One of the directors of the National Youth Service Corps, Chief
Frank Ekpunobi has died after a brief illness. Ekpunobi was until his
death the director for Corp Mobilisation.
In a report by DailyTrust, it was gathered that the Directors of
the scheme alongside other management staff were scheduled to be in
Benin City, Edo State on Monday to flag-off a training of the biometrics
clearance of Corps members by the Local Government Inspectors of the
scheme in the south south but retreated due to the sudden death of the
Director.
Director General of the scheme, Brigadier General Sulaiman Kazaure
who received a team from the Health Records Registration Board of
Nigeria, Abuja lamented that the scheme was in a difficult moment trying
to get another sincere and hardworking officer like the late Director.
Kazaure said that the death came as a rude shock to the scheme and
the late director’s family as the death came after he had struggled and
reached the peak of his career in the scheme.
The team of the Board, led by its Human Resource Manager, Mallam
Abdulmalik Saidu Mohammed representing the Registrar, Alh. Mohammed
Ibrahim Mami said the board had always been coming to the late Director
to help mobilise their staff who were graduates and due for their one
year national youth service programme.
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