In a bid to guard against age falsification said to be rampant among academic institutions, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said that it will start including the date of birth of corps members on its certificate.

The NYSC's boss, Shuaibu Ibrahim said, "We have observed that some institutions present over-aged graduates for mobilisation. Such graduates falsify their age in order to avoid appearing on the exemption list.

"Such acts will not be condoned and the scheme will not hesitate to apply appropriate sanctions on any institution involved.

"As a further step toward curtailing age falsification, we have decided to include date of birth on the certificate of national service and exclusion letter.

"While the scheme will continue to sanction erring institutions, we are working on introducing a platform on the NYSC portal where the corps producing institution will be required to upload the list of their matriculated students every year."