Below is what a student of Adeyemi College of Education(Affilliated to OAU for degree students) who graduated in the year 2013 but have yet to be mobilized for NYSC wrote on his college facebook page

The fatal fate of an ACE graduand.

For many, deciding on an institution to shape the future is a test on its own, you compare your ambitions to the tens of schools that can help achieve a qualitative scholarly experience. In essence, for most students, deciding to attend Adeyemi College of Education (ACE), the foremost and unarguably best college of education in the country is pride and that its degree program is awarded by Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) via an affiliation is icing on top.

In February 2009, hundreds of freshmen converge with excitement for orientation to begin a 4-year journey to obtaining a degree. Our course work and tests are vetted and moderated by our parent institution, OAU making sure they are up to par of their standard. In fact, everything regarding our degree program has to be approved by our parent institution. We were a sister school to a respected and reputable institution in the country and we couldn’t be more proud.

Every student had one goal: becoming a graduate. For most, it goes on to securing a dream job, advance in our academic pursuits, starting a family, contributing to the advancement of education and the society at large.

And like most tertiary institutions in the country, we’ve had a few setbacks in form of strikes, some lasting more than a semester but we’ve persevered to make ourselves, our parents and guardians, and our school proud.

Last year, in August 2014, we wrote our final paper with high hopes, ready to continue on a laid out plan;
undertake the next phase of our lives. To begin, we have to serve our great Nation in the Youth Corp as directed by the Federal Government by decree No. 24 of 22nd May, 1973. With the hope that we get to honour the age-old tradition of serving, imbibing the spirit of self-reliance and carry out the objectives of the program, we waited.

For a year now, we have heard one excuse after another, from delay in processing our results to postponement due to elections. Putting a stop to our plans; we cannot be employed, we cannot advance our education, and our parents who by now expect more can’t all because we don’t have a National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) certificate. Our colleagues from other institutions and from our parent institution who graduated much later than we did have been mobilized for the program. The onus is on OAU to mobilize us for the program but is seems to us we are being handled as second fiddle.

A week ago, we were informed by the Students’ Affairs Department of ACE that our names were being sent to OAU for mobilization and asked to attend a conference in school where Mr Andy Obaro, a representative from NYSC, Abuja spoke about the aims and objectives of the program. We were excited, rejuvenated, and started making new plans, preparing for service. It was to our utter dismay when we learnt a day later that we would have to wait again till next year.

The news was disconcerting and has shattered any
modicum of hope we might have had. We do not
understand this decision, the registration for the
program closes Wednesday, September 2nd 2015 and the institution still has time to forward the name of its graduating students as promised. The school has announced about 200 students who graduated in the 2012/2013 Harmattan semester and have even waited longer have been mobilized. This rigmarole has not fostered trust putting us in doubt about our future and that of the new graduates who wrote their final exams this year.

The College since being promoted to university status by the previous administration and that decision being rescinded by the new administration has left the school without proper administration. Professor Olukoya Ogen recently reinstated as Provost of the College has been contacted and has promised to take immediate action.

We are concerned for our wellbeing if we’d have to wait for what could be another couple of months without a job, dependent on our pressed relatives in this economy.

We implore the administration of OAU to address this
issue expediently and allow us join our colleagues in the 2015 NYSC Batch B mobilization to deter further setback in our life and academics. We also implore the general public to come to our aid

well, seems the problem is from the new administration. All colleges promoted to the university level will be revert back