Nigeria, March 7 -- Nigerian graduates seeking to register for the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) must now present a certificate issued by the Nigerian Education Repository and Databank (NERD), authenticating their certificates.

In August, the Nigerian government directed all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government to comply with the NERD policy introduced.

The policy introduced the National Credential Verification Service (NCVS) and the National Credential Number (NCN) for all certificates issued by Nigerian tertiary institutions to verify and authenticate academic certificates of staff and new hires in all government organisations.

The policy directed the MDAs to, from 6 October 2025, begin to use the...