FG makes thesis submission mandatory for NYSC participants

By John Alechenu

Abuja—President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has invoked provisions successful Sections 2(4)(4) and 16(1)(C) of the NYSC Act, and approved a far-reaching betterment which makes compliance with the National Policy for the Nigeria Education Repository and Databank, NERD, a mandatory request for mobilisation into oregon exemption from the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC.

The compliance directive was contained successful Item 2(ix) successful an enforcement circular precocious issued by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, who conveyed the support for the accommodation of “NYSC mobilisation criteria successful accordance with the President’s regularisation requiring impervious of NERD Policy compliance for each prospective Corps members, careless of wherever they were educated.”

Apart from provisions successful the argumentation meant to cheque certificate racketeering and the maltreatment of honours conferred connected individuals by world institutions, 1 of the caller mandatory requirements of Nigerian students contained successful the national government’s argumentation is the deposit of world outputs, which see thesis oregon task reports.

In Section 6.1.23 of the policy, the request is designed: “as a prime assurance cheque and arsenic a yearly autarkic impervious of continuous world enrolment and affiliation” arsenic it is expected to inviolably time-stamp scholarship, world activities, and footprint careless of location.

Recall that successful March 2025, portion issuing the declaration of effectiveness for NERD, the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, stated that “the approved stipulations for mandatory submission of world outputs arsenic provided successful Sections 2.3, 4.3(1), and 7.6.11(c), among others, of the approved National Policy for the NERD Programme shall go obligatory requirements successful Nigeria.

“The NERD Policy applies successful adjacent measures to each acquisition transportation institutions careless of ownership benignant (public, private, subject oregon civilian) whether wrong oregon extracurricular the nonstop supervision of the national ministry of education, specified arsenic colleges oregon schools of nursing, agriculture, specialised probe institutions and institutes, etc.”

The circular issued by the bureau of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, has present clarified that, effectual from October 6, nary Nigerian postgraduate – whether from a Nigerian university, polytechnic, assemblage of education, oregon an overseas instauration volition henceforth beryllium mobilised for oregon exempted from NYSC without impervious of NERD compliance.

This measurement aims to safeguard the nation’s intelligence assets portion restoring credibility to world processes and qualifications.

The directive does not, however, impact serving Corps members oregon those enrolled earlier the October 6th enforcement date.

A transcript of the approved NERD argumentation obtained by our analogous revealed that President Tinubu besides approved an world output monetisation and reward mechanics for students and their lecturers, which Alausa projected to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to guarantee students and lecturers tin gain beingness revenues from their world deposits.

The argumentation encourages each higher instauration to acceptable up its section repository.

Specifically, the argumentation created an illuminated pathway with a well-structured collaborative model wherever the assorted autonomous institutions had hitherto operated arsenic silos.

The national government’s circular to Ministries, Departments, Agencies (MDAs), and higher institutions of learning (public and private, civilian and subject alike) directs afloat enforcement of the NERD Policy.

In addition, captious information bodies, including the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, are required to supply inter-organisation information speech enactment via Application Programming Interfaces, APIs, to facilitate onboarding and information validation.

While underscoring the value of the directive, spokesperson for NERD, Haula Galadima, explained that each point deposited by a pupil shall diagnostic the afloat sanction of the student, and those of his supervisor, co-supervisor, if any, and that of the Head of Department, arsenic good arsenic the sponsoring instauration and department.

She further stated that, “apart from the mandate to verify for authenticity arsenic a nationalist flagship, the NERD digitisation programme has a wide nonsubjective – to rise the barroom successful the prime of world content, output and presumption nationwide.

“One mode NERD intends to accomp...