First Class Graduates to serve in Tertiary Institutions during NYSC

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Johnson Olawunmi, has said prospective corps members with first class degree and their counterparts, who graduated with distinction from the polytechnics, would henceforth be posted to tertiary institutions for their primary assignment.


The NYSC chief disclosed this in Kaduna on Wednesday at the opening ceremony of 2015 Batch 'B' Pre-Mobilization Workshop.

The Director of Corps Mobilisation, Mr. Anthony Ani, also explained that workshop would critically "look 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."

Olawunmi, who enumerated his reform programmes aimed at improving service delivery and efficiency in the NYSC, said if fully implemented, the NYSC programme would go through a seamless process and add value to young Nigerian graduates.

He also disclosed that Nigerian universities have been banned from offering post-graduate admission to serving corps members.