Married female candidates for the National Youth Service Corps are encouraged to request redeployment if they are sent to a state other than the one where their husbands reside.
The scheme revealed this on Monday via its Twitter account.
They are known as PCMs up to the time that qualifying scheme members are sworn in at the various camps to which they are assigned.
Once sworn in, they are known as “corps members” and begin their 21-day stay in camp on the day of deployment.
The scheme, in a tweet titled, ‘ATTENTION ALL 2023 BATCH ‘A’ STREAM 2 MARRIED FEMALE PCMs’ said, “All married female Prospective Corps members (PCMs) who are deployed to states where their husbands are not domiciled should report to the nearest NYSC Orientation Camp for their State of Deployment to be changed.
“They are to report during the period of registration at the Orientation Camps with copies of their marital and other relevant documents as evidence.”
On May 22, 1973, the Nigerian government launched the NYSC programme, a programme designed to engage Nigerian graduates in nation-building and national development.
It was established based on decree No. 24 which stated that the scheme was created “with a view to the proper encouragement and development of common ties among the youths of Nigeria and the promotion of national unity”
A graduate must be under 30 years old when they graduate in order to be eligible for the Scheme. A graduate who completed their degree before turning 30 but skipped the service year will still be eligible because their diploma was issued before they turned 30.
But people over 30 receive a Certificate of Exemption, which is comparable to a NYSC Discharge Certificate.
Successful Corps members receive a certificate for satisfactorily engaging in the programme at the conclusion of their service year.
