5. When your friend that didn’t pay gets posted to Lagos.
God, why?
6. How your friends that got posted to Lagos or Abuja look at you.
Can you just get out?
7. When you and bae get posted to different states.
Hay! Relationship over!
8. When someone tries to see the silver lining and tells you to manage it like that.
Enemy of progress.
9. How you search for people posted to the same state you were posted to.
Where are you people oh?
10. When you’re thinking of skipping NYSC and just going back home.
I’m not doing again.
11. When you start making plans to redeploy before even going to camp.
Lagos by fire by force!
12. When you start planning to make excuses or fake illnesses when you get to camp.
My doctor said camp is bad for my health abeg.
13. How you calculate the money you’ll spend on what you have to wear in camp.
Hay God!
14. You, when you hear stories of how horrible camp food is.
God forbid bad thing!
15. When you have to travel by air, another two hour bus drive then 50 minute bike ride to camp.
Kuku ask me to travel 7 oceans and seas.
16. How you shed tears on the journey to camp.
I want my mummy.
17. When you see people actually excited to go to camp.
See these oversabi people.
It’s only normal to be totally lit after completing NYSC service year. On April 14th, the batch A corp members officially completed their service year and passed out from the NYSC program. Here are 15 corpers who were too happy to be done with the Khaki and 19k allowance life.
As much as some young Nigerians detest the idea of doing the mandatory one year youth service, a lot of those that have done theirs will testify that it was fun — especially the Orientation Camp experience.
Corps members are finding various ways to do good and give back to society at their various places of primary assignment (PPA), just like this young lady, Don Draper, who shared her story.
She is currently serving Ohiya autonomous community in Abia state.
She was deployed to work as a secondary school teacher in the locale.
Initially, she didn’t want to serve at her PPA because of the deplorable condition of the school.
She was previously wary to serve in Abia because of the stories she heard about the state, she enjoyed the camp experience, but didn’t like the school.
She quickly settled into the school life after a few months and fell in love with the students.
She then devised a way to help her students excel at their studies and came up with the “Base Word Spelling Challenge “.
After the students prepared intensely for the challenge, the competition took place.
And it was fierce.
There were prizes.
They included: a one term scholarship, school bags, books and pens.
Two winners emerged from JS3 and SS3.
Senior secondary student, Uzoma, collects his prize.
Junior secondary student, Chinemerem, receiving his prize.
She’s certainly setting a good example and helping the future generation.
The challenge is now spreading to the rest of the state. Another secondary school will be hosting an edition for students. Her target is to organise the challenge in seven different schools across the state before her passing out parade (POP).
Registration for NYSC 2016 Batch A is now open! If you are planning on joining this batch, then you’ll need to register within the next couple weeks (by February 28th to be exact).
The whole thing can be overwhelming. We’ve been there, done that, and got the t-shirts. Literally. You know these NYSC t-shirts?
Anyhow, you’re here because we are going to show you how to register as painlessly as possible. Okay, we can’t promise it will entirely be without pain. But this should make things a lot easier. Here’s our our guide to the NYSC registration process.
0. Super Mega Important Public Service Announcement
Before we start, let’s talk. If you are hoping to get posted to particular states such as Lagos or Abuja, know one thing –
No one gets posted to Lagos or Abuja by accident
If you don’t know you are going to Lagos before the postings even come out, then you’re not serving in Lagos. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, ask one of your older siblings or aunties/uncles who live in Nigeria.
With that out of the way, let’s get on with it.
1. Get your documents ready
These are the things you will need to have handy and get ready before you start registration.
International Passport — data page
International Passport — page showing date of first departure from Nigeria
International Passport — page showing date of return to NigeriaVisa for stay abroad
High School Diploma / IGCSE Certificate
First University Degree Diploma
First University Degree TranscriptPassport-sized photographMeasurements for your clothes (Small, Medium, Large, XLarge)
Scan of your signature
You will also need a valid Nigerian mobile telephone number
2. Create your NYSC account
First, you’ll need to visit the NYSC’s main site.
Warning. There are many NYSC websites, and obviously lots of them are fake. Double check to ensure that you are on the right one. The right URL in your browser should be nysc.org.ng.
Now you are there, look towards the lower right quadrant of your page. Under “quick links”, there is a link to “prospective corps member online registration”.
To create an account, click “Apply for Relocation” under “Registration for Mobilization Batch A, 2016”. Under Registration Options popup, click, “Fresh Registration”. You will be redirected to a page to create your account.
If you want to be able to receive information via SMS and print your call-up letter when it is ready, you will need to make a payment online of N3,000. Although not exactly necessary, we highly recommend it because otherwise, you will have to get your call up letter at camp, and that is one more potential complication you don’t really need.
You will need a Nigerian bank account with online banking to do this.
4. Biometrics
Once you have made your payment, the first thing you will be prompted to do is to upload your biometric data. That page looks like this.
You don’t have to do it right away though. You can skip it till you have completed the main application. It will pop again during application review. Don’t worry, we’ll show you how when you get there.
5. Online Application
The online application process is completed in 5 steps.
Step 1 — Your general/personal information
Step 2 — Your education historyStep 3 — Your documents uploadStep 4— Application review
Here you review your application as well as select the top 3 states you wish to be deployed to. The options you can choose change depending on the choices you make. You cannot pick all three states within the same region. So, for example, if you pick Lagos as your first state, you will not be able to pick any other South-West states. So choose carefully!
Step 5 — Biometrics
The thumbprint registration process requires special hardware, so we advise that you go to a cyber cafe. A cyber cafe in Nigeria.
Here are some cyber cafes you can go to. We’ll continue to update this list with places and cities as we find them –
Lagos
Shop 68B, Falomo Roundabout, Ikoyi (Google Maps)
Thugoth Cafe, 5 Onikoyi street, Aguda, Surulere (07087741199 / Google Maps)
Okikola and Company Cybercafe, 5 Adenuga Street, Babs Animashaun Road, Surulere (09092413778 / Google Maps)
Want to do the biometric upload yourself/from abroad?
If for some reason, you are still stuck abroad and are afraid that time is running short, in theory, you could accomplish this part by yourself. It could be tricky if you aren’t very good around computers. But all you really need to make this work is an $86 fingerprint scanner. As far as we know, the only kind that will work is this type. See this Nairaland thread for instructions. Good luck!
6. After Registration
Important: Once you have submitted your application, you will not be able to edit any information in the application. However, you can still upload/change the documents.
You will receive a text saying that your registration was completed.
If there are any problems with the application or documents, you will receive a text message about that. Once everything is accepted, you will receive your call-up number within a couple of days.
If you have any questions or need more help, send your tweets to @ijgbnetwork. Good luck, and…
We often start our NYSC year wishing that it would end right from the beginning. But all who have served will agree that the highlight of the service year is always the Orientation Camp. Oyin Oludipe who is a graduate of Babcock University shared his Camp experience in pictures on Facebook.
Oyin, who is a Batch B 2015 corp member serving in Ogun state, captured in 21 pictures some of the occurrences that makes it memorable. What makes his unique are the tags on his pictures. They are so beautiful it’ll make you wonder if it’s the same NYSC you did, and if you haven’t served already, it’ll make you want to serve your country!
Zikoko fam! As NYSC orientation camp started yesterday, it’s time to share your (not-so) fond memories from your NYSC year 😀 . What are your best (or worst) memories from NYSC?
