By DADA AYOKHAI
The absorption of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has invalidated 101 certificates of persons fraudulently mobilised for nationalist service.
Eddy Megwa, NYSC Director of Information and Public Relations, disclosed this successful a connection issued connected Monday successful Abuja.
“The 101 persons were illegally mobilised by the University of Calabar for nationalist work during the 2021, 2022 and 2023 NYSC work years.
“Out of the figure, 99 were underlisted for service, portion 2 others were exempted from service.
“Consequently, the absorption of NYSC hereby restates its beardown committedness to ensuring that unqualified locally and foreign-trained Nigerian youth, particularly those purported to person graduated from unaccredited universities, are not recognised.
“We volition ever guarantee lone qualified persons are issued with NYSC Certificates of National Service,” helium said.
He declared that “the NYSC certificates of the affected persons person been invalidated forthwith.”
Megwa urged members of the public, particularly corps employers, authorities ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs, firm and spiritual organisations, multi-national companies, crop-producing institutions and different captious stakeholders of NYSC, to instrumentality enactment for punctual action.
He besides urged members of the nationalist to ever confirm, from NYSC National Directorate Headquarters successful Abuja, the authenticity of certificates of nationalist service, arsenic good arsenic exemption and exclusion letters being presented for immoderate purpose.
