NSS Releases Pin Codes For Final-Year University Students For 2024/2025 Service Year
- The National Service Scheme has released pin codes for students eligible for the mandatory national service to enroll
- The NSS managment announced a new directive where prospective service personnel are expected to pay an enrollment fee of GH₵40 at ADB bank or GH₵41 using MTN momo
- The Executive Director of the MFWA, Sulemana Braimah has described the directive as unconscionable and called for it be scrapped
The National Service Scheme has released pin codes for final-year university students for the 2024/2025 service year.
The pin codes released on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, enable those eligible for the mandatory national service to enroll using the NSS portal.
Source: UGC
According to the scheme's management, 133,476 pin codes were released to Ghanaian students graduating from accredited universities nationwide.
Ghanaian students who have completed their studies abroad, defaulters and private applicants have also not been left out.
The management directed that all prospective national service personnel log onto the scheme’s website at www.nss.gov.gh to access their pin codes using their unique index numbers and dates of birth.
Prospective service personnel would then have to pay an enrolment fee of GH₵40 at the nearest ADB Bank Ltd branch or GH₵41 using MTN mobile money service to activate the enrollment process.
NSS noted that the registration process will remain open from today, June 19, 2024, until Friday, July 19, 2024 , when all registration processes will close.
The management urged all prospective service personnel to complete their enrollment process within the stipulated time.
It also urged them to be careful when putting in their details to ensure they make no errors that could affect their deployment process.
Sulemana Braimah protests enrolment fees
The Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa, Sulemana Braimah, has protested the payment of enrollment fees for prospective national service personnel.
The directive, the latest addition to the process, has drawn the ire of Braimah, who says it is unconscionable for the scheme to charge enrollment fees for students who are rendering a free service to the country.
He noted that should the students pay, the NSS will make GH₵5.3million without providing additional services to the prospective personnel.
He has called for the enrollment fees to be scrapped immediately
NASPA threatens to strike over unpaid allowances
YEN.com.gh reported that the National Service Personnel Association has threatened to embark on a strike action if their allowance arrears are not paid.
The government has yet to settle its January and February allowance arrears.
Currently, the parties are in talks; however, should their allowances not be paid immediately, NASPA would lay down its tools.
Proofread by Berlinda Entsie, journalist and copy editor at YEN.com.gh
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Source: YEN.com.gh
