The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has reduced its earlier charged online registration fees from N4,000 to N3,000 per prospective corps member.
The NYSC boss, Brigadier-General Johnson Bamidele Olawumi recently made this know to corps members.
Commending the leadership of NYSC for his action, a Coalition of Civil Society Groups under the aegis of Good Governance Forum noted that the digitalisation of the NYSC service scheme has helped to reduce stress and challenges faced by prospective corps members on sourcing information.
In a communiqué issued at the end of a sensitisation workshop held in Benue and Lagos States to further seek ways of helping Nigerian youths achieve their dreams, the group described the decision, as the right step in the right direction as it would re-galvanise the spirit of the Nigerian youth in serving the nation.
President, Coalition of Civil Society Groups, Comrade Bassey Etuk and, Chairman of the organising committee, Igwe Casmir Uche, who signed the communiqué along with Abubakar Ibrahim, the Northern Coordinator, said holding the workshop in the Northern and Southern parts of the country was to help sensitise prospective corps members.
Passing vote of confidence on the NYSC, the group lauded the efforts being made to continually have hitch-free mobilisation of the corps members across the country.
"We call on all stakeholders to embrace this recent initiative as a sign of the good intent of the NYSC DG, just as we also note with great joy the efforts being put by the DG to ensure the safety of corps members across the country for the 2015 general elections," he said.
Source: Guardian