Section 9: Placing of members of the service corps.

(1) The Directorate shall determine the place and time each person qualified to be registered under the provisions of this Act shall be deployed.
(2) The Directorate shall register each member of the service corps and shall deploy him for national service in the following undertakings and projects, that is in-
(a) hospitals;
(b) road construction;
(c) farming;
(d) water schemes;
(e) surveying and mapping;
(f) social and economic services;
(g) teaching;
(h) food storage and eradication of pests;
(i) rehabilitation of destitutes and the disabled;
(j) development of sports;
(k) all government departments and statutory corporations suitable for new graduates;
(l) development projects of local councils;
(m) the private sector of the Nigerian economy; and
(n) such other undertakings and projects as the President may, by order, determine.
(3) For the purposes of this section, priority shall be given to service in any of the undertakings or projects mentioned in subsection (2) of this section situated within such appropriate urban or rural areas of the Federation as may be selected by the Directorate.
(4) Before placing any member of the service corps in any of the undertakings or projects aforementioned, the Directorate shall take into consideration the qualifications of each member, vacancies then existing, and priorities of national needs.
(5) In the discharge of its functions under this section, the Directorate shall not be compelled in any manner whatsoever to deploy a member of the service corps to any particular undertaking or project.
(6) An employer of corps members, whether in the private or public sector, pursuant to the provisions of this section, shall be required to expose the corps members to gainful working experience.