BREAKING: NYSC fixes orientation date for Stream 2 Batch A corp members

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has tentatively fixed July 26, 2017 for the commencement of orientation for prospective Stream 2, Batch A corp members nationwide.



By the new timetable, the orientation programme will close on August 15.

An NYSC source revealed on Tuesday that the agency fixed the date during an extended management meeting on Monday.

Highlights of the exercise are as follows:

a. Registration/verification: Wednesday 26th July – Thursday, 27th July, 2017

b. Registration Cut-off date: Midnight of 27th July, 2017

c. Closing ceremony: Tuesday, 15th August, 2017

Meanwhile, all Prospective Corps Members (PCMs) of the 2017 Batch ‘A’ (Stream II) are to advised to watch out for information on the printing of call-up letters shortly.

PCMs are advised to report promptly to the Orientation camps in their states of deployment at the camp addresses indicated in their call-up letters.

Management wishes all Prospective Corps Members safe journey to their respective states of deployment and a hitch-free Orientation course.

In another development, Prospective Corps Members of the 2017 Batch ‘A’ (Stream II) that the printing of Call-up letters will commence in the evening of Friday, 21st July, 2017.

We informed you in our earlier post that the 2017 Batch ‘A’ (Stream II) Orientation Course has been scheduled to take place from Wednesday, 26th July, 2017 to Tuesday, 15th August, 2017.

All PCMs are to proceed to their Orientation camps at the camp addresses indicated in their call-up letters.

Wishing you safe journey and a hitch-free camping.

The orientation programme for the first stream of Batch A corps members held between May 23 and June 12. Their Stream 2 counterparts were expected to be mobilised for camping shortly afterwards.

The NYSC scheme was created in 1973 to “reconstruct, reconcile and rebuild the country after the Nigerian Civil war.”