Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC),
Brig.-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, Wedneday in Kaduna disclosed that
prospective corps members with First Class degree and their counterparts
who graduated with distinction from the polytechnics, would henceforth
be posted to the universities for their primary assignment.
Gen. Olawumi while speaking at the flag-off of the 2015 Batch ‘B’
Pre-Orientation Workshop, rolled out far-reaching reforms aimed at
improving service delivery and efficiency by the NYSC, stressing that if
fully implemented, the NYSC programme would go through a seamless
process and add value to young Nigerian graduates.
“In addition, Nigerian universities have been banned from offering
post-graduate admission to serving corps members as doing so have been
in violation of the NYSC Act and brings in unwarranted distraction to
their service programme”.
At a Pre-Mobilization Workshop tagged “ICT and NYSC Mobilization
Process: Towards Eliminating Identified Challenges”, the NYSC boss
emphasised that henceforth, “all first class graduates will be posted to
the universities for their primary assignments” and appealed to the
Vice-Chancellors to retain them after their NYSC programme.
Gen. Olawumi equally promised to introduce further innovative ideas
into the NYSC operations, adding that the gains arising from the 2015
Batch ‘A’ Pre-Mobilisation Workshop led to the full implementation of
the use of ICT in registration of prospective corps members.
He pointed out that the use of ICT in that regard eliminated
registration by proxy, reduced costs, curbed avoidable accidents,
fast-tracked the payment of corps members on relocation and made
deployment and relocation easier and faster, among several other gains.
Also speaking, the Director of Corps Mobilization, Mr. Ani further
expatiated that the current pre-mobilisation workshop would enable the
NYSC to also critically resolve issues arising from poor data entry for
Senate Approved List of prospective corps members.
“The workshop would equally review the list of approved Corps
Producing Institutions and list of accredited courses of such
institutions and resolve issues and identified discrepancies arising in
the process.
“The workshop would also revisit problems associated with JAMB
numbers, wrong entry of date of birth of prospective corps members
vis-a-vis admissions into our higher institutions as well as issues of
outright manipulation of data sent to the NYSC by the Corps Producing
Institutions (CPIs)”.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Kaduna state,
Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe Musa, who represented Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, the
Kaduna state governor, stressed the need for positive re-orientation of
Nigerians, pointing out that there can not be peace, harmony and
progress ?among Nigerians which the NYSC should assist to actualise.
He applauded the decision to post first class graduate corps members
to tertiary institutions, adding that with the paucity of lecturers in
such institutions, it was an encouraging decision of the NYSC to do so.
el-Rufai equally applauded the attitude of corps members engaged in
conducting national elections and census, stressing that their level of
patriotism and sacrifices have elicited the support of his
administration.
On the decision by NYSC to use ICT to drive its mobilization process,
the governor ?explained that for the desired change in the polity to
come about, Nigerians must embrace ICT in order to move the country
forward and charged all the stakeholders to embrace the innovation.
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