{"id":72918,"date":"2025-08-12T12:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72918"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:17:53","slug":"sowore-leads-protest-at-nysc-headquarters-over-withheld-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/12\/sowore-leads-protest-at-nysc-headquarters-over-withheld-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowore Leads Protest at NYSC Headquarters Over Withheld Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Human rights activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore on Tuesday led a protest at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), headquarters in Maitama, Abuja, demanding the release of a discharge certificate for Ushie Rita Uguamaye, popularly known as \u201cRaye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raye, a female corps member, is said to have completed all requirements for the mandatory one-year national service but has yet to receive her certificate.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore was joined by other activists, including human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong, who represents Raye in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The protest followed Sowore\u2019s earlier social media post vowing to fight for justice on her behalf.<\/p>\n<p>The activists marched to the NYSC headquarters, insisting that the delay was unjust and calling for immediate issuance of the certificate.<\/p>\n<p>They stressed that the NYSC must fulfill its obligation without further delay, noting that the discharge certificate is vital for Raye\u2019s future opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Human rights activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore on Tuesday led a protest at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), headquarters in Maitama, Abuja, demanding the release of a discharge certificate for Ushie Rita Uguamaye, popularly known as \u201cRaye.\u201d Raye, a female corps member, is said to have completed all requirements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72918","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\/72918","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=72918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72920,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72918\/revisions\/72920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}