Indications has emerged that the proposed
N4,000 to be paid by prospective corps
members for printing of call-up letters online
and other services including infrastructure to be
deployed for the services, might be reduced
subsequently.

The Director of Press and Public Relations in
NYSC, Mrs. Bose Aderibigbe, disclosed this
while briefing journalists on the outcome of the
meeting held on Wednesday in Abuja between
the Director-General of the NYSC, Brig.- Gen.
Johnson Olawumi, and the Special Assistant to
President Goodluck Jonathan on Youth Affairs,

Mr. Jude Imagwe.
She said, “He (Imagwe) came to find out what is
going on about the outcry against the payment
of N4,000 online registration by prospective
corps members.
The DG told him that the
N4,000 being paid is not for call-up letters but
just for the operation and provision of
infrastructural facilities in all NYSC camps and
its 37 secretariats and offices in the 774 local
governments nationwide. It is for putting these
Internet and manpower facilities to ensure easy
operation of prospective corps members.
“The DG has stated that the N4,000 issue might
not be reviewed for now but during subsequent
orientation, it might be possible after
management and Sidmach Technologies have
sat down to see the possibility of the reduction.
So for now, it might not be possible but
subsequent ones, if it is possible the entire
public will know about it.”

There had been criticisms against the N4,000
fee but the NYSC had risen to its defence, saying
the computerisation would ease the rigorous
processes involved in the collection of call-up
letters.

The full computerisation of the mobilisation
process beginning with the 2014 Batch ‘C’
mobilisation exercise was endorsed at the 2014
NYSC Annual Management Conference, held in
Calabar.
The Director of Corps Mobilisation in the NYSC,
Mr. Anthony Ani, stated that the innovation
would not bring about job losses for members of
staff.