Okay News reports that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has fixed Thursday, November 6, 2025, as the official date for the passing-out ceremony of the 2024 Batch ‘C’ Stream 1 corps members, marking the completion of their one-year mandatory national service.
In a statement released on Monday by the Director of Information and Public Relations, Caroline Embu, the NYSC management confirmed that the ceremony would be conducted in a low-key format nationwide, in line with the Corps’ tradition of modest and community-centered closing activities.
According to the statement, preparatory activities for the passing-out event will include job advisory clinics, entrepreneurship counselling sessions, and career guidance workshops aimed at equipping outgoing corps members with essential post-service skills and opportunities. These sessions will be held across various local government areas in all states of the federation.
The NYSC also disclosed that Zonal and Local Government Inspectors will supervise the final stages of the service year, including the signing and issuance of clearance certificates, which are prerequisites for the collection of the NYSC discharge certificate.
Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, the NYSC Director-General, extended his best wishes to all corps members completing their service year, as well as to monitoring officers who have ensured the smooth implementation of the NYSC programmes nationwide.
“The Director-General wishes all corps members passing out, including the monitoring officers on assignment, a successful winding-up and passing-out exercise,” the statement read.
The 2024 Batch ‘C’ Stream 1 corps members had commenced their orientation course on October 23, 2024, which ended on November 12, 2024, across all 37 NYSC orientation camps in Nigeria. The orientation period featured paramilitary drills, leadership development activities, lectures on civic responsibility, and entrepreneurship training under the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme.
Following the orientation, corps members were deployed to their various Places of Primary Assignment (PPA) in sectors such as education, healthcare, agriculture, and community development, where they contributed to social growth and nation-building efforts.
The NYSC management reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening the scheme’s core objectives of promoting national unity, fostering inter-ethnic integration, and empowering young Nigerians to become self-reliant after their service year.
As the corps members prepare to take their final bow, the NYSC encouraged them to uphold the values of discipline, patriotism, and service, which form the foundation of the programme since its establishment in 1973.
