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The Federal Government has introduced a new policy requiring all graduates to submit their thesis or final-year projects to the Nigeria Education Repository and Databank (NERD) before they can be mobilised for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
According to a circular issued by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, and approved by President Bola Tinubu, the directive will take effect on October 6. From that date, no graduate – whether trained in Nigeria or abroad – will be mobilised or exempted from the NYSC without proof of compliance.
The circular explained that the “NYSC mobilisation criteria [have been adjusted] in accordance with the President’s regulation requiring proof of NERD Policy compliance for all prospective corps members, regardless of where they were educated.”
The policy, as outlined in Section 6.1.23 of the NERD guidelines, mandates the deposit of academic works into the national database to serve “as a quality assurance check and as a yearly independent proof of continuous academic enrolment and affiliation.”
NERD spokesperson Haula Galadima said, “Apart from the mandate to verify for authenticity as a national flagship, the NERD digitisation programme has a clear objective, to raise the bar in the quality of academic content, output and presentation nationwide.”
She explained that every submission will carry full details of the student, their supervisor, co-supervisor (if any), Head of Department, and the sponsoring institution.
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