By Jane Okafor, Abuja
Certificates of national service issued to 101 University of Calabar, Cross River State graduates have been invalidated and withdrawn by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
NYSC cited fraudulent mobilisation of the affected graduates for service in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Director of Information and Public Relations of the NYSC, Eddy Megwa, disclosed this on Monday, August 12.
Megwa said “This is to inform members of the public that 99 persons and two others on exemption were fraudulently mobilised by the University of Calabar for national service during the 2021, 2022, and 2023 NYSC service years.
“Management of the National Youth Service Corps hereby restates its strong commitment to ensuring that unqualified locally and foreign-trained Nigerian youths, especially those purported to have graduated from unaccredited universities, are not recognised, while only qualified persons are issued with NYSC certificates of national service.
“Arising from the above, their certificates of national service have been invalidated forthwith by the NYSC management.’’
