Yanju Uwala in Abeokuta

A new shake up has emerged within the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme has Brigadier-General Shu'aibu Ibrahim as been appointed to replace Major-General Suleiman Kazaure.

Penpushing can report that this shake up was after Kazaure clocked three years in office having arrived the National Directorate Headquarters of NYSC, in 2016.

However, it was also gathered that Ibrahim is the Registrar of the Nigeria Army University (NAU), Biu, Borno State, North-Eastern Nigeria.

A senior official within the scheme says an official announcement is expected to follow soon, according to a report by a Nigerian website, Aledeh.com, disclosed on Friday night.

Penpushing also understands that Kazaure is the 17th Chief Executive Officer of the NYSC Scheme, while on the other hand, Ibrahim’s appointment automatically makes him the 18th Chief Executive Officer of the NYSC Scheme.

During Kazaure’s tenure, he expanded the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme through the establishment of more skill centres and greater stakeholders’ involvement for skill and material support.

Kazaure is a well-learned scientist with enviable academic credentials while Ibrahim, on the other hand, is a historian.

Meanwhile, the shakeup in the scheme is coming at the time President Muhammadu Buhari signed the new national minimum bill into law, a situation which will see Nigerian workers receive N30,000 monthly as against the current N18,000.

Penpushing can also gathered that Corp members across the country have expressed optimism of getting an increased allowance from the current N19,800 monthly allowance following the signing of the bill by the President.