MY NYSC DIARY

Dear Otondo, congratulation on your call-up letter. Hope you are good and ready to go to camp. Wish you a safe journey. And don't forget to take along the following: Original Call-up letter : scan it first for future reference and make photocopies plus your original to camp. Your final year Student ID Card: this should be a most recent and the expiry date should be at least a month after orientation camp. Statement of Result from your school : for some people that have graduated a longer time, certificate may be available and this should be taken instead of statement of result. I will like to tell you here that all NYSC camps have the signature of the approving officer of all Institutions approved for NYSC. Passport photograph: at least 30 Your personal items Wish you a successful award winning business year.

My dear Prospective corps members, hope you are ready for camp. It's the last Batch for the year. S/NO Event Date 1 Registration of Foreign/Local Trained Nigerian Graduates. 20th August - 12th October, 2014  2 Submission of Senate Approved List. 22nd - 27th September, 2014  3 Briefing of Final year students/Prospective Corps Members in all CPIs. 29th September - 3rd October, 2014  4 Uploading of Senate Approved List by ICT 13th - 14th October, 2014  5 Notification to Prospective Corps Members and CPIs on the status of their Senate Approved List 15th - 16th October, 2014  6 Printing of Call-Up Letters by Prospective Corps Members. 28th - 30th October, 2014  7 2014 Batch 'C' Orientation Course. 4th - 25th November, 2014  I wish all pr

NYSC Mobilization Time Table For 2014 Batch B S/NO Event Date 1 Registration of Foreign Nigerian Graduates. 14th April, 2014 - 11th July, 2014  2 Batch 'B' pre-Mobilization, Deployment & Relocation Officers' Workshop. 6th - 9th May, 2014  3 Submission of Masterlist by Corps Producing Institution/Screening/Vetting by Mob. officers. 2nd - 7th June, 2014  4 Delivery of Print-outs to CPIs 16th - 18th June, 2014  5 Return of Corrected Printouts by Institutions to Mobilization Dept. 25th - 27th June, 2014  6 Briefing of Final year Students/Prospective Corps members in CPIs. 7th - 11th July, 2014  7 Delivery of Call-up letters to CPIs. 28th - 31st July, 2014  8 2014 Batch 'B' Orientation Programmes 5th - 26th August, 2014

Been a while I do corper things o. Hope my blog is still relevant on corpers issues. Surfing the net this evening, I saw this info on NYSC site and I'm sharing with you. PUBLIC NOTICE The following are important notice for general public:- ON-LINE REGISTRATION FOR ALL PROSPECTIVE CORPS MEMBERS: This is to inform all prospective corps members that with effect from the 2014 Batch 'C' orientation, all prospective corps members will register on-line and also print their call-up letters on-line. There will be no need for them to travel to their respective schools to collect call-up letters before reporting at the orientation camp. Operational details of this will be made known soon. RUMOUR ABOUT 2014 BATCH 'C' : This is to inform members of the public that the rumour making rounds that there will be no 2014 Batch 'C' is false For your information, the 2014 Batch 'C' will commence on 4th November, 2014 and end on 25th November, 2014. MANAGE

I had a swell time today at CBN Yenagoa branch as I was handed my long awaited certificate. I will tell you more about it but first see some pictures CBN_NYSC Venture award certificate Representative of CBN Yenagoa Branch giving me the award.

The format keeps changing, but this is the present one. PERSONAL   [ YRCDS ] PROPOSAL FORMAT 1.        Topic 2.        Objectives 3.        Durative of objectives 4.        Statement of problem 5.        Duration of project 6.        Location of project 7.        Target   beneficianis 8.        Source of funding 9.        Estimated Cost 10.    Contractual Cost   11.                        STEPS                                PROCEDURE                                                                    12.    Documentation 13.    Supervisor - Name, Designations and   Office 14.    Closing = [ Signature--                  [    Name--                  [    State Code--                  [ Date----

Corpers weoh, your friend, the award winning girl is here again. Hope you are not bored with all these award articles? Anyway, that's the major theme of this blog: "to provide information for serving corps members on opportunities and awards available for them during their service year, and to provide answers to any question they have during service year". Therefore, if you have passed out or exempted from the NYSC service year, just simply head to www.onlinebiz4real.com where you will find more information for you. Back to my corper friend, this article is to guide you on how to apply for NYSC-CBN venture awards. The NYSC-CBN venture awards is a competition for corps members write a business plan and compete both at state level and national level. The competition is run per batch in all the states. For each batch, each serving corps member have the grace up to the day of passing out to submit. The awards are categorised thus: STATE AWARD for CBN-NYSC Award 1

Dear corps members, I hope you are doing well, and by now you have settled in your PPA's. My post today is on how you can start your award winning CDS project. Introduction Cds projects is one of the four cardinal programmes of NYSC which are: Orientation Primary assignment Year round CDS-YRCD - this is the Individual CDS projects Winding up/passing out programe Out of these 4 programmes, it is only the Individual CDS project that it is not compulsory. Since it is not compulsory, it has been discovered that most corps members don't take it seriously, therefore NYSC attach awards to it to recognise corps members that dare to be different. The awards are in 3 major categories: State government award - issued most times by the Governor Local government award State Coordinator's award. Of the three, only State coordinator's award does not come with money but just certification. So how do you go about this award winning projects? HOW TO START NYSC CDS PROJ

Hey, before you  say stale gist, do you know? Are you aware that there is a new DG in NYSC? And if you say Yes, what do you know about him? Anyway on a lighter note, it was very funny to me when I was discussing with my pastor on sunday and he told me that they have a new DG(cos he works at NYSC).  I was surprised and thinking in my mind, I think I need to have serving corps mebers who are informed to give me this first hand information. So, if you are stil serving and you know you have correct info for me, to make this blog more interactive, kindly send a mail to olukemiATokemscube.com. Thanks. My own contribution to this blog, will always be from an experienced perspective - sharing advices and experiences to make your service year a better one. So,otondo get ready to pen and share your stories. Am waiting. Back to my topic, let me give you the details of the new DG as sourced from www.nysc.gov.ng Profile Of Brig-Gen JB OLAWUMI FSS MSS CM psc (+) psc (joint) fdc (fellow D

Dear would be ex corps member, one year ago, I was calling u an otondo, but now you've become most senior. Seniority comes with a responsibility anyway. It's time to take stock. How have you spent your NYSC year? Are you going back the same way you came, less than you came, or more than you came? Have you added any meaningful impact to your life? Will they really miss you in your PPA? Can you boldly say "I came, I saw and I conquered"? Did you waste your service year? Or your service year was a waste? Are you going home with a trophy/Award?  If yes, kindly share your story on this blog to encourage others that it is possible. Send a mail to olukemiATokemscube.com Time to take stock!!!

NYSC Management has approved the following programme of activities for the 2013 Batch 'A' Winding-up/Passing-out exercise: Tuesday 28th January, 2014 - Wednesday 5th February, 2014 Job Creation and Awareness Week, Sensitization of Corps Members on Job Creation/Opportunities after Service. This will be done at the Zonal level using relevant officers. Lectures/Seminars on Job opport