{"id":196203,"date":"2020-02-24T08:37:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T07:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=196203"},"modified":"2020-02-24T08:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T07:37:58","slug":"nysc-cautions-corps-members-on-certificates-says-no-deployment-to-troubled-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=196203","title":{"rendered":"NYSC cautions corps members on certificates, says no deployment to troubled states"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has warned prospective corps members with fake credentials to stay off Orientation Camps across the country.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement on Sunday by Adenike Adeyemi, Director, Press and Public Relations, ahead of the 2020 Batch \u2018A\u2019 Orientation Course.<\/p>\n<p>NYSC warned that anyone caught with the intent to undermine the integrity of its mobilisation process with fake certificates would be arrested and prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>The statement quoted the Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim of issuing the warning in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim stated that the NYSC had put necessary mechanism in place to curb the enrollment of fake graduates for the orientation course, and would continue working diligently in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim revealed that during the 2019 Batch \u2018C\u2019 online registration, over 20,000 foreign-trained Nigerians uploaded their results online but only 3,420 appeared for physical verification because most didn\u2019t have genuine certificates.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe scheme recently had a meeting with the Registrars and Student Affairs Officers of some African Universities and read the riot act to them, including the Vice-Chancellors, Rectors and Provosts in the country on the need to sanitise the mobilisation process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NYSC alone cannot do it, we need other stakeholders to assist us and we have started the process and l am sure things are getting better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to appeal to our youths to do the right thing and not to cut corners in whatever they do in life, because there is always a reward for hard work,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The NYSC boss appealed to members of the public not to fall prey to the antics of online scammers that promise preferential deployment, internal posting, relocation and other services for a fee.<\/p>\n<p>The DG added that no corps member would be deployed to any state where there is security breach.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to corps members not to endanger themselves through risky adventures and unauthorised journeys.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim advised them to be security conscious at all times, board vehicles from only authorised motor parks and not by the roadside.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has warned prospective corps members with fake credentials to stay off Orientation Camps across the country. 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