Starting from 2014 Batch B,
prospective National Youth Service Corp, NYSC, members will henceforth collect
their mobilisation call-up letters for orientation online.
The exercise is aimed at alleviating
prospective corps’ members from traveling from their states of domicile after
graduation to their schools in order to collect the call-up letters.
Director-General, DG, of the NYSC,
Brig.-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, gave the hint yesterday, during the
pre-mobilisation seminar in preparation for 2014 Batch B in Enugu.
Oluwumi said: “It is for automation
for mobilisation process for NYSC. The mobilisation process will be done
through automation that a graduate from a school in Sokoto, for example, would
not have to go to Sokoto to collect his call-up letter. All that will be done
online.”
He also said that the agency was
widening its scope of primary assignment from the four key areas of posting
corps members to accommodate other sectors so as to reduce the rate of
rejection of corps members.
He listed the new areas to include
the banking sector, Oil and Gas, Telecommunication, among others.
Oluwumi stated that because of
insecurity in some states of the North- East where there is emergency rule, the
NYSC does not post corps members to states, except on demand.
The workshop tagged, “Consolidating
Effective Strategies for a Credible Mobilisation process”, is expected to
provide a platform for interfacing between NYSC and corps producing
institutions geared towards re-engineering the scheme for optimum operations.
Addressing the participants, Gen.
Olawumi said, “The management will leave no stone unturned to ensure that the
vast human resources at the disposal of the scheme is appropriately deployed to
all areas of need within the state.
