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Nosa Khare, a year old Edo Prince was celebrated in glamour

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Here are pictures from the superlative birthday party of adorable Nosa Khare who turned a year older a week ago. His parents gave him one of the biggest birthday party fit for a Prince. He’s such a cutie. Happy birthday to him. More photos below

See what NYSC members get as allowance across the states of the nation

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In Nigeria, every year fresh graduates travel across the nation to different states in a scheme called National Youth Service Corps popularly called NYSC. The NYSC scheme was an initiative of the Yakubu Gowon military regime in 1973 to reconstruct, reconcile and rebuild the country after the Nigerian Civil war. While many Nigerians have called on successive governments to scrap the scheme as they say it has outlived its usefulness, many others have asked that the scheme should be retained. Youth corp members working on road signs in Abuja recently After three weeks in the camps where they are taken through rigorous physical routine, the corp members are then posted to a place of primary assignment. Apart from the uniform salary paid to youth corp members nationwide, state governments where the NYSC members are posted also give them some allowances. In some states, the prices of the NYSC members differ based on their course of study, with medical corp members usually fa...