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Getting a good Primary Assignment posting may help U get a kob at the end of the service year.

1. Come on the first day of camp
2. Join the Football/Drama or whatever Team for the State NYSC
3. Let the NYSC post you... that way U are sure the Org asked for U

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Yea its a very important advice.
I noticed that NYSC is something like a small dark line(1yr) that we pass through without preparation, without even knowing what you would meet there.
I think there are a lot of opportunities for corpers during NYSC, if they have a good master plan for they goto camp.

For example you could do some bizz runnss like taking digi pics/video's for copres in camp. Someone even thought of an idea of carring a mobile VSAT to the NYSC camp so that copers can brows the net.
There a lot you can do, just be creative in your thinking, and ask the rigfht people the right questions.

Well, you guyz are just forming abii?
I hope you know that most nigerians to stay at their Place of primanry assingment again?
Well, i advice you come in earlier that the camp date to familiarise your self in town ( im trying to avoid saying that you should jump fence during camp) and your chances.
While in camp, shine your eyes, ears and face, most runzz after camp begins in camp..sooo
In your platoon, be active, be nice but dont be too forward.
attend most of these seminars in camp.
After daily camp activities, dont just sit in your room and argue soccer, try networking with others..Watch out for those extra quiet guyz in camp.. they usually know whats up.
I can assure you of a 50% chance of better survival than someone who doesnt do these.
Gb!

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Please, I learnt that digital equipments are not allowed on the camps. I have a multimedia system which I intent to use to run some biz such as digital photography, webdesign and video editing & CD production. Will I be allowed to operate all these?

I think its allowed. U might only need to take some kinda permission to do bizz.
Thats all!

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When exactly is the date for the next NYSC mobilaztion?and is it true that call up letters will now carry canditate passport photograph.

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Its gonna be sometime in august..maybe early or mid auguust or there about.
I dont think the rumour is true.. so many rumour ( especially allowy increase, NYSC scrapping etc ) came up during my time too...So be prepared!
Come to think of it...Maybe WAEC don teach dem sense too o ( WAEC certificates now carry photographs!)
Any How sha...prepare to make the best of it.
Those 3 week might just be the turning point in your life!
Gb!

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Many thanks for the prompt reply Gb.I so mush appreciate it.....i'll sure take to ur useful advice.

Thanks pa.
jbreal

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Hi All,

You guys are really making me have a re-think about this NYSC. I personally dont like to hear about it. Given the chance I will not touch it with a ten-foot pole. But having read all that you have posted am trying to have a re-think and get myself prepared against the next camping and make the best out of it.

Thanks all. You are great!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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thank God the room is making the right effect...
if you miss everything NYSC, please dont miss the 3 weeks camp.. and the passing out parade.
The passing out in my case reminded me of the day i wrote my last paper.
i knew i was off a hook, and i was moving on.
It was the last opportunity that all of us gathered together to achieve a common goal.
It was the end of a phase in my life.. the first day of the rest of my life.
I knew these people i saw were bound for greatness, but i didnt know which of them will mean so much to me in the future.

Most political , religious and personal networking of the future would come from this..
i was confident we were going somewhere.. but i didnt know where.
i wish i could see the future, so i could snap pix with the right people ( e.g. having an old memory pix with the future presido wont be a bad idea )

i wish i knew what was coming, so i could make the right contact.

Its something ill always live to remember..
well..let me tell you that btw these 2 periods ( 3 weeks camp and POP..the thing takes a lot of sacrifice oo.. especially if you choose to stay kwam all through and you grew up in places like lag, abj,ph etc)
you will almost assume everything in your first 4 months, question everything in your next 4 months.. and accept everything in your last months ( knowing that the storm will be over soon).

Be prepared to hear all kinda rumour in camp of allowy increase and NYSC scrapping after your set.. and when you resume on your primary assignment, they will scare you from travelling with stories like... 40 corpers died last set on their way to lagos... after camp.. 13 were robbed..
Note: Some of these stories are true.. but ...spare me the exaggeration!

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For those who get posted to capital cities, service is okay. Electricity, water, social life which is actually beneficial in the future etc.

For people like me who were posted to the most God-forsaken, crocodile (yes, crocodile!), mosquito and gnat infested holes in the rainforests of Bayelsa State, to teach Math and Physics to people who were not interested in my efforts at educating them, camp was okay, travelling out of Bayelsa State was wonderful, and STAYING OUT of Bayelsa State was the bomb. Hell, I was in boarding school for five years. Would I not be insane to want to add another year of (in this case, retrogressive) stress to my life? I spent most of the service year outside that state trying to focus on gaining admission to schools. I went to the POP with a vow in my mind: once I collected my discharge allowance, I would not look back while leaving that place. I kept my promise to the letter.

Personally, I think that no matter what anyone says, the concept is good while the implementation has been terribly flawed. All that talk of sacrifice, endurance, service to the nation and other noble sounding words roll off like me water on a duck's back. Three weeks? Okay. One year?

Try schooling and thriving in a country whose official language is NOT English and where the skin colour of the populace is not the same as yours. That's endurance.

Try combining a job with full time education in the afore-mentioned country while other people are going to the opera, parks, on strolls and to the cinemas, because you know that a lot of what you achieve tomorrow depends on what you do today. They can afford luxuries-you can't. That's sacrifice.

Try thinking of the fact that the struggles one faces on a daily basis will give way soon, and one will be able to give a whole lot back to the youth, and other unemployed graduates in the country from whence he or she originally came because one has a greater mine of knowledge from which forward-thinking ideas can be tapped. When all that comes to pass, I think THAT is serving the nation.

NYSC? Let's just say that if the program is scrapped tomorrow, I will be one of the first to hold a feast and organise a thanksgiving service.

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@teslimanif

If that doesn't work out, what next?

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i have prepared my mind for the other side of the coin i.e if it doesn't work out . i will be the best that i can be @ any place i am taken to [/b]

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thank you wild3jeff i will abide by your instructions

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" The morning drills, seminars etc are all good, BUT only participate in the Man 'O' War activities that you feel you can safely handle. Do not risk injury (or your life) by trying to be a Superman: it is not worth it.
Have fun there...and be sensible about it."
I think its very important.. one Platoon 1 guy broke his arm during their Man-O-War activity...NYSC is over now.. and he carries his "cross" everywhere he goes.
The guy na butty, but he dey try form Vandam , perhaps to impress one new catch!!.
I think the most arduous task there is climbing the rope over, walking on the rope and walking in btw those trees!!.

Shh.. wetin me i do be say i hold the rope and i took a pix!!
i went under the barbed wire and i took a shot... in btw the drums, i took a shot too.
if u see my album, u go think say na me do pass..
na wisdom tortoise dey take survive for animal kingdom oooo.
a word is enough

well.. if ure not the type that enjoys mass meals , or shunting the line for food, i advice u go with ur cornflakes and fast food ( not like indomie o coz dem no go allow u plug anything for room---except u choose to break the rules like ... did)Alternatively, come with money coz u will need to visit mammy 24/7.

Hey.. no enter camp with first 100, coz dem dey scrutinize those ones ganan.. For my time, first 100 no come in with camera, iron spoon etc.. dem seize everything at the gate. But as many heads dey gather.. they will only screen ur credentials , not ur bag. Enter camp with enough passport photographs..and be ready to buy a rubber spoon for 50 naira, rubber bucket for 250 ( 200 plus paint to write ur name against it- 50 naira)
what elsee ooo..
if you wanna meet many people and have fun, go with two pairs of everything...coz someone will always need anything extra u come with.
You can penetrate into anyone during the registration coz anyone is as nervous as u are..ure all first timers. After registration, many corpers seldom need serious help!!! ( meaning GSM calls sells most within first week!!!- business minded folks, take note!)

plenty tori dey.. but seeing is believing.

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Reminds me of when a Nigerian Jackie Chan was trying to outdo himself at one of the obstacles during one of those Man 'O' War activities while we were camping in that hole in Kaiama, Bayelsa State. His arm was wrenched from its socket while he was scaling a wall, and no one in the medical team knew what to do when he was brought to them. It took an agonisingly painful ten or so minutes before word went out to the soldiers in the camp. That was when one of them came out from the quarters and simply slapped the arm back into its rightful postion. That was the wakeup call for me: no killing myself over activities whose relevance I knew nothing about. I kept away from most of them afterwards.
When something went wrong with the rope bridge high up in the trees while she was crossing it, my cousin fell and broke her arm. That was in Kebbi State. The medical team didn't set the bones properly, and till today, her arm is visibly bent at the point of fracture.
Just do what you feel comfortable with...not more.
Note: this is not to scare any potential corpers. It's just to advise them to be sensible. Camp is fun..but not ALL that!

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thanks GBOLAHAN and wildjeff

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That reminds me: traders in camp are there to exploit you. Always have that at the back of your mind when dealing with them.
You will be going to camp in the rainy season, so LAMINATE ALL your necessary documents. That was one of the wisest things I have ever done in my life.
Beware of the indigent young women . While I was in Bayelsa State, we camped in Kaiama. There was a saying among the male corpers: 'In Bayelsa you can have one girl for 5 naira, but in Kaiama, you can have 5 girls for 1 naira' Translation? Some indigent ladies may see you as a means of getting in touch with the real world (if you are posted to a remote village in the middle of God knows where!), and could use every trick in the book to rope you. The oldest? Cheap or free sex. Result? Pregnancies, forced marriages, and a number of very interesting STDs .
Be wise and be safe.

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STDs are interesting? wonderful . pls explain.

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