PRESS STATEMENT Presented by Concerned Higher National Diploma Graduates/Students for Fairness and Inclusion in Collaboration with the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Lagos JCC. Wednesday, 12th November 2025 Venue: Lagos State Headline: NYSC Refused to Comply to the minister of education. Directive Subject: Mobilization Crisis of Full-Time HND Graduates with Part-Time ND Background: A Call for Justice, Transparency, and Inclusion, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press, Distinguished Guests, and Fellow Nigerians. We stand before you today not in defiance, but in desperation a desperation born out of broken promises, bureaucratic silence, and systemic exclusion. We are the Concerned Higher National Diploma (HND) Graduates/Students for Fairness and Inclusion, joined by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Lagos Joint Campus Committee (JCC), to demand justice for thousands of full-time HND graduates who previously completed their National Diploma (ND) programs through part-time study.Despite fulfilling all academic requirements and being publicly affirmed as eligible for National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) mobilization by the Honourable Minister of Education, Dr. Olatunji Alausa, in a press release dated 2nd March 2025, we continue to face exclusion from the NYSC portal. This affirmation was further supported by official NYSC correspondence dated 26th September 2025, which clarified that our ND part-time mode was institutionally approved and should not disqualify us from mobilization.We were assured through our Student Affairs Officers and direct communication with NYSC officials that we would be mobilized in Batch B Stream 1 and Stream 2. We were instructed to register during Batch B2, with the promise that our status would change from Excluded to Call-Up within days. We complied. Yet, instead of mobilization, we were issued Exclusion Letters. In response, we submitted formal complaints and made recommendations. NYSC responded with a new directive: surrender the exclusion letters through our institutions, who would then re-upload our information for proper mobilization in Batch C1 2025. We complied again, in good faith. Our institutions forwarded the documents to NYSC as instructed.However, as Batch C1 registration commenced, our mobilization status remains unchanged. Worse still, we were misclassified as part-time students on the NYSC portal, despite being full-time graduates. This misclassification threatens our eligibility and contradicts the resolutions reached between NYSC and our union representatives. To compound the injustice, we were instructed through NYSC Zonal Officers and our institutional Student Affairs Officers to make another payment for JAMB admission letter and result slip via the JAMB portal, supposedly to facilitate our mobilization. We complied with this directive, even though all of us had already made the required payments during our initial JAMB registration. This redundant financial burden adds insult to injury and raises serious concerns about transparency and accountability. We have tried every possible method dialogue, documentation, institutional engagement, and legal consultation. All have proven abortive. We have written to the Director-General of NYSC, and to Femi Falana (SAN), seeking legal advice and representation. We have submitted evidence, including: The press release from the Ministry of Education, NYSC’s acknowledgement letter dated 28th, March 2025, NBTE’s portal upload directive dated 6th May, 2025 NYSC’s mobilization instruction dated 26th September, 2025 NYSC’s zonal officers instruction on another payment through JAMB portal dated 1st November, 2025 Yet, we remain excluded. This is not just an administrative failure it is a violation of our rights, a betrayal of trust, and a threat to our future. We are therefore issuing a 72-hour ultimatum to NYSC and all relevant authorities to correct the misclassification, refund unjust payments, and commence