The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) will begin
posting first class graduates from the polytechnics to
tertiary institutions for their primary assignment the
Director-General of NYSC, Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawumi,
has announced.
The general warned universities to desist from offering
post-graduate admission to serving corps members,
because it is a violation of the NYSC Act.
Speaking in Kaduna yesterday at the opening ceremony of
2015 Batch ‘B’ Pre-Mobilisation Workshop, the NYSC boss
said: “All First Class graduates will be posted to the
universities for their primary assignments.”
The workshop was tagged, “ICT and NYSC Mobilization
Process: Towards Eliminating Identified Challenges” , and the
general appealed to the vice-chancellors to retain serving
corp members after their NYSC programme.
NYSC’s Director of Corps Mobilisation Mr. Anthony Ani said
the aim of the workshop would be to eliminate difficulties in
mobilizing cor members by looking at the data entry used
for the exercise for the senate approved list, the list of
Approved Corps Producing Institutions and the list of
accredited courses.
Brig-Gen. Olawumi, who said the reform programmes aimed
adding value to young Nigerian graduates.
In a related development, corp members in Lagos state
have appealed to the state government to provide a more
spacious and conducive, permanent orientation camp in the
state .
The Lagos State Coordinator, Mr Cyril Akhanemhe, made the
appeal to Governor Babatunde Fashola during the swearing-
in ceremony of the 2015 Batch ‘A’ Stream I corps members
at the NYSC Orientation Camp, in Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos State.