The Director-General of the National Service Authority (NSA), Felix Gyamfi, has disclosed that 50 tertiary institutions, including 18 with expired or no accreditation, will no longer be allowed to participate in the national service program.
Speaking on Sunday, June 15, 2025, Mr. Gyamfi explained that these institutions had previously been permitted to present graduates for national service, despite not meeting the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission’s (GTEC) accreditation requirements.
“Already the GTEC approval process has mentioned or identified about 50 schools that will not be allowed to do national service,” he revealed. “For about 18 of them, they have never had accreditation at all but in the past, they were doing national service.”
To address these lapses and strengthen transparency at the NSA, especially in the wake of the recent ‘ghost names’ scandal, Mr. Gyamfi said new measures have been implemented.
He noted that henceforth, GTEC will have the final say on which institutions—public or private—qualify for national service eligibility.
“From now we are going to be very transparent about it. I have sent every list of schools that we have received including the private people to GTEC. If GTEC says you are not in the list of their accredited universities, there’s no way you will be allowed to do national service either as a school or individual,” he stressed, adding that the verified list will be made public in the coming days.
