The leadership of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, was yesterday requested by the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, to reduce the N4000 it charges prospective corps members as online registration fee to N3000.
The national students’ union warned that on no account should anybody or group either the NYSC Directorate, any school management or the operators of the online system exploit the intending NYSC members under the present arrangement.
Addressing journalists after meeting with management of the NYSC in Abuja, the NANS President, Comrade Tijani Usman promised that NANS would monitor the online policy to guarantee that it remains functional, effective and exploitation-free.
Although it endorsed the policy, NANS said “there is no need retaining the old Manual Call-Up system, since it is costly and risky. Consequently, the online system should be mandatory, but very effective.”
While passing a vote of confidence on the Director General of the NYSC, Brigadier General Olawumi as well as his style of leading the NYSC, NANS urged “all our students and our ever-caring parents to embrace this online system.
“NANS will ensure that her positions especially on the reduced fee are pushed through so as to make the system better in the end.
“This supreme students body also wished to make it clear that we have protested, argued and debated this in the most civilized way, our issues were on points of facts and contents, there is no personal problem between either the leadership of NANs and the NYSC,” the student leader said.
