The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has released the names of the nine corps members that drowned in a river in Taraba State.
DAILY POST reported last week that some serving corps members drowned at River Mayo-Selbe in Gashaka Local Government Area of Taraba State.
The corps members were part of a 22-man group that embarked on a picnic near the river.
Unfortunately, they were overwhelmed by a sudden increase in the water volume and surge of the river.
A list of the nine corps members was obtained by Vanguard from NYSC Headquarters in Abuja yesterday.
The list showed that four of them were from the South-South, one from the North-West and the rest four from the South-East.
Their names are Ucheonye Nkadi, Delta; Ijeh Chile, Delta; Irorobulor Blessing, Delta; Solomon Miracle, Edo, and Adams Zipporah, Kaduna.
The others are Ojimba Matilda, Imo; Maduike Thelma, Imo; Onoduagu Arinze, Enugu, and Ezeamama Ifeanyi, Anambra.
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