NYSC bars posting engineers to teach in secondary schools

The National Youth Service Corps has concluded plans to halt the posting of engineers to secondary schools and other places of primary assignment different from Engineering Institutions.

The agreement was reached by the Directorate of NYSC and Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).

Speaking at the Pre-Inauguration stakeholders’ workshop of the 30th President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers held yesterday in Abuja, the President of COREN, Engineer Kashim A. Ali, disclosed that the Council has secured an agreement with the Director General of NYSC to what he referred to as prevention of wrong training of Engineers.

He also said that the Director of Mobilization of NYSC has also been notified of the new development and they have fashioned modalities for its success.

''Posting engineers during their service year to places they will not benefit is depriving them the opportunity of training and by implication the country is losing,'' Ali said. ''The DG of NYSC agreed with us and directed the Director of Mobilization to ensure that engineers are posted to only engineering institutions. To help him, the Director of Mobilization requested that we should assist to give them the names of engineering organizations in all the states of the federation so that when they are doing their posting they will send them to such places.''