NYSC: No more service for Pregnant women, nursing mothers and postgraduate

All pregnant and nursing mother who are about to be corps members Won't be allowed to serve their nation. The National Youth Service Corps(NYSC)  has barred them  from participating in the national service across the country.


The Director-General of the NYSC, Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawumi in a two days retreat in Kaduna said that any body affected should not bother to register, until they are free to participate effectively.

This new development was contained in the resolution of the two-day retreat released to journalists on Thursday.

The NYSC DG, at the workshop with the theme, ‘ICT and NYSC mobilisation process: towards eliminating identified challenges’, added that pregnant women and children would no longer be allowed into orientation camps across the country for service under the scheme established in 1973 by the Gen. Yakubu Gowon administration.

“It was further resolved that pregnant women, nursing mothers or students engaging in post-graduate studies should not bother to enlist for service until they are free to participate effectively,” the resolution read.

Olawumi noted that the exemption of pregnant women and nursing mothers as well as post-graduate students from national service was because they would not be able to undergo the four cardinal programmes of the NYSC, which are mobilisation, orientation, primary assignment and winding-up passing out.