Types of Award

Types of Award for Excellent Performance during the Service Year
  • President Honours Award 
  • State Award of Merit
  •  Local Government Award 
  • Commendation Letters
CRITERIA AND PROCESS OF SELECTION OF AWARD WINNERS 
The NYSC President's Honours Award is a major programme in the annual calendar of events of the National Youth Service Corps. It was instituted in 1974 to recognize and reward excellence in behaviour and performance amongst the corps members. 
The tradition was maintained until 1998 when the event was suspended due to logistic reasons but revived in 2005. The award winners usually emerge from a rigorous selection process carefully carried out by a National Selection Committee. 
The members are drawn from relevant Institutions and Agencies such as the Presidency, Federal Ministry of Youth Development, the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Police, Nigerian Employers' Consultative Association (NECA), The Committee of Vice Chancellors, The Committee of Rectors of Polytechnics, Citizenship and Leadership Training Centre, Ex-NYSC Management staff and the NYSC Director of Corps Welfare and Inspection Department, who serves as member/Secretary to the National Selection Committee. The assessment covers all segments of the service programme, requiring a high degree of objectivity. Every award winner is expected to have distinguished himself/herself in all the four cardinal phases of the service year - the Orientation/induction course; the Primary Assignment; th e Secondary Assignment (Community Development Service); and the windingup/passing-out activities. Above all, he/she would have conceived/initiated and/or executed a personal community service project that would benefit his/her host community, tangibly. Emphasis is, therefore, placed on achievements that are of durable benefit to the host community. In addition, such personal qualities as character, sense of duty, drive and determination, reliability, initiative and resourcefulness, command and leadership, team work, special contributions, self-confidence, and emotional poise are assessed and weighted in concrete terms. The assessment of the performance of each nominee is therefore based on the report and records of these attributes and concrete achievements. 

Those so selected would have received the Local Government or State Honours Awards to qualify for consideration at the national level. Thereafter, the nominees are sent to the National Selection Committee under strict confidentiality for further scrutiny. 

The selection process places greater emphasis on merit and also on a truly national basis regardless of the number of winners emerging from a particular state of deployment. The President, Federal Republic of Nigeria usually presides over the event to confer the honours award on the recipients. 

The award attracts the following: 
  • A National Certificate of honour duly signed by His Excellency, the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria 
  • A gold medal An automatic employment in the Federal Civil Service Cash prize 
 Since the inception of the scheme 37 years ago, a total of 891 ex-corps members have been conferred with the HonoursAward and with the 51 recipients at the 2010 ceremony, the figure increases to 942. As a side attraction to the ceremony, there is usually an exhibition of works of art, fabrications, inventions and engineering models produced by corps members, as well as a display of agricultural products from some NYSC farms, and samples of goods produced in some small-scale industries built and operated by the NYSC but its quite unfortunate that since 2010 the scheme has not experienced National awards.

Comments

  1. Good one!! Am presently serving in Rivers state..started in October 2015 and aspiring to initiate a personal project that will be beneficial to my host community

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  2. Is there any news about 2015 awards?

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  3. I personally need to know some thing on ground that is there any news about 2012-2013 (batches A,B AND C)The current list that out yesterday on 26/04/2016 on Daily trust page 9.


    awards

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  4. Rabiu Ubale Gololo,,,,I personally need to know some thing on ground that is there any news about 2012-2013 (batches A,B AND C)The current list that out yesterday on 26/04/2016 on Daily trust page 9.

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