NYSC Warns Prospective Corps Members Against Presenting Fake Certificates

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has charged Prospective Corps Members (PCMs) of the 2025 Batch ‘B’ Stream II Orientation Course to contiguous lone genuine world and idiosyncratic documents astatine registration oregon hazard prosecution.

LEADERSHIP reports that Orientation Course volition commence crossed each camps connected Wednesday, 24th September, 2025, with registration closing by midnight of Friday, 26th September, 2025.

The swearing-in ceremonial is scheduled for Friday, 26th September, portion the closing ceremonial holds connected Tuesday, 14th October, 2025.

However, the Kwara State campy volition tally a peculiar docket from Tuesday, 30th September to Monday, 20th October, 2025.

In a connection signed by the Director-General, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, which was shared connected the Scheme’s authoritative Facebook page, the NYSC reminded prospective corps members of its zero-tolerance stance connected forgery and malpractice.

“On nary relationship should prospective Corps Members contiguous fake documents for registration. Anyone who does truthful volition beryllium apprehended, handed implicit to instrumentality enforcement and duly prosecuted,” the DG said

The Scheme besides emphasised that graduates of monotechnics and polytechnics must, successful summation to their different credentials, contiguous their National Diploma certificates arsenic portion of campy registration requirements.

Foreign-trained graduates were besides reminded to study to campy with their planetary passports and the archetypal copies of each uploaded documents.

“Foreign-trained graduates are required to travel on with their International Passports and archetypal copies of each uploaded credentials. This is simply a non-negotiable requirement,” the connection said.

On question safety, the NYSC powerfully discouraged nighttime journeys, urging Corps Members to prioritise their lives supra time.

“Once it is 6pm, each prospective Corps Members are enjoined to interruption their journeys and walk the nighttime astatine the nearest subject barracks, constabulary station, NYSC Secretariat oregon Corps Lodge,” the DG advised.

“We cannot overemphasise this: NYSC powerfully discourages nighttime journeys.”

PCMs were further urged to patronise lone vehicles from government-approved centrifugal parks to trim the hazard of falling prey to criminals.

The absorption besides addressed cases of mislaid call-up letters. “In the lawsuit of immoderate loss, those who collected theirs from their institutions should get a constabulary study and sworn affidavit earlier reporting to their schools for indispensable action. Those who printed online tin simply reprint,” the NYSC clarified.

The Corps warned that defaulters and impersonators would not beryllium spared.

“Any idiosyncratic who fails to study for work arsenic directed successful the call-up missive shall beryllium prosecuted successful enactment with the NYSC Act. Likewise, anyone who has antecedently obtained a Certificate of Service oregon Exemption but attempts to re-enlist volition besides look prosecution,” Brig.-Gen. Nafiu stressed.

Special considerations were, however, announced for definite categories including married, pregnant, and nursing mothers posted extracurricular their husbands’ states who whitethorn beryllium considered to service wherever their spouses reside.

In bid to validate specified claims, NYSC said they indispensable contiguous impervious of marriage, acceptable recognition of their husbands, and grounds of residence.

Furthermore, aesculapian and health-related graduates were required to contiguous grounds of registration with their nonrecreational bodies earlier registration astatine camp.

It further directed each prospective corps members to supply a certificate of aesculapian fittingness issued by a authorities oregon subject infirmary with the authoritative stamp of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).