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ELIGIBILITY FOR SERVICE

The National Youth Service Corps year consists of a four – phase programme comprising :-

•  Mobilization

This entails collection and collation of data on all prospective corps members from the various corps producing institutions nation-wide whose graduates qualify for enlistment into the scheme. Nigerian graduates from foreign institutions report directly to the Directorate Headquarters Abuja, for the evaluation of their certificates preparatory to deployment

Foreign-trained graduates should note that only nationals who graduated before they turned 30 are eligible to serve irrespective of their age on arrival in Nigeria . It is age at graduation for the first degree that matters

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•  Orientation Course

This is the training programme designed to induct the corps members and prepare them for their one year national assignment. The induction programme is expected to instill discipline, inculcate the spirit of national consciousness and promote espirit de corps among the corps members. ...MORE

Primary Assignment and Community Development Service.

At the end of the Orientation Course which usually lasts for a period of three weeks, Corps Members depart the Camp to proceed to do their primary assignment under the Employer of labour either in public or private sector.

The Community development Service (CDS) is the secondary assignment which the Corps members undertake as an important and demanding aspect of the service year. The CDS programme affords the corps members an opportunity to bring to bear their skills , talents, creativity and innovativeness in providing programmes and projects that are beneficial to their host communities. ...MORE

 

•  Winding-up Activities and Passing-out Parade

The winding-up and passing-out programme draws the curtain on the service year. Corps members usually re-assemble at a central location from their various places of primary assignment for general evaluation of the national service and to determine whether or not the corps members have effectively internalized the ideals of the scheme.

The programme is usually conducted with colour, parade, cultural displays to bid the corps members farewell as they disengage from national service    ...MORE