udeze:

if you feel you can easily get a Job abroad or that you want to work abroad and don't want to work in Nigeria at all, then you can go ahead and forget about the NYSC, other than that, NYSC is essential unless you are planning of going into private sector

Cosmass:

Thanks guys for the contributions though it's still a little difficult for me to decide and by the way what is the camp life like? Is it true, during camp, showers are taken outside?

Meddler:

Yep and every other bodily function hehe.

Dis Guy:

One more question to add to axeman's

Did you get the call up later delivered to you or you have to go back to Abuja to pick it up?

Dis Guy:

LMAO was only wishing; I mean its 2010 after all,

I have always wondered why simple things are made difficult, going to Abuja to register then going back to collect just a letter is an absolute waste especially for people living far away in say Sokoto or Calabar

everything could be done online, including sending us the shirt and boot

Dis Guy:



They should decentralise the thing, each 'geopolitical' zone should have an NYSC office- i wonder why no one has come up with this, why should it happen in one place and they cant even post the letters back abi what's NIPOST for?


I saw the Ogun NYSC camp on TV recently newly built looks a bit decent

Hotstepper:

@Meddler, I guess we are in the same batch, Batch C that just finished camp on the 12th of Novermber, Menh, I made up my mind to have fun in camp and I did. The organizational aspect at my own camp was good but the surrounding was just the same as your own. No washrooms etc that I dont even think for the 3 weeks I stayed dere that I pooed up to 5 times

It was great that I met alot of people with different characters and mehn, the military commandants killed me with laughter. Unless most foreign students that picked Abj nd Lagos, I picked somewhere in the south-south and I think I was the only foreign student in my camp. Overall, I had mad fun nd will go back if they asked me to,

Being abroad gives you an easy excuse to maneouvre.
I was just thinking that if completing your masters program puts your age beyond the maximum allowable age, you can always request an exemption from NYSC.

Hence, your profile might look like this: foreign bachelor's degree + foreign master's degree + (possibly foreign work experience) + NYSC exempt certificate = High employability in Nigeria !! Wink

netotse:

as long as you were under 30 after your undergraduate you'll have to do NYSC.

I'm not a foreign trained grad but i'll add my 2 cents.

I chose where i wanted to carry out my NYSC(right down to the place i was posted) and for me what determined that choice was my career path, i have my NYSC as part of my work experience, i'm not the patient type so i knew i wasn't going to teach anybody's child. . .lol

I had fun, i was in the north and despite the fact that i live in abj, it still took some getting used to, yes there were times i felt like all northerners should be gathered in a room and shot, but in the end, i came out with a better understanding of the average northerner than i had before.

The average nigerian is ignorant but will never admit it(heck he's ignorant of his ignorance, a double whammy right?) ,most nigerians have never lived outside the states where they grew up and so are steeped in stereotypes. NYSC is a chance to learn something different, i grew up in lagos and only moved to abuja in the not too distant past so my perception of northerners was restricted to the talk i heard around me, (even abj isn't exactly a northern town as areas have their caucauses) spending time in Niger state changed the way i think about them in general, yep i had a lot of bad experiences but i came out better for it all.

Would i advise anyone to do NYSC? definitely, but you need to know exactly why you're going in, most of the retards that come telling you horror stories had unreal expectations going in and most of the people that come back telling you how horrible other tribes are probably forgot that they were strangers in another man's land and needed to respect their hosts. It's not rocket science, it's human nature(far more complex )

Dis Guy:

Are you saying EVERY graduate have the opportunity to choose exactly where they serve right down to the place they are posted BECAUSE i dont know how possible it is to avoid horror stories when people have very little options on where they serve and in what capacity- I think most people understand they're going in to serve the country and conditions wont be the best but at least they'll have better experiences if their abilities are put to better use in an okay environment

_{stand to be corrected though, on choosing a place to serve}

netotse:

I'm not a foreign trained grad but i'll add my 2 cents.

I chose where i wanted to carry out my NYSC(right down to the place i was posted) and for me what determined that choice was my career path, i have my NYSC as part of my work experience, i'm not the patient type so i knew i wasn't going to teach anybody's child. . .lol

Rare:

This is the persistent Naija issue. NYSC rules are there. Those who can't tweak it, face the music. Those who can, sing a different song.

Rare:

This is the persistent Naija issue. NYSC rules are there. Those who can't tweak it, face the music. Those who can, sing a different song.

netotse:

omo, no matter the kind of music you name i danced to it o. . .not er'one that influences his/her posting does so because of comfort. . .go figure!

Dis Guy:

But atleast you are better prepared physiologically than someone that gets flung anywhere to do anything

kind of agree, a friend got sent to calabar, served in a bank another friend got flung elsewhere, to serve with a local government council with no office per se just an abandoned building with no electricity so had to sit outside trying to learn the language with the help of almajiri students for months until he tweaked it and moved out

Rare:

I am not perturbed by your reason to influence your posting. I am disturbed that some can influence and hence enjoy the scheme because of their advantage, while others who actually experience the scheme for what it is, might feel otherwise. But like I said earlier, this is just a minor indication of a bigger national issue.

As far as NYSC postings are not a level playing ground (at least to a good degree), we shall keep on seeing threads like "Is it Wise to Come Back To Do NYSC"

netotse:

i dont understand how you managed to arrive at this conclusion, so if er'one(including 'returnees') was given random postings, we wouldn't have threads such as this ehn?. . .that sort of reasoning is manifestly flawed(and that's putting it lightly.)

netotse:

name a system that cant be gamed. . .as long as you can use a system to your advantage(without breaking the law) i dont see why you shouldn't.