{"id":232998,"date":"2026-05-12T04:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-2027-inec-seeks-1-4m-corps-members-for-polls\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:01:35","slug":"nigeria-2027-inec-seeks-1-4m-corps-members-for-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-2027-inec-seeks-1-4m-corps-members-for-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 2027 &#8211; INEC Seeks 1.4m Corps Members for Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Abuja \u2014 The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared that it cannot conduct elections in Nigeria without the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), formally requesting the deployment of over 1.4 million corps members for the 2027 general election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">INEC Chairman Professor Joash Amupitan made the disclosure on Monday when he paid a courtesy visit to NYSC Director-General Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu at the corps&#8217; headquarters, Yakubu Gowon House, in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">&#8220;You provide the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605110775.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuja \u2014 The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared that it cannot conduct elections in Nigeria without the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), formally requesting the deployment of over 1.4 million corps members for the 2027 general election. INEC Chairman Professor Joash Amupitan made the disclosure on Monday when he paid a courtesy visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232999,"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":[249],"tags":[43745,258,256,13450,17258,4326,257,4687,393,8059,8111,254],"class_list":["post-232998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-1-4m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corps","tag-inec","tag-members","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-polls","tag-seeks","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\/232998","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}