Pregnant Women, Nursing mothers, PG Students Barred From Service - 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.

 

According to the NYSC, this group of people will only be allowed to enlist when 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.

  

In a communique, the NYSC also resolved that henceforth, pregnant women would no longer be allowed into orientation camps across the country for service under the scheme established by the Gen. Yakubu Gowon administration in 1973.