Borno approves payment of over 148 million naira corpers allowance.

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno has approved the payment of 148.8 million naira to offset backlogs of arrears and monthly allowances of various batches of serving and past corps members in the state.

An official of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in the state, Mr Christopher Godwin-Akaba, made this known in a statement in Maiduguri today.

Godwin-Akaba said that the breakdown of the allowance include; six months outstanding arrears for 2019 batch a corps members totalling n38.8 million, nine months outstanding arrears of 2019 batch B stream I corps members totalling N41 million.

He said that part of the money would be used to offsets June and July 2020 allowances of 2019 batch b stream II corps members.