₦airaland Forum

THE National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said the recent requirement for JAMB registration number of prospective corps members was not to disqualify those who had done pre-degree programmes from service but rather to sieve out unqualified prospective corps members and fake students.

The NYSC Director of Public Relations, Mrs. Abosede Aderibigbe, who made the clarification while speaking with journalists in Abuja Monday, explained that some schools were in the habit of sending the names of unqualified students to NYSC for mobilisation.

This act, according to her, had led to situations whereby some corps members had been found not to be able to speak coherent English or to even fill some of the forms they were given correctly. The provision of JAMB registration number, according to her, would curb this embarrassment. As for those who went through pre-degree programmes, she added that JAMB made a commitment to generate numbers for them so that they could be mobilised.