The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has announced that change of name will no longer be a requirement for married female corps members seeking redeployment.
This is contained in a circular signed by the service’s Director Corps Mobilisation, Abubakar Mohammed and issued to directors, Ag. Directors State and Federal Capital Territory, FCT Coordinators.
The circular dated November 25, 2024, titled: “Review of criteria for concessional, deployment/relocation for married female corps members” disclosed that the management has approved the review of criteria for the approval of concessional deployment/relocation of married female corps members.
It stated that state coordinators are to henceforth be informed that “changing a maiden name to that of a spouse is no longer a requirement for the approval of such request by married female corps members.
“Other requirements remain as they were.”
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It maintained that state/FCT Coordinators are to ensure strict compliance with the directives, and directors area offices are to monitor the implementation.
The National Youth Service Corps is a mandatory, post-tertiary scheme set up by the Nigerian government during the military regime of Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, to “reconstruct, reconcile and rebuild the country after the Nigerian Civil war.”
Since 1973, graduates of universities and polytechnics have been required to take part in the National Youth Service Corps program for one year.
Corps members are posted to states other than their state of origin, where they are expected to mix with people from different ethnic group, social and family backgrounds, and learn the cultures and traditions of the indigenes in the location they are posted to.
This action aims to foster national unity and appreciation of other ethnic groups in the country.
To be eligible to participate in the compulsory one year service, a graduate must be below or not above the age of 30 years upon graduation, or else he/she will be given a Certificate of Exemption, which is also equivalent to the NYSC Discharge Certificate.
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