The chairman of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) National Governing Board, Chief Gordon Bozimo, has said that the computerisation of the mobilisation process of prospective corps members will help to reduce hardship previously associated with their registering for the one year national service.

Speaking to journalists at the directorate’s headquarters in Abuja, Bozimo noted that before now corps members had to travel to their respective institutions of graduation to collect their call-up letters with the attendant risks, including incidence of road accidents.

He pointed out that with the online registration, prospective corps members could now print their call-up letters online.

The chairman noted that in the past, those who lost their call-up letters had to present police report and sworn affidavit, and would wait to be mobilised in another batch.

Bozimo however clarified that with the online registration, prospective corps members could reprint a lost call-up letter wherever they may be and avoid all the hassles or inconveniences that are common with the old registration process.

He further explained that for effective implementation of the project, all the necessary hardware would be deployed in the NYSC’s headquarters, its states secretariats, orientation camps and all its local government offices nationwide.

He said the trainings would be conducted for members of staff of the scheme that would be involved in the handling of the computerisation project.

The governing board chairman also announced that Ebola testing devices would be deployed to orientation camps during the next orientation course.