NYSC Is A Waste Of Time?

@kemji,
never mind the ones that are scaring you,if you go to serve with the mind of being productive,you will surely enjoy your service year. 

I am currently serving. I will be done in August (cannot wait!). I would advise people to partake in the programme and not just shun it. Some organizations require an NYSC certificate before employment. CBN (where I serve) require a cert. before employment. You don't want to nail a dream job and not be employed simply because of lack of NYSC certificate.

The NYSC conditions are terrible, pay even worse and the organization itself is the epitome of inefficiency. The registration process (especially for foreign students) is,  infact, serious patience is needed. But at the end of the day, it's just one year.

@viee
where did u serve?

It is stress right from the orientation ground. On the job, it's is doing a million job for units of kobo. Yet, it is not waste of time. It is a place where graduates are brewed to be strong especially all these buttered bread.

i think its like an intern doctor thang ,  it used to be good in the past so says my dad but not anymore

I reason with adeyballer. But, on a more serious note, this thing even as it is, is still needed by some people. Have you ever wondered why someone would want to serve again irrespective of the merciless drilling and the low payment. Unemployment is so high that those kind of people use it to secure employment again and manage the change for another person's TFC meals.

a bloody waste of time. Instead of earning millions one would be earning peanuts. Employees will use you till you drop because they'l bleed you like a staff and pay you like a corper.Then besides the officials are so rude, to register trips, to sign cd cards trips, to collect certificate trips. The whole NYSC  is a bloody waste of time. But thank God that the officials are greedy sha

Hi all,
I believe the NYSC is really a waste of Nigerian youths valuable time,depending on the way you view it.I serve up North,where i didnt do anything relating to my course and being paid a lousy stipend called allawee.This created a big gap in my cv not mentioning the sad years of ASUU strike.I believe the NYSC should end with the 3 wks orientation camp.

NYSC hmmm,  a precious 1year waste of your life. 

NYSC remains one of the best schemes we've ever embarked upon, it has and it is still achieving its aims, at least I've met

people and learnt so many stuffs/culture.

The only pain is the welfare of NYSC.  for example here in ABJ they see corpers as some low life people (inferiority complex

anyway),  I guess they are scared of the fact that this guys in orange booths and green  Khaki  will soon be ahead.

if u aint enjoying  your service or u dint enjoy your service year then kpele o!!

I'm enjoyin my own full bar although I can't wait for sept sha.

Long and short just make up your mind to learn during your service year.

it can never been termed a waste of time,,at least for the sake of the discipline inculcated into the heads and minds of fresh graduates in this country, i appreciate the schemes existence despite all odds and irregularities, which are part of its existence. 

Anyway it depends on individual and where u served, I enjoyed my yourth service.

And i think we will enjoy it better if the fed govt should take the program as it supposed to be.

THE BARON, I AGREE WITH YOU 100%.

I 'm going to get a lot of criticism for what I am about to say but it is the truth - NYSC is usually a route out for people with very little hope. Please note that I HAVE NOT SAID that only people without little hope enjoy NYSC. For many, the 8,5k 'allowi' is their first time they have earned money, and puts them in a better position that they would have ever been. From this one year of manual labour, they may go on to be retained by the companies they have served duly. In that respect NYSC serves it purpose.

HOWEVER, for some people like me who left the UK to take up a respectable job in Nigeria, NYSC has only proved a thorn in my career. I have had to accept a N3m drop in pay, simply because I am not 'full staff', yet for every other purpose but pay I am staff. I haven't mentioned the 3M just to throw figures around, but to show you detrimental NYSC has been to my career. I came to Nigeria to work, not to relive my Benin city secondary school days as was evidenced in camp. Thank God I did not stay in camp - in fact, my employers pleaded that if I can 'escape' camp I should, because there was so much work to be done.

My point is that NYSC should be voluntary. Some people need it, some don't. I have had my fair share of life's challenges, and I don't need a whole year of being treated like a goat to tell me that life can be hard. Each to their own. Like 'the baron' said, is it if I have a business proposal that I wish to see through, then I will waste my time doing NYSC?

Govt please stop making it difficult for people wishing to relocate to do so in the name of this sham of a program called NYSC. Yes the intentions are good, but the 'spirit' of the program no longer holds true so please scrap it.

NYSC, it is  a big waste of time. The government is using this as a cover up not to encourage private sector employment, or providing employment to fresh gradates themselves.  More so, it is cheap labour for the government(teaching) and private sector (Messengers). It is either the program is modified to be 2007 compliant or it is scrapped. And don't hold youths and a year of there life to ramson.

For those who love this cover up (NYSC), it is better you face life as soon a you graduate and not wait for a year before you know what hit you. What is N8500, although better than N7500 in my days.

yes i really think that NYSC is a waste of time , if u look closely u find out that both male and female posted for service exibit this service to ease ther  sexually appatite and also some have use this  corp service as a menence to the society by attaching traveler on the high way. i believe we are all aware of this 

NYSC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hmmm, bloody waste of time but very imp because come organisation would demand for it at entry level, so please don't shun just do it 4 d sake of it, i served in GOMBE and almost died, came back wit typhoid n malaria, infact that tin they call endurance treak, could not make it because i had food poisioning, infact Gombe was not it at all but that three was worth it after worth its a bloody waste of time,