Pregnant Women, Nursing Mothers and Engaged Students are barred for Serving (NYSC)

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has barred pregnant
women, nursing mothers and students engaged in postgraduate studies from
enlisting in the national service across the country, until they are free to
participate effectively.
Rising from a two-day pre-mobilisation workshop for the 2015
Batch “B” NYSC programme, held in Kaduna, Director-General of the NYSC,
Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, stated that the exemption of pregnant women and
nursing mothers, as well as post-graduate students from national service was
because they would not be able to undergo the four cardinal programmes of the
NYSC.
The four cardinal programmes include mobilisation,
orientation, primary assignment and winding-up passing out parade.
nysc members
Corps members
In a communique, the NYSC also resolved that henceforth,
pregnant women and children would no longer be allowed into orientation camps
across the country for service under the scheme established by the formal head of state Gen. Yakubu
Gowon administration in 1973.
Arguing that prospective corps members must go through the
four stages of national service to qualify to receive certificate of national
service, Olawumi faulted a situation whereby prospective corps members,
especially pregnant women and nursing mothers, would be absent from the stages of
the national service, only to resurface for posting to their various places of
primary assignments.
Meanwhile, the resolution workshop tagged: “ICT and NYSC
Mobilization Process: Towards Eliminating Identified Challenges,” added that
henceforth, documents for concessional posting request on marital or health
grounds would be forwarded on-line as against the old practice of “bringing
such to the NYSC headquarters in Abuja.”
It noted that prospective corps members would henceforth be
given the opportunity to choose their choice outside their socio-cultural and
linguistic areas, using ICT solution.
This, according to the NYSC, is in a bid to tackle the
problems of deluge of concessional request with which the scheme is inundated
with regularly.
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