Some parents have lamented the frustrating postures of officials of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, which have resulted to many prospective corps members not meeting up with the registration deadline.

Registration of prospective corps members was to begin on November 4 and close on Sunday, November 9, 2025.
However, it was learnt that many prospective corps memebers are yet to be registered at the closing date, with corps officials blaiming the perceived callousness on network failure while candidates still see their fate hanging at at 12 midnight of the closing date.

Some officials of the scheme claim that the portal went off at 12midnight and did not open till 3am.
This claimed network did not happen in only Abuja, but in Lagos, Akwa Ibom, Abia, Sokoto and many other states.
A complainant Mrs Akinwumi Adebanjo, whose, Veronica wants to serve in Abuja, cried out that her child’s registration had been delayed by NYSC officials till the registration closing date.
“NYSC lied that they have registered 18,000 candidates. Where and how did they register the candidates as everywhere was flooded with candidates trying to register? she queried.

According to Mrs Adebanjo, “As I and my children could not register at home, we went to business centre and pay N12k while others in other centres paid N18k. How many families can afford that as you know that many parents are as poor as pepper sellers?”
Investigation by this medium revealed that many of the frustrated prospective corps memebers are students who schooled abroad.

Many of the parents wonder why such frustration on international students who spent so much financially to fly down to the country to serve their fatherland.
“These candidates include international students, I mean students in Diaspora . How can they pay such huge amount to fly into the country to serve their father’s land, leaving everything, including their lucrative jobs, just to be messed up in their own country?
“This is all that NYSC can offer. Imagine their server permanently down, both in your private systems, business centres across the country and even in the NYSC offices.
“If in NYSC offices the server is down, how can business centres operate with same network?
“The deadline is today (Sunday, November 9); so how can our children register?
“What happens to those in Diaspora that spent much amount to come to the country to serve? They should go and come back again next year?
“Where will they go from here? What kind of madness in this country?

“NYSC have cooked and lied about those that registered. Information reaching us is that those they claimed that registered, even registered before the portal was opened. Something has to be done. I think the programme should be .. scrapped and stop the rubbish.

Some parents cried that many of the NYSC candidates even graduated in the past two to three years and still cannot serve because of alleged corrupt practices by the NYSC officials.
Many are of the view that the scheme should be scrapped if such lopsided and corrupt management style could not be tamed.
“Children are risking their lives going up and down as many died on the process.
“Some are being kidnapped in the so-called service to their fatherland. This happens especially to the less privileged families,” Mr. Musa Jimoh, one of the concerned parents lamented.