Graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) will soon get the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) approval to participate in the one year compulsory service.
A 2012 announcement posted on the NOUN website
asked students to pay a 'regularisation fee' of N3500 towards the
regularisation of the process them to within the stipulated age to
participate in the NSYC scheme.
"I write to inform
you that as part of our preparations towards undertaking the National
Youth Service, All graduating students are expected to regularise their
admissions process.
"The sum of Three Thousand
Five Hundred Naira (N3, 500) only is to be paid for the regularisation
process," the announcement read in part.
The 'deadline' for payment was Friday 21st December 2012' but, two years on, the graduates are yet to make their debut.
What this means is that Open University graduates paid the fee but are yet to be approved in years 2013 and 2014.
In an interview published by the Tribune, the Vice Chancellor of NOUN, Professor Vincent Ado Tenebe, said the NYSC ought to allow its graduates into the scheme.
"On
the issue of eligibility for NYSC, there is no reason to exclude
graduates of NOUN who are within the age bracket from the NYSC programme
because they have gone through the same curriculum with their
counterparts in the conventional universities," Tenebe reportedly said.
"The
only reason for the seeming challenge is that, when the NYSC started in
1973, the Open University system was not in place. At the moment, the
NYSC is issuing exemption certificates to all our graduates."
He went further to express hope of a positive turn of events.
"I
foresee a situation where our graduates who are still within the age
bracket will be allowed to participate in NYSC after going through a
programme of four or five years."
This is 2015 and many people are still wondering when this dream will become a reality.
Many
students and prospective students will be hoping NYSC approves Tenebe’s
request but it does seem dark in the tunnel with no end in sight.
The National Open University of Nigeria is a federal university accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC).
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