yet my life is great\u2026 I\u2019m no longer interested,\u201d she said, refusing to say whether she would comply with the two-month extension imposed on her.<\/p>\n<p>The NYSC has dismissed claims that Rita was being punished for criticising the government, describing such reports as \u201centirely unfounded and false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It said her certificate was withheld for \u201cvalid disciplinary reasons\u201d and that she is among 131 corps members penalised for various offences.<\/p>\n<p>According to the scheme, her service year was extended due to her failure to attend the biometric clearance exercise in April 2025, a breach of its bye-laws.<\/p>\n<p>The row has drawn attention online, fuelled by the resurfacing of a March 2025 video in which Rita criticised the federal government over rising living costs, calling President Bola Ahmed Tinubu a \u201cterrible president\u201d and urging Nigerians to speak out against economic hardship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata A serving corps member in Lagos State, Ushie Rita (code: LA\/24B\/8325), says she is no longer interested in obtaining her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), certificate, insisting her life remains \u201cgreat\u201d without it. Rita\u2019s comments, made during a TikTok live session, come amid a dispute with the NYSC over its decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72866,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72864\/revisions\/72866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}