ABUJA — Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has called on key stakeholders to eliminate data errors and curb fraud ahead of the upcoming nationwide graduate deployment scheme.
Speaking at the 2026 Batch ‘C’ Pre-Mobilisation Workshop in Abuja, the agency’s Director General, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, warned that manual record manipulation, delayed data submission, and system negligence jeopardize the credibility of the youth service program.
The NYSC is a mandatory, year-long national service program established in 1973 for Nigerian tertiary education graduates under the age of 30, designed to promote national unity and development.
General Nafiu emphasized that the scheme is accelerating its shift toward digital automation to bolster transparency and secure its databases against unauthorized alterations.“We must be zero-tolerant of negligence, manipulation of records, abuse of process, and other practices capable of compromising the integrity of our organization,” General Nafiu said, addressing representatives from universities, polytechnics, and government agencies. “Every inaccurate record or delayed response adversely affects the mobilization of graduates.”He urged higher education institutions—referred to as Corps-producing institutions—to tighten internal verification checks before submitting graduate lists to the national database.
Echoing the call for stricter oversight, NYSC Director of Corps Mobilisation, Rachel Idaewor, urged participating institutions to enhance digital controls and adhere strictly to global best practices to prevent fraudulent mobilization.
The agency’s move toward full digitization aims to streamline registration, reduce processing times, and eliminate long-standing bottlenecks for thousands of prospective corps members entering the national service scheme this year.
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