Here are 15 fun but important tips on how to survive your 3 weeks NYSC camp. We promise you, if you adhere to these tips, you’ll no doubt have an amazing stay in camp no matter how remote your area is

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1: Don’t take any remotely expensive or valuable possessions.

2: Take enough money to pay your way past suffering and stress.

3: Shamelessly suck up to every officer in sight. Call them mummy, if they are ladies. Buy them beer.

4: Lock everything up every time you blink. Take your keys with you to the bathroom.

5: Stock Flagyl, Panadol Extra, and Immodium.

6: Dettol is your best friend.

7: Have two torches, a rechargeable one and battery-powered one. You do not want to grope your way around a filthy bathroom in the dark.

8: Come with your own white shirts, shorts, and sneakers. The ones you will be issued will be dustbin-bound.

9: Also, have someone in the mami-market make a new set of khakis for you. The jacket and trousers you will receive will fall apart. (For civilians, the mami-market is the market inside the camp. There’s one in like every military barracks/base/whatever).