MY NYSC DIARY

Once you are through at the gate, you will be taken to another point for proper registration. Registration is the first and most important thing at the orientation camp, just like at any other place. At the registration venue, you are expected to provide the following things: Official NYSC Camp Requirements : 1. Your final year Student ID Card 2. Notification of Result from your School (Original and Photocopies) 3. Passport Photograph (Take as many copy as you can but you will only need a few) 4. Your original call-up letter (This will be taken and not returned to you, take photocopies along too) The forms that will be handed to you and attach your passport are very easy to fill. Fill them correctly, because if you make mistakes on your name spelling, you will have BIG Problems with your Discharge Letter. After your registration, you will be issued with your State Code Number. This will be like your PIN throughout your Service Year. After you have been given your State Code...

Rejection is expected from your PPA. Depending on your PPA, you can either be accepted or rejected. Once you are rejected, please don’t be dejected. All you need to do is take the rejection letter to the Zonal Office as the case may be and you will posted to a new PPA. Causes of rejection 1.    Your PPA feels they don’t need your expertise or course of study. For example, if you study physics/electronic and you are posted to a commercial high school where they major in commercial related courses, they will obviously not take you or you study business admin and you are posted to a technical school to teach, they will not take you. 2.    Your PPA already have enough corpers Let’s say your PPA is a growing organization now, and they have a target of just 5 corpers per batch. If you come as the 6th corper, because they have reached their maximum number, they will not be able to take you. 3.    Your employer does not think you can work with them. ...

Corpers wee oh, welcome back from 3 weeks orientation camp course which signaled the beginning of your service year. As you have learnt on camp, the NYSC service year has 4 cardinal programmes which are: I.    Orientation Camp II.    Primary Assignment III.    Community Development Service IV.    Winding out Events/Passing out You have successfully finished the orientation camp which is the first cardinal program, and I believe that in the camp you have been grounded on what to do in your places of Primary Assignment. Now that you are out of the camp, what are the steps to take? The steps are listed below: I.    Report to your Place of Primary Assignment(PPA) The first thing to do immediately after leaving orientation camp is to report at your place of primary assignment. If peradventure, your PPA is far from your orientation camp, go to the community for the night and settle down and the following morning, go ...

Recently, a friend of mine told me his young brother is going for service and it got me thinking all about orientation camp, my service year, and NYSC all over again. Seriously, I actually miss some people I met at the Orientation camp. So as I started thinking about the advice to give my friends brother, memories just flood my brain and i start remembering.  I remembered collecting my call up letter and my neighbours calling me otondo and me boarding a bus at Jibowu on thate fateful monday morning, July 4th, 2011 to Kaima orientation camp and sitting down in the bus for 8 hours before they dropped us at Kaiama camp. I remembered meeting my first NYSC friend in the vehicle as we were not the only otondos in the bus but it is just two of us posted to bayelsa state. I remembered how sellers bombarded us immediately we droped from the bus with mosquito nets, bucket, food flask, cup, bowls . . . I remembered as I got to the camp and was shocked to find a lot of ...

Hi friends, its been a while o. How are you doing? Hope you are cool. How is preparation for end of the year activities? It's been a while now that I have posted articles on my blog. Don't mind me- its because I am now "Gold" no more " Corper" .  Anyway do you have anybody that applied for CBN Venture awards for corpers while serving in NYSC? The list of winners for 2011/12 service year is out. You are hereby requested to send the Electronic soft copy of your business proposals by E-mail and the following information by text messages only to the under mentioned: Name State Code NYSC Call -Up No Bank Details Sort Code No GSM No Present Address

Its passing in just few days and certificates have started rolling out. On June 8th, 2012 I was awarded with two certificates. One was for being a member of OBS(Orientation Broadcasting service) and the second one as an Editorial Board CDS executive. It was a fun filled day. I know more are coming. OBS certificate giving to me by our Patron - Mr Kola Oredipe Editorial Board CDS certificate being handed over to me by our  CDS Patron - Mr Kola Oredipe I am looking forward to passing out on the 14th. Praise the Lord with me. Just three days to go

With all glory to God, blessings to mankind, all the projects I was able to accomplish in my service year was commissioned on the 10th of May, 2012. The projects are: Press club 2 Notice Boards for Gbarain-owei Grammar school. Tags for students in press club as a form of identity. Camera for the press club. Sign post for the Gbarain- Owei Grammar School. 2 directional banner for Gbarain youth federation hall Sign board for Gbarain Kingdom listing all the communities in Gbarain Clan. The commissioning started at Glory drive roundabout in Bayelsa state where a signboard showing the way to Gbarain kingdom was placed. The board also listed all the communities in Gbarain kingdom. Commissioning Gbarain Kindom, Bayelsa state directional signboard From there, we continued to Gbarain-Owei grammar school, where the rest of the projects was now commissioned. the first one commisioned was the press club, with the V.P Mrs Larry as the matron of the club. Items gotten for the club ...

Tomorrow 25th April, 2012 is going to be a great day for me here in Okolobiri, Bayelsa State. I have extremely busy arranging for this programme, that's why you 've not heard from me. The programme tomorrow is  seminar on “Availing ourselves of abounding opportunities and resources”.  This program is for all the youth in Gbarain kingdom. The seminar will take place at Gbarain Federation Hall, Ogboloma, Bayelsa state. So if you stay in Bayelsa state why not join me for this wonderful programme. it's going to be powerful!!! Yes I know

I never knew personal CDS projects could be this tasking. I started one of them on tuesday 13th March, 2012 and that one is  " Organising a free training on how to start internet business for Batch ‘A’ corp members at orientation camp." It has not beeen easy teaching graduates though, but God is helping me. Soonest i'll be on my way to Kaiama for today's classs. See you later.  

TUESDAY 5TH 2011 This is supposed to be the camp official opening day. Anyway since I've started my registration I had less to do.   But it was not so for people who came late or will just be coming today.

The camp is supposed to be officialy opened on July 5th, 2011, but you know for some" ITK's" like me we came on July 4th. So my nysc year and events actually starts from July 4th. I left the big city of Lagos for Delta/ Rivers state in the morning around 8:30 am. I was actually posted to Bayelsa state and the camp was located at  Kaiama Grammar School, K aiama, Kolokuma/Opokuma L.G.A. That sound tongue twisting abi, that was actually how I felt going to such place.

You are welcome to my world. This is my NYSC diary where I intend to try to capture the events of each day from orientation programme to passing out parade(POP)from NYSC. Waoh-that's a strategic plan because the service year is one (1) whole long year. For a start my plan is to record my day to day activities at the orientation camp. So keep on reading and following.