*NYSC Allowance And The Minimum Wage Stunt by: Busy Brain*

Youths obey the clarion call; let us lift our nation high, under the sun or in the rain. The above sentence is carved out of the NYSC anthem and this particular anthem is like a ginger in Corpers' swagger on parade ground while in the orientation camp. As newly mobilised 'Otondos' the rhythm is sonorous and pleasant to the ears with merriness and ecstasy.

As a matter of fact, serving one's father land is cool most especially when one is fully kitted in seven over seven or six over seven attire. Everybody sees one as government's pikin that is on payroll. one's parents are more happier having seen their son or daughter in NYSC khaki even when all the bonuses and allowances from them would be blocked for that period of one year. Why? because you are now a Corper receiving allawee. One can neither call parents nor brothers for financial purposes unless one promises to return the money whenever allawee drops. Only few with parental influence flex with their parents' money and leave allawee untouched for other purpose or few ones that have already been employed or have flourishing business and only want NYSC certification for future reference. Some of these categories are rather ghost Corpers who sacrifice their monthly allowance to the Local Government Inspectors and school principals.

As interesting as the NYSC, the Federal Government seems not to have known that going out of one's comfort zone to live on #19,800 is not easy. Most of the Corpers exhaust their money before 20th of the month and continue to count down the days left to earn new allowance. Can you imagine a living inside life.

A brother of mine earned #19,800 when he served in the year 2013. During that time, a Congo of rice was #300 while that of beans was #120. Can you imagine how cheap other cooking stuffs would be by then? As cheap as foodstuffs, he always complain of insufficient balance...
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