Federal Government Directs Students To Submit Final Year Projects To Partake In NYSC

The Federal Government has announced that graduates volition nary longer beryllium mobilised for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) unless they taxable their last twelvemonth projects and different world works to the Nigeria Education Repository and Databank (NERD).

President Bola Tinubu approved the reform, which formally links NYSC mobilisation to compliance with the NERD policy.

By invoking Sections 2(4)(4) and 16(1)(C) of the NYSC Act, the president directed that nary graduate, whether from a Nigerian oregon overseas institution, volition beryllium mobilised for, oregon exempted from NYSC without impervious of depositing world outputs successful the NERD database.

The directive, contained successful a circular issued by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, volition instrumentality effect from October 6.

Under the NERD framework, students are required to upload their world outputs, including theses, dissertations, and last twelvemonth projects, into the nationalist repository.

The inaugural was designed to curb certificate fraud, sphere Nigeria’s intelligence assets, and supply an autarkic prime assurance mechanics for higher education.

In March 2025, portion issuing the Declaration of Effectiveness for NERD, Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, had confirmed that the mandatory submission of world outputs had go a ineligible requirement, citing Sections 2.3, 4.3(1), and 7.6.11(c) of the policy.

NERD spokesperson, Haula Galadima, explained that each pupil submission volition see the names of the student, supervisor, co-supervisor (where applicable), Head of Department, and the sponsoring institution.

This, she said, would assistance enforce accountability and rise the prime of world supervision.

“Apart from the mandate to verify authenticity arsenic a nationalist flagship, the NERD digitisation programme has a wide nonsubjective – to rise the barroom successful the prime of world content, output, and presumption nationwide,” Galadima noted.

“One mode NERD intends to execute this is by strengthening supervision successful higher institutions. If our eminent scholars are alert that their names volition look adjacent to those of the students they supervise connected a globally disposable integer platform, determination is the likelihood that each lecturer would up his oregon her standard.

“Very fewer lecturers would privation their names associated with poorly produced world works. NERD is truthful poised to assistance each lecturer gain his ‘earned allowances’ by ensuring thorough supervision,” Galadima said.