The
Federal Government has released a new NYSC posting policy for the
National Youth Service scheme, narrowing areas where corps members can
be deployed to only four sectors namely:- Rural health
- Primary and Secondary education
- Rural infrastructure development
- Agricultural development.
This new posting policy was made known by the Ministry of Information in a statement issued yesterday.
It is said to be a bid to restore national integration and youth empowerment as the core objectives of the NYSC Scheme.
“The new policy is set to discourage highly placed government
officials and influential members of the society from seeking for
concessionary posting for prospective corps members specifically to
metropolitan cities like Abuja, Lagos and others, contrary to the spirit
of the NYSC Scheme,” the statement said, quoting a circular to top
government functionaries in the three arms, Ministers, Permanent
Secretaries and Heads of Extra- Ministerial Departments and Statutory
Agencies and signed by the Secretary to the Government of the
Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim.
It also re-emphasised the categories of those eligible for concessionary
postings as Married women, Corps members with peculiar health related
issues; and Corps member with physical disabilities only
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