Lost Your NYSC ID Card? Here’s How to Get a Replacement
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) identity card is the official document that establishes a corps member’s identity. This guide explains what to do when that card is lost, stolen or damaged, and how a replacement can be obtained.
Every corps member receives the card after completing registration at the orientation camp, and is expected to carry it at all times, both inside the camp and outside it. It is also one of the documents required when collecting the discharge certificate at the close of the service year.
Even so, corps members misplace the card for a range of reasons. Carelessness accounts for many cases, while theft is another: because robbers frequently target women’s handbags and men’s wallets, an identity card kept in either can disappear that way. A replacement is available to every corps member, although the exercise is not free.
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How a new NYSC identity card is obtained
Each corps member is given an identity card at the NYSC orientation camp. Two categories exist: one is issued for military service and the other for civilian service.
- The NYSC Temporary ID Card: a laminated “state code tag” handed to corps members at the orientation camp, which they use to identify their home state.
- The NYSC Permanent ID Card: a plastic card that the NYSC issues after a few days of training in camp.
A specimen of the permanent NYSC identity card,
The card has to be carried for the whole of the service year, and on the day of the Passing Out Parade each corps member presents it to the NYSC in exchange for a discharge certificate.
Replacing the state code tag, or temporary ID, within your state
The state code tag is used only while corps members are on the grounds of the training camp. Should it be misplaced there, a replacement has to be obtained. Otherwise, buying food at the camp canteen may become impossible, the process of collecting the permanent plastic card may run into difficulties, and the first NYSC allowance (N19,800) could even be forfeited.
To obtain a new tag, report to the registration centre in camp and explain how the original went missing. The NYSC will ask for your state code and other personal details. Once these have been cross-checked, your state code is written in the appropriate font on a piece of white paper cut to ID size, using a black marker, and the official in charge signs at the bottom of the document.
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Steps for replacing a lost plastic, or permanent, NYSC identity card
The straightforward replacement route
Replacing the plastic card is considerably more demanding than replacing the state code tag. Two options are available.
Applying online for a replacement card
A replacement can also be requested through the NYSC portal.
- Visit the NYSC online portal at portal.nysc.org.ng.
- Log in with your email address and password to reach your dashboard.
- From the drop-down menu, click the “Replacement of ID card” link.
- A new page then opens, showing your name, call-up number and state code.
- A dialogue box appears in which you describe what happened.
- Enter your request and press the Send Request button.
- You are taken to the Remita page to make payment; the RRR can be settled at any bank branch near you, or online with a credit card.
- Once payment is complete, upload a police report and a sworn affidavit, then submit the application.
- A new plastic card is afterwards mailed to the local government area where you are serving.
Applying for a replacement without internet access
- Report to the nearest police station and file a police report.
- Take the report to a magistrate court, where it is sworn into a legal document. Make photocopies of both the police report and the sworn affidavit for your records.
- Write an application letter to the NYSC state coordinator, setting out what happened and what you want done.
- Attach the police report and the affidavit to the letter.
- Hand the documents to your local government inspector (LGI).
- Pay the required fee.
- Your LGI will contact you once the new card is ready.
A lost NYSC identity card can therefore be replaced with relative ease, provided the police report and sworn affidavit are in place.
For related guidance, read how the NYSC age limit for mobilisation is calculated.
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