{"id":227391,"date":"2026-03-20T01:07:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nys-postpones-recruitment-exercise-to-saturday-following-public-holiday\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T01:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:07:54","slug":"kenya-nys-postpones-recruitment-exercise-to-saturday-following-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nys-postpones-recruitment-exercise-to-saturday-following-public-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: NYS Postpones Recruitment Exercise to Saturday Following Public Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The National Youth Service (NYS) has postponed its ongoing nationwide recruitment exercise by a day, moving activities initially set for Friday, March 20, to Saturday, March 21, 2026, following the declaration of a public holiday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In a public notice, NYS Commandant General James Kipsiele Tembur said the adjustment comes after Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen officially gazetted Friday as a holiday in observance of the Holy Month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;All prospective candidates are advised to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603190447.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The National Youth Service (NYS) has postponed its ongoing nationwide recruitment exercise by a day, moving activities initially set for Friday, March 20, to Saturday, March 21, 2026, following the declaration of a public holiday. In a public notice, NYS Commandant General James Kipsiele Tembur said the adjustment comes after Interior Cabinet Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":227392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,13189,5268,4688,430,257,21586,15235,5751,8960,11533,254],"class_list":["post-227391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-exercise","tag-holiday","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-nys","tag-postpones","tag-public","tag-recruitment","tag-saturday","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}