
Osei Assibey Antwi, NSS Executive Director

The National Service Scheme (NSS) has released the postings of a total of 115,240 prospective service personnel who enrolled to undertake their mandatory national service for the 2022/2023 service year.
A statement signed by the NSS Executive Director, Osei Assibey Antwi, said the prospective service personnel include the year 2022 Ghanaian graduates from accredited tertiary institutions in the country, defaulters who submitted their applications for posting and private registrants.
The NSS Executive Director has therefore advised prospective service personnel to log on to the Scheme’s website http://www.portal.nss.gov.gh to check their placements.
He also notified the public that printing of appointment letters by service personnel and endorsements by respective user agencies can be done from Monday, October 17, 2022.
He, however, disclosed that validation and registration at all regional centres across the country would begin on Monday, October 24, 2022, and continue till Friday, December 30, 2022, to accommodate prospective service personnel who are yet to complete their academic programmes.
“To minimise excessive crowds at the registration centres, all national service personnel must schedule an appointment online and visit the validation centres on the scheduled date and time for validation with strict adherence to the COVID-19 protocol guidelines,” he directed.
Mr Assibey Antwi also directed all graduates who have been duly posted and accepted by their user agencies and validated by the NSS to begin their national service on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.
He entreated all deployed national service personnel to accept their postings as part of their civic obligations to contribute meaningfully to national development.
Accept postings
In an exclusive chat with the Daily Statesman, the NSS Executive Director advised the newly posted personnel to accept their placements as part of their contributions towards the socio-economic development of the country.
“The NSS postings is based on the set skills of the graduates and the usefulness… By this, you stand tall in dedicating your unflinching love to serve in any capacity and within any geographical location,” he said.
Consequently, he advised them to desist from engaging middlemen to change their postings, and urged them to focus on excelling at the tasks that will be assigned when they assume duty.
He stated that his outfit had not contracted the services of third parties to carry out re-postings, hence those who patronise such avenues do so at their own risk.
“Some will be posted to urban centres and the cities whilst others will be posted to rural communities and villages. When I was posted to a village some years ago, I thought the Scheme was punishing me, not knowing they were preparing me so that when I become a director at a higher place, I am able to make informed decisions because I have tasted both the city and the village life,” he recounted
The NSS Executive Director also reiterated that national service is a mandatory requirement for anyone who has gone through tertiary education, warning that those who evade the process may not be eligible to work in public institutions in the country.