INTRO: National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) was established in Nigeria by General Yakubu Dan-Yuma Gowon, the former Head of State of Nigeria with his Decree No. 24 of May 22nd 1973. This establishing law of the programme was later reviewed in 1993 by General Ibrahim Babangida with a 23-section Decree No.51 of 16th June 1993. The programme is compulsory. It mobilizes and deploys Nigerian youths that graduated from universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education to different parts of the country to serve the fatherland for normal minimum of one year. In the service year, they could be posted to ministries, departments and agencies of government, hospitals, farms, schools, sports development centres, private sectors of Nigerian economy, etc. At the end of the service year, the participant is issued with a certificate in recognition of the service rendered to the country. The certificate, or the exemption letter given to those above the age of 30 years is compulsory for job placement
...so, why ask why?