NYSC Director, Chief Frank Ekpunobi is dead

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has lost its Director, Corps Mobilization, Chief Frank Ekpunobi (FNIM)

Frank Ekpunobi
This was announced on Tuesday 6th November, 2017 in a statement by the NYSC Acting Director of Press and Public Relations, Adeyemi Adenike (Mrs)

The statement reads: “With deep sense of loss, the Director General National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Suleiman Zakari Kazaure, Management and the entire NYSC Family regret to announce the transition of Chief Frank Ekpunobi FNIM, who until his demise was the Director, Corps Mobilization, National Youth Service Corps, National Directorate Headquarters, Abuja.”

It added that “Chief Frank Ekpunobi was a great asset to the scheme and will be remembered for his sense of diligence, discipline, commitment and loyalty to the organization. He will be sorely missed.”

Ekpunobi, a 1984 graduate of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, joined the corps in 1986 as Inspector 2. He had a brilliant career in the public service, rising steadily on the job, and by dint of hard work, attained the position of substantive director on January 1, 2015.

Prior to his elevation, Ekpunobi had functioned as Head of secretariat, National Governing Board; Head of Administration, office of the Director General, NYSC; state Coordinator, NYSC Secretariat, Kogi State and Coordinator, NYSC FCT Secretariat, Abuja.

As director of Corps Mobilisation who had the responsibility to mobilise, deploy and redeploying prospective and serving corps members across the country for national service, he brought commitment, favour, diligence and innovation to bear in the discharge of his onerous duties.

The statement added that Ekpunobi would be greatly remembered for his knack for hard work, humility, fairness and firmness in the course of his 31-year career in the scheme.

“He was a quintessential officer who represented the best the scheme stands for as pivot of national unity. He treated everybody equally, regardless of creed, tribe and status, the statement added.

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