National Open University Students Complain Over Non-participation In NYSC

The National Open University Students

Association of Nigeria has has expressed the

dissatisfaction with the non-participation of

its members in the National Youth Service

Corps (NYSC) scheme.

The National President of the association, Mr

Nelson Nwaonicha, expressed the

dissatisfaction in an interview with the News

Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba on

Sunday.

Nwaonicha said that the policy of the non-

inclusion of the graduates of the university in

the NYSC programme was discriminatory.

He said that there was great pride in serving

one's country, as the NYSC gave every

Nigerian graduate a sense of belonging,

personal worth and recognition by one's own

nation.

He said that it would amount to

abandonment and violation of the principle

of federal character and integration, if a set

of Nigerian students were not included in the

scheme.

He said that the service was created to

inculcate discipline in, educate and integrate

the Nigerian youth, regardless of their

institutional, cultural and social

backgrounds.

He appealed to the National Assembly to

review the Act establishing the NOUN with a

view to including the graduates in the

allowed age bracket in the programme.

The national president also called on the

management of the university to stop

admitting students for law programmes,

pending the approval of the Nigerian Law

School.

He recalled that the first two sets of law

graduates of the NOUN had not been

admitted into the law school to be certified

to practice their trade. (NAN)

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