NYSC Age Limit Calculation – Explained!

I’m sure you must have heard that once you are 30 years of age, you will not be able to partake in the National Youths service corps programme.

Below is the details about NYSC age limit. 

According to the NYSC age limit rule, once you graduate at 30 or above, you will not be able to participate in NYSC.

You will be given an exemption letter after registration so that you can move on with your life. This exemption letter is equivalent to the NYSC discharged certificate. 

Let me give you a scenario.

Lola graduated at 28 or 29 years old. Due to some delay or circumstances, Lola could not go for NYSC immediately she graduated. Now Lola is ready to serve but she’s above 30.

According to the rule, Lola can still serve because she graduated before 30.

The NYSC age limit is not about your age right now, it’s about the exact age you were when you graduated. So if you graduated before 30 years of age, you will serve your fatherland and be collecting 33k every month.

However, if you graduate at 30 or above, you will have to move on and get an exemption letter.

21 thoughts on “NYSC Age Limit Calculation – Explained!”

  1. Good day,
    I am a US student in Washington D.C. ,trying to register for NYSC. How can I register? Where and How do I do the biometric registration?

      1. what of people that enter 30 and did change of date of birth last year nko and they were 30 before they does it does it mean jamb
        will nt rectify for them

    1. Ali Abubakar Ismail

      Please, my question is that, I graduated on March, 18 2021, and my date of birth is May 28, 19991. Can I still serve?

  2. good evening ,is it base on the year we graduated or the year our results get to the school Senate, eg I was 30th on March 19th 2018,i did my final exam in 2017,but the Senate sit on my results in June 2018, on my notifications it was stated on my results was ready in 2016/2017 can I still serve

  3. Hi,
    Can i apply for exemption?
    I graduated at 29 and did not served due to some issue..
    But now am 30
    Please answer me.
    I prefer to collect exemption than to serve.

  4. Please, my date of birth backdated with 2 days, my date of birth was Sunday, 13/11/1994, but what am seeing is 11/11/1994 which was Friday, could it be that nysc don’t use birthday that falls to weekend or it’s a mistake

  5. Hello, does NYSC use the age on your WAEC or the age on your Jamb .
    Let’s assume on your WAEC is 1988 due to mistake and your Jamb is 1991 , which one will NYSC take?

  6. Good morning Lola, I graduated @ 30 years dot. I registered for NYSC and have gotten my green card but the challenge is that when I was printing the card it appeared that my DOB was reduced and I have applied for a change which is yet to be effected. Please is there any possibility for me to still b deployed. Remember I’ve printed my green card

  7. good day…… i will clock 30yrs by september 2022

    but i graduated at age of 29yrs last year

    will i go for service ?

    our result is not yet out

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