{"id":79066,"date":"2025-11-20T14:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79066"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:50:06","slug":"nysc-denies-circulating-pamphlet-urging-ransom-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/20\/nysc-denies-circulating-pamphlet-urging-ransom-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"NYSC Denies Circulating Pamphlet Urging Ransom Payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has dismissed a pamphlet circulating on social media that allegedly instructs corps members to pay ransom if kidnapped, describing it as fake and unauthorised.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on its X handle on Thursday, the agency said the document does not reflect its security policy and should be disregarded.<\/p>\n<p>NYSC noted that while a consultant submitted a similar proposal in 2021, it was never approved.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme reassured corps members and the public of its commitment to their safety, emphasizing ongoing collaboration with security agencies to strengthen protection measures.<\/p>\n<p>The pamphlet resurfaced amid rising concerns over kidnappings, including recent incidents in Kwara State.<\/p>\n<p>NYSC stressed that the circulation of the document does not represent its official stance on the safety of staff or corps members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has dismissed a pamphlet circulating on social media that allegedly instructs corps members to pay ransom if kidnapped, describing it as fake and unauthorised. In a statement on its X handle on Thursday, the agency said the document does not reflect its security policy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-79066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79066","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79069,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79066\/revisions\/79069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}