The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has postponed to April 27, the three-week Batch A Orientation course earlier scheduled to start on March 30.
Abosede Aderibigbe, NYSC’s director of press and public relations, made the confirmation while responding to an inquiry by TheCable.
Prospective corps members were confused on Friday when a message started circulating online that the orientation programme had been postponed.
A statement on the NYSC camp appeared to validate their fears, but there were against reports that the strange time table was the work of hackers who had supposedly gained access to the NYSC website.
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Aderibigbe did not state any reason for the shift, but apologised to the prospective corps members over any inconvenience that the development could create.
“We wish to confirm the shift in date for the commencement of the 2016 Batch ‘A’ Orientation course,” she said.
“The new time-table for the course is as follows:
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Stream I
Commencement: Wednesday, 27th April, 2016
Swearing-in ceremony: Friday, 29th April, 2016, Close of Camp: Friday, 13th May, 2016
Stream II
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Commencement: Saturday, 21st May, 2016 Swearing-in ceremony: Monday, 23rd May, 2016
Close of Camp: Monday, 6th June, 2016
“We also use this opportunity to express our sincere regrets over any inconveniences this change of date might cause to Prospective Corps Members and other esteemed stakeholders.”
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75 comments
All things work for good to those that love God.
Why is this service mandatory ??? because of it one will spend almost a year before the service after graduation…this is not a good idea. With school certificate one cannot get job. I beg this Government to make it optional right from this batch. pls
@thenas service isn’t mandatory if u don’t want to do it get an Exemption Letter, its just that companies and industries just want to see it, to confirm u went for service so choose your destiny.
you have to be at least 30 to get an exemption letter.. or has that changed?
All things work for good to those who love God.
I feel not okay when I heard the news but praying is the best opportunity in every day life
Is well God has a plan for His people but govt should increase the money given to corp me members so to allow them contribute for national growth
Your comment..wen will batch B be going 4 there service?
April 27 to may 13 is not up to 21 days which is the stipulated duration for orientation camp… I suspect foul play there! Hacker are don’t the loose again!
Why is that married women are not going to nysc camp to outside there state ? Beco y i’m saying this is dat some got married at age of 17 to 18 and dere havenot miss up with people or travell out, so this is there opportunity to go camp to outside state apart from those are pregnant and nurse mother
God will help us,the government should consider the corps members.are we going to stay at home for a year before going to NYSC camp? this change is not helping us
See English…Nigeria graduate!!
@Manuel. It’s not possible. This person could not have gone to school talk less of graduating from university. Otherwise … how sad!
when is batch A 2015 pop date?
Your comment..@Ronke,you just made a blunder in your sentence too.
Manuel I believe you wanted to say NIGERIAN student… Yet you said Nigeria student…. I wonder which institution you all graduated from with this motor Park English and wrongly spelt words . it’s this kind of English that’s making nysc keep postponing the camp date…. Kikikikikikikikki… Lmao
Lol….motor pack indeed.
Oluchi look at d way u fabricated ur grammar as if u don’t go to school. Which type of question is that, who are u asking? I wonder how u obtained and paraded urself as a graduate. Go back to school pls,
Motion I suppose you may have heard the saying, paraphrased to say you should take out the log of wood in your eye before removing the speck from another person’s eye… In as much as oluchi’s statement carries lots of grammatical blunders you don’t have to come up here to talk her down when yours isn’t properly constructed… You rightly should have typed, “… as if you hadn’t attended/gone to school…”. Speak right!
Dear, you are right. I noticed that too, 27th to 13th isn’t up to three weeks as it is suppose to be.
As if you didn’t go to school .or as if you never attended school.
So as to take care of their husband and kid(s)
pop on 14th April. every thing that has bringing must have an end. bless NYSC, bless Nigeria n bless u
Your comment..I don’t even know wat to believe anymore…
Haba NYSC are u waiting for some of us to turn to bad pple b4 we go for camp? Many are already dead some are nw prostitutes nd armed rubbers, we are tired of staying at home nd it is affecting many of us negatively. Pls dnt postpone it again aftr dis one coz if u do, many will commit suicide!!!
I sincerely hope rooms will be opened for correction of wrongly spelt names.
O Allah make it best of time whenever it deem right for you. But I equally suspect a peck information in this post, because April 27 to May 13 is not upto 21 days as the stipulated time entels.
Simple NYSC program you can’t maintain. Scrap it I say, stop making graduates look useless with their certificate. After the hurdles through school you’re still keeping us at home for months without applying for jobs with our certificate and you can’t kick start the nysc program. What a shame. Few days to go you wake up and change the dates. Is it the faults of PCMs that you can’t manage the NYSC program. Better return it to April 1st or make it optional. We are tired of been pushed around. You people better watch it because if the youths and young graduates get vexed. The country go tire una o. I rest my case.
Hmmm. Nysc it is not the fault of PÇMs that you can’t manage the program you made mandatory for Nigerian graduates. Better return it to April 1st. There’s no excuse for your incapability and weakness to monitor the scheme. Lack of planning and poor implementation. No inspection at all. Make the program optional or scrap it. Graduates without a certificate from the scheme hardly get a good job. That is wickedness. Be careful because if the youths of a nation grow against that nation the end is near. Biafra dey one side. Instead of you to try every means to unite the love of the youth towards the country you’re busy trying their patience. I rest my case. April 1st.
There is a purpose for everything
Your comment..let ALLHA mak it a blessing time 4 us
Let us continue to excersice ptnce, there may be blessing over this postponment
aw I wish I had gone wif d last batch cos ds ppl r getting MI frustrated by d day. 1st it was Feb postponed to March 2 den to March 30th. MA prayer is weneva it is I said b favoured insha allah
The rot in the system (NYSC) due to corruption is the root of all these nonsense. EFCC should investigate this now before it is too late.
Am disappointed… but i pray let it favour us all
Why all these postpones now? May the change be the best for us: Ameen
Your comment..plz wen is batch B,going 4 their service?
Pls nysc should let us know dier plans,graduated from school since june 2015 n still at home till now waiting for nysc,series of job offers have been neglected all bcos of dis unserious minded people, I think it is better d FG pass a memo n scrap dis nysc if it wont work just wasting our precious time. We are all angry
God has a reason for al things.infact i hav tenderd ma resignatn letter wer i work in anticipatn of 30th.pls som one shld tel us more.first it was frm 2nd to 30th then shiftd again to 1st April nd nw 27th April.if dis is d case den sum one shld tel me wen batch B wil b in camp nt to mention batch C.negative change indeed!
Its really not fair, bad economic outurn coupled with joblessness among pcms would only make matters worst, pls nysc do something…. I hope its just a rumour… Nysc has lost its credibility…. FG should make nysc optional… We are tired..
Nysc is frustrated and confused. They now wanna transfer such to us.
Call-up letter wil clear all ds doubt cum 24th of ds month
Your comment..Ah? God help us from the hands of these people,we are tired of staying @ home
Your comment..NYSC and FG please put heads together and sort things out, I can’t be staying at home like that after some years in school, am tired of answering questions.
Your comment..God choice is the best, god blees my nation, nyscportal, & corp members in all.
nna owu na asazi m.Am tired of staying at home. The small business wey I use dey keep my set busy is sinking.I was hoping on the allawee to start small again.Obodo di egwu o
Am really sad about these postponements….
why are they treating us this way
Pls when is batch B observing their camp
Nysc officials are confused. If they are not, then they …
pls we should all exercise patient everyone of us will enjoy by God grace.we should all say Amin
its so sad am affected by this event. change change change. I wonder if this so called change is the one affecting NTSC. nawa oooo
Your comment..God’s time is the best in life, I believed there are reasons for the postponements OK . is for our favour…
It is well no matter what happens
What nonsense, what will I tell my guys sought . parents, from feb to march 2 to march 30th to april 1st and now april 27th, pls lemme ask these NYSC folks, what am I suppose to be doing while u guys sought out ur craps, pls it’s not by myt that we must go and serve a country that doesn’t care about our struggles, scrap NYSC, it’s a waste of my time and I believe a lot of youths will agree. We Are Tired Of Being Used By The Federal Government Annoying People.
this thing is getting out of hand. How long shall we stay @home waiting for camp? Now we are not even sure of dat stipulated April 27th. May God help us.
So am glad myself and my spouse can HV our trips together my introduction. d way#abbie cares #oluwani
Your comment..I was confuse wen I heard this information I thought it was a joke.
Your comment..This is so painful, after all the struggle we face at school and the years we use, now its time to serve our country,they keep on wasting our time. Am just tired, it’s only God that will help us
yes. diz pple are destiny delayers. I haven’t been dis frustrated before in my life. We don’t need did destiny delaying Nysc anymore. despair, despair
desperation, hopelessness and confussion is wot dey have given to us instead of hope and good life. God will help us.
Let d rightoeus say it is well
Your comment..is well,glory to almighty God for everything,having known that jesus is the way the truth and life:at the best time better thing will happen:all glory to God.
Why are we been maltreated as if we were in the college? I have graduated two years back but this service is still my problem.
Your comment..FG Shul pls scrap NYSC or make it optional
XO XO #happy 4 dis #change oooo…(nobody shld tek it personal n dnt chop me raw!) @NYSC, not only 2 change d date make sure d allawee increases 2 atleast 50k 4 compensation! 2 cover up tis #MESS
Your comment..@NYSC Why are you doing us the more you look the less you see. My expectation this week was call up letter not giving me heart break with postpones new. They say every disappointment is a blessing but this one is a lesson from NYSC. Let something be done about this sudden postpones news because i still can’t believe it.
nt hpy with NYSC mgt
standing on the platform of truth,this development is a great set back all plans have changed NYSC no good oooo
Pls wen is batch B goin to camp
y my time? it should be for good oh this change, hope u will not shift it when it reaches 27 again to December?
My own showed no record and I wonder why? Wen will batch by go for service?
sincerely speaking nysc management would not helping the situation at all, how can this will continue, you postponed several times without any genuine reasons and still government keep mute, does that mean FG is aware and approve this nonsense? this has to stop!!!
when would Nigeria do thing right for God sake. it is well great Nigerians.
April 27 z around d corner,.. let’s kp hopn tz nt postponed again… Great Nigerian students!!!
why all this, i really dont think if this country is getting better or to the other, my organization held my confirmation base on the so call Exclusion letter which has been taking months over months to get,i already communicated to my organization that the Exclusion will be ready by the date populated now they have gone out of there words, what do i do or say now…why are they trying to destroy peoples future?