NYSC Standard Roadmap, Guidelines and Procedures

The journey to a successful NYSC, National Youth Service Corp programme begins as soon as a student finishes all clearance activities in his/her institution of choice. This documentation would be made as brief as possible as it assumes the reader to have background information on what the NYSC programme is all about, the history of the NYSC and other basic background knowledge. So it would focus on just the roadmap from start to finish of the NYSC programme, as a firsthand information since the author is a corp member himself, serving his fatherland as at the time of publishing this.

Clearance for NYSC

Once a student completes studies, what follows is clearance. There are about four sets of clearances within the Nigerian educational setting.

The first set of clearance involves finance – all kinds of finance related activities affiliated with the student in Nigerian Tertiary educational institutions such as Tuition, dues and damages. The finance officers and bursary unit of Universities and other tertiary Institutions handle this together with the student. Once cleared and found not to default/defaulted any financial activity legitimate to him/her, the student is good to go to the next set of clearance.

General clearance – the student is issued forms at the Student Affairs Unit of the university and faculty offices which he must ensure are signed by appropriate authorities. The student would move from office to office namely, the bursary, dean of his/her faculty, dean of students, Library, head of department and himself  etc. on completion of this, the student applies for  new student ID card which he would present on camp. This may take few days or weeks to process.

Third clearance is done once the student sees his name on the graduation board. He/she then obtains a clearance form from the dean of students and completes same, then submits.

Final Clearance – As already noted, before a student undergoes the above he must have seen his/her name among persons enlisted for service. This temporarily marks the end of his studentship in the institution. He/she is perhaps now a graduate and may wish to be addressed as such. So please permit me to use replace “student” with “graduate” henceforth.

The graduate is hence issued a final clearance form with columns for his names in full, date of graduation, state being deployed to, place holder for passport in red background  etc. he attached  a photocopy of his/her ID Card to this and is off to service.

NYSC Registration

Registration for NYSC programme is done online at the NYSC registrations portal, portal.nysc.org.ng.  For regular registrations, what is needed is basically white passport photograph, valid email account, active phone number, correct signature of the candidate and other bio-data. The portal is open for registration for about one month during which period prospective corp members must have completed all registrations and printed their green card details. 

NYSC REGISTRATIONS PORTAL

Corp members who would want their call up numbers sent to them directly (and not school) would pay about N3000 at the bank or online and would print a payments notification to that effect. Once the call-up numbers are available, they would be able to print out same via the NYSC portal with their account logins. The call-up letter shows the state of deployment, venue of camp and certain basic information about the prospective corp member as well as some guidelines for successful service year. Of recent (2015), candidates were required to choose three states in Nigeria of Interest, one of which would be randomly picked for them as their states of deployment. It was a matter of sheer luck as many people were disappointed – against their most preferred states. Candidates were to choose a state each from three of the six geo-political zones of the country in this order - the most preferred, more preferred and preferred states respectively.

Basic NYSC Kits

Corp members are required to report at NYSC camp with certain conveniences excluding automobiles, motorbikes and bicycles and/or questionable objects. They are however required to come along with sets of white shorts, underwear, white polo etc., torchlight, buckets, plates and cutleries, blankets, pillows and other basic conveniences.  

NYSC Rules

There are a number of rules and general guidelines for the NYSC Programme. Needless writing them all here as these are well documented on the NYSC Portal and on the call-up later. Please access the NYSC portal to see full NYSC in-service guidelines and specifications.  

NYSC CALL UP LETTER - RULES SECTION

Designation to place of Primary assignment

Three weeks is designated for camping at the states of deployment. After this, corp members are to rest for about two weeks before deployment to place of primary assignment. That is where the real service to nation begins. The above was just a preamble. A toast to service and humility . . . . . corper shun!!

You may drop your comments; this is just an introduction. . . . Or perhaps, a summary!