In a major policy shift, Minister of Education, Dr. Olatunji Alausa, has taken decisive steps to address the exclusion of some polytechnic graduates from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) due to their part-time National Diploma (ND) background.
Speaking at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos on Friday, the minister affirmed that he had signed off on a memo directing the NYSC Director-General to mobilize the affected graduates.
Alausa’s intervention follows growing frustration among Higher National Diploma (HND) graduates who were disqualified from the one-year mandatory service due to a newly introduced policy.