NYSC: Now Your Suffering Continues

It aint 10,500. its 9,500

keep the fire burning

please who knows
1.when the the first batch in 2008 will be deployed?

2. how to go about getting posted to p.h

3. is it true all corpers in p.h are teachers?
                                                             

, NYSC can bitter or sweet depending on your view of life

if you were born with silver spoon in your mouth, sooorrrrryyy ooo, you are in for a shocker

if you believe in hardwork , then its an exciting experince

mine in Benue some year back was an exicting experince

, let the spirit continue

, YOUTHS OBEY THE CLARION CALL!!

I wrote an article on the NYSC, titled '' ON THE NYSC SCHEME: OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT YAR'ADUA  sometime last year. It was published in a Nigerian Daily. I was happy to read posts on a similar topic here. I don't believe the NYSC should be scrapped, as I feel it is a veritable scheme that can aid the rapid industrialization of Nigeria. What needs to be done is that a National Commission For Youth Development should be created and the NYSC should be put under it.

I also found out on this site that corpers are now being paid 10,500 Naira. Though I advocated for 12,500 Naira to be paid in the piece, the new allowance is a step in the right direction. I still believe a group of deep thinkers headed by good entrepreneurs should be assembled by the Federal Government to proffer a way forward for the NYSC Scheme. A situation where Corpers are posted to beat drums and become Choir Masters for Churches or posted to sell phones at GSM Shops [like it happened in Akure] should not be allowed to repeat itself.

Corpers should be deployed to places where they can creatively make an impact on the Nigerian economy. Places like schools, private construction firms [Where they will be taught the basics of road construction, engineering, architecture, building construction and maintenance], Farm Plantations, Research Institutes, Technical Colleges and other Higher Institutions etc should be in the mind of NYSC officials when Corpers are about to be posted. The era of Slave camp operators should be brought to an end. And talking about slave camps, I mean those private businesses [including some schools] that request for Corpers as soon as the Three weeks orientation camp is concluded. I had a first hand experience of this phenomenon, but I would talk about what my colleague faced during his service year. He was posted to a Private secondary school in Akure where he was told to take Chemistry, Mathematics, Fine Art [ My friend had an artistic talent] and English. My Ijaw Friend worked assidiously but he was largely unpaid for his efforts. Yet the owner of the school was building a house somewhere in town. So much for the NYSC Scheme.