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.

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...

Dear otondo, don't be offended o cos that's the name you are going to be be identified with in the next few months. This blog article is targeted more at corps members posted to Bayelsa state. If you are posted to Bayelsa state, you are welcome to the glory of all lands - Bayelsa state. Don't expect too much as the new orientation camp is not yet ready, so your orientation camp is located on East-West road, precisely at Kaiama, in Bayelsa State. If you are coming from any side from the West or East, that pass through Warri or Ugheli, you will drop just before your bus climbs the 2nd long bridge, so please be watchful and wake up as soon as you climb the first bridge which is Patani, Delta state. So please bring along the following special items, 1. A plain white sweater or cardigan - even though it is dry season in other parts of the country, it is still raining here in Bayelsa state, So be prepared. 2. A rubber white canvas - this will complement the canvass ...

Prospective corps members, the 2013 NYSC Mobilization Time Table For 2013 Batch C is out. Read it below: S/NO Event Date 1 Pre-Mobilisation Workshop 20th August, 2013  2 Registration of Foreign-trained Nigerian Graduates 12th August - 11th October, 2013  3 Submission of Masterlist. Screening/Vetting by Mobilization Officers. ...

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 ...

This is to inform all 2013 Batch B corps members that their call up letters are out in their various schools. If you're among "The 2013 Batch ‘B‘ Prospective Corps Members" you are hereby advised to check your posting and collect your call-up letters from Thursday 20th June. Foreign trained Nigerian graduates are to collect their own from the NYSC secretariats of their states of domicile as indicated during registration. Those Deployed to Adamawa, Borno and Yobe are to report to Bauchi, Benue and Nasarawa orientation camps respectively on the date indicated on their Call-up letters. Report to camps on time pls as NO late registration will be entertained. NYSC wishes you a hitch-free service year. Don't know what to take to camp? Get it here Also get camp NYSC orientation camp addresses in Nigeria here Share on your walls to spread the information. Thanks

Dear prospective corps member, as you are going for service, you need to take the following as you will need them for your camp activities: A pair of white of sneakers A waist bag Two T-Shirts Two pairs of shorts Mosquito Nets   A bucket for bathing Towel Soap and Soap dish Food and beverage flask     Jacket for those posted in cold regions   Cash for expenses Torch light Spoon ( NO FORK or KNIFE pls)   Some of these items would be provided at the camps by NYSC, yet its wise to have your personal belongings as against inconveniences. Feel free to add more things to these as far as your convenience demands. Its good when you have these things already, so that your cash will last on camp.  I will upload the pictures of these mentioned items and more. I wish you a wonderful and hitch free service year. 

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 ...