Court awards N1m damages to ex-corps member, declares NYSC skirt ban unconstitutional
Court awards N1m damages to ex-corps member, declares NYSC skirt ban unconstitutional The federal high court in Abuja has declared the National Youth Service Corps’ (NYSC) restrictions on female corps members to wear skirts in line with their religious beliefs as unconstitutional. In a landmark judgment delivered on June 13, 2025, Hauwa Yilwa, judge of the federal high court, held that constraining female participants in the scheme to wear trousers which contradicts their sincerely held religious convictions — amounted to a breach of their rights to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution and relevant…