The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has warned foreign institutions against mobilising unqualified persons to participate in National Service.
The Director-General of NYSC, General Yusha’u Ahmed stated this during the 3rd meeting of management with registrars of foreign corps producing institutions in Abuja with the theme; “Tackling the Emerging Challenges in Mobilization of Foreign-Trained Graduates For Effective National Service.”
He said the NYSC programme aims at remodelling the Nigerian youths for national unity and development through the inculcation of values such as discipline, honesty, probity, accountability, hard work, entrepreneurship and self-reliance.
Ahmed added that instead of building world-class graduates in both character and learning and in consonance with the ideals of NYSC, the tendency of school owners to cut corners and maximize financial gain takes centre stage, leading to the antithetical production of graduates.
“It is expected that, from 2024 Batch ‘A’ service year, the collection of master list of graduates would be extended to schools in Niger Republic, Cameroun, Ghana, and Uganda, which constitutes about 20% of graduates from the African continent.
“The exercise would be extended to cover countries identified with high vulnerability to faking of academic and travel documents”, he said.
The Director General also said the Scheme is doing its best to check the activities of dishonest people adding that the fight against unwholesome practices in the educational sector must be a collective responsibility.
He further said as part of the measures to overcome the challenges in the mobilization of foreign-trained Nigerian graduates, all schools in Benin Republic, Togo, Cameroun and Niger shall henceforth be submitting a project-bound master list of their graduates to the NYSC every service year.
The Director, Corps Mobilization, Hajiya Walida Siddique Isa in her introductory address disclosed that the Scheme would continue to engage countries operating academic systems which manifest elements of deviance from the global best practices and the NYSC established mobilization protocols.
