₦airaland Forum

Zikkie: Good morning peeps! As d days are drawing closer, let's also remember to pray for God's unlimited favour n protection! HIS word says we shld commit our ways unto his hands n HE shall direct our paths! This shld b d most vital aspect of our preparations! No evil shall know our dwellings IJN

Amen!!

Top of the morning peeps...the blessings of this day shall never elude us!

See dem! Seee deem!!! Dey wanna beef me now gonna c NEBOSH, HSE and NYSC on my CV!!!

Holy cow!! Missed page 1000

The little opportunities given to women has ridiculed the egalitarian quality of this country.

I need to limpopo ds gals before camp abeg....ehm chia too many on my list!

Can you feel orientation camp already? Fellas!

To all prospective otondos travelling to any market of their choice today, wishing you a safe trip and profound shopping.

Requirements:

1. CALL UP LETTER: This is a vital part of camp and the only evidence that you are a prospective corps member (colloq. Corper, or Otondo) and you are not impersonating anyone. This will be taken from and not returned to you. So if at all you even forget you luggage (lol) never forget this.

Tip: DO NOT LAMINATE IT! And keep it like its your life. I know someone who was sent back because she forgot hers. Also someone who had to beg and beg before his letter was collected because he laminated his own copy. So please avoid all these stress and make enough copies of this letter.

2. Registration Documents: Foreign graduates should take along important registration documents used in registering at Abuja. —> The List here

3. Final Year Student ID CARD

4. Notification/Statement of Result from School

5. PASSPORT PHOTOGRAPHS: This is very important. Take as many as you can, about 20. You would need them at every registration point mostly. Then those of you who would likely redeploy, you would need more than other.

6. PHOTOCOPIES OF YOUR DOCUMENTS: Now make about 5-10 copies of every document required. There would be photocopiers in camp at mammy market but trust me, it is double the price and it saves time.

Tip: The forms that will be handed to you are very easy to fill. Attach your passport where necessary and fill them correctly. After your registration, you will be issued with your State Code Number. This will be like your PIN throughout your Service Year.

PART 2:

7.  CERTIFICATES/LICENSES: For Doctors, Pharmacists, Nurses & Lab Scientists, take along your proof of certification.

8. STATIONERY, PEN, PAPER , GLUE, TIPPEX. Yeah this saves time and lots of unnecessary begging.

Tip: Some camps do seize staplers at the gate during check-in. So do not forget to include pins in your stapler if you are taking that along.

Tip: After getting your NYSC State Code Number, you can proceed to claim your NYSC Kit and Mattress after which you can proceed to get a Room. After you have gotten your kit and secured a place in the hostels, you can settle down and you are good to go to start the Military parades.

Now, Your NYSC kit should contain 1 NYSC Crested Vest, A pair of Khaki Trousers, Cap and Jacket, 2 White T-shirts, 2 Pairs of Knickers, 2 pairs of Stockings, A Pair of Orange Jungle Boots and One Pair of White Converse. A “Belt” is also included.

DAILY NEEDS:

9. ROUND-NECKED WHITE T-SHIRTS: This is an essential outfit in camp in fact in most camps this is the only allowed cloth to be worn throughout your 3 weeks. Even to church, you might not be allowed to wear colored cloths. You would be given 2 pairs of white t-shirts at camp to just fulfill all righteousness which surely would never be your size especially our very slim and small otondo in size . So you can bring extra pairs (6). Why? Because you probably wont have time to wash during the week after being stressed out from the parades and Man-O-War drills.

Tip: Do not carry more than 2 pairs of colored clothes because you wont need it.

10. WHITE SHORTS: I beg you please do bring yours. you would also be given 2 pairs of shorts which are really poor in material. They tear easily and it can be annoying. So my dear Otondos bring like 4 pairs of shorts. Trust me also you wont like to wash everyday, so bring enough to last you like 3 days so that you wont be stranded.

11. PLAIN WHITE SNEAKERS/TENNIS SHOES: This is a very important outfit. you would also be given an ugly pair of low quality white tennis shoes customized for NYSC. It’s either you are not given your size although you can find someone with your size and swap. But after the first wash it starts tearing. So just buy yours (white). They also sell this in camp, so in case you are not able to get you could buy in camp just carry extra cash for that because the price would be higher – as with everything in Mammy – because they know you have no choice than to buy.

12. WHITE SOCKS: Just get extra pairs.

13. MOSQUITO TREATED NET: You would do not want to fall sick in camp from malaria. Just bring yours. Also bring ropes you would use to tie it. i also used mine as a room to protect my box and properties from thieves and also from some insects and ants.

14. BASIC DRUGS: Like Panadol or paracetamol, medicine for your allergies, menstrual pain relief drug, nausea relief drugs, antibiotics e.t.c. The camp clinic is usually inadequately stocked with drugs so help yourself.

True story – A corper from the previous batch donated at least a million Naira worth of medicine to our (Lagos) camp clinic, and barely a few days later, they claimed to have run out of medicine.

15. PADLOCKS: [BRING or BUY from Mammy] Please lock your boxes and bags to avoid regrets and tears. I know someone who lost more than 5 items including his two phones – like he’s the only one in camp.

16. WAIST POUCH: /Fanny pack/Bum bag (or for the more fashion-conscious, a cross-body purse). The bum bags are more popular because they won’t bang against you when you’re active and your hands are free to do whatever. You need it to carry your money, phone, small valuables, pens, etc around with you at all times. You should sleep with it too.

17. BEVERAGE: The camp will supply u with “Tea-water” so u can make tea when u need to!

18. DETTOL : This is very, very essential. firstly the bathrooms can be very annoying and dirty and you would not like to have infection from camp. Bad idea. Also the water can be dirty. Most people always have reaction to it.

19. DETERGENT: [BUY from Mammy.] Again, this reduces the amount of load you’re bringing into camp. However, if you’re lucky the mammy market will have vendors offering laundry services! It costs N50 per item, N100 for your khaki trousers or shirt, extra N50 if you want your items ironed

Tip: The Bucket: Buy this in Mammy. Don’t stress yourself taking one to Camp, which you’re probably going to leave behind after 3 weeks.

Toiletries: Toilet Paper, Sanitary Pad, soap dish etc. BUY in Mammy.

20. TOWEL

21. A PAIR OF SLIPPERS: [BRING or BUY]

22. Bed sheets, Pillow Cases and A Pillow. You could also get pillow from mammy market to reduce load.

Tip: Mattresses will be provided by NYSC. It is best to “double up” with the mattresses, as they are about 1 to 2 inches thick.

23. HANDKERCHIEF. There will be BUCKETS of sweating. Do yourself a favor.

24. FLASHLIGHT OR RECHARGEABLE LAMPS: [BRING or BUY] Most or in fact all camps do not give light except at a specific time of the day. It’s very essential. especially at night when you need to use the bathroom, early in the morning when preparing for morning drills and meditations. At night in case you need to do anything. At mammy, there is always light till they close . You can charge them there at a little fee.

Tip: You will be fed three times a day in camp but I must not lie to you, the food there is nothing to write home about. They can be nice on few occasions but most days, they are poor. If you are someone who loves to eat good food, make provisions for your own food. You should get some fast foods along, some breakfast cereals and beverages. You should also hold extra cash to eat at the Mammy market. You will get good foods there.

25. PLATE, BOWL AND CUP: [BRING or BUY] For eating. Important for those who intend on eating Camp food.

26. Some form of entertainment: Novels – for those who get bored easily, please carry some. And for guys PSP or chess. also iPod your and MP3 players for audiophiles.

27. Your Ray-Ban sunglasses for the sun. And if you can’t afford that, get a Ray-Bon. LoL

28. Get extra phone batter(ies) and extra Network SIMs. Some network are not available at some camp as some are location far from towns. Once you get your call-up letter, you can find out (from serving corpers or tweet at me @_NYSC) which network has the best reception at your destination camp. If you need data access, find out if that available also. Instagramers and keekers, if you get EDGE thank your stars.

29. CASH: extremely important. you would need between N15,000 – N30,000 for the extravagant spenders and for those that can manage say N10,000 – N15,000. There are lots of things that take up money. Things like food (for those who don’t intend eating camp food), recharge cards, charging of phones, pleasures e.t.c

Tip: You wont be allowed to leave camp. So do not be stranded, trust me it’s not a good idea. Just budget 1000 per day. You could take your ATM card along, incase. (This might sound counter-intuitive since there aint any ATM in camp and you are not allowed to leave camp. But figure it out…)

If you have a camera you can take it along because you will want to snap a lot of scenes. If you have a Smartphone with great camera, that’s good for you because you can easily take and share photos on social networks.

Tip: If you don’t have any of those, you will have to pay some guys on camp who do that as business to follow you around and snap you wherever you go. They might charge up to N2,000 for the duration of the camping. They should give you all your photos and videos in CDs at the end of Camping. Or you could wait till close of camp and snap at a cheaper rate.

This post has been culled from 2 blogs. I’ve also included some tips.

SmashingM: I prefer these music of yesteryears to the noise of nowadays. People call me old school but i don't mind

rather be an old school than go deaf with these unsonorous harps called new school music! #gbam#

[quote author=j-slimz]Good morning all. TGIF[/quote]morning too! As e dey hot!!!

madone: yo we re here
Wadup bro

feeling @ home broo, tot I was left out!

Goodmorning fellas. #team akwa ibom# hail u yall. AK all d way!

Were #team akwa ibom# @

bcomputer101: •How will you feel if somebody pray this prayer that your father will not return from village?

•secondly, WOE UNTO YOUR ENGLISH TEACHER.

[color=#990000][quote author=bcomputer101]He woefully failed to learn. Blame it on him not his teacher.

Safe trip Broo..don't forgt to go with the problems of this country mopping @ your face!!!

[/s][s]This girl be like "sweethrt I wudnt chat with you tonight" asked her if tecno has finally bought BBM through her!!! Guys are always smart not dem gurls !

=memud6]By WILFRED JIBRIL
There is so much fuss about the capability of the newly registered All Progressives Congress (APC) to sort out the mess into which the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has plunged the country since her return to democratic rule in 1999. The promoters of the party say APC is the panacea for the nation’s protracted and seemingly intractable political quagmire. They are telling us that the party has got the magic wand to take us to the much desired socio-economic and political Promised Land. What gives them the impression that they have the capacity to tackle the myriad of woes staring us in the face? What is unique about APC? Is it any different from PDP? For me, APC is old wine in a new bottle.
Considering the antecedents of the three parties that fused into the so-called mega party, I have no scintilla of doubt in my mind that APC will go down in history as the worst political party to have emerged on the nation’s political landscape. The reason is not far-fetched. The party does not have the interest of the people of this great nation at heart. The reason for its emergence speaks volumes about its mission and vision. It wants to wrest power from PDP at the centre. That is all the party is after. The question is, how does their wresting power from the ruling party better the lot of the downtrodden in the country? Nigerians are very gullible; before you say Jack Robinson, they will give in to the antics of APC and start campaigning for them because the party parades people with sugar-coated tongues. I wonder what magic APC will perform if voted into power in 2015.
For instance, in the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, apart from Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State who has taken what I call real development to all the nooks and crannies of the state, most of his colleagues are only performing on the pages of newspapers. Everywhere you go in Edo State, you notice the presence of his government. Little wonder then that for the first time in the history of the state, a sitting governor won election in all the local government areas in the state. He even crushed his opponent in his ward and retired all the political godfathers in the state as he vowed on his assumption of office in 2008. The governor has wormed his way into the hearts of the people so much so that a commercial bus driver in Benin City reportedly disgorged a passenger from his bus for using a derogatory language on the comrade governor.
But in Lagos State, the reverse is the case. They tell us Governor Fashola is working but he is not doing anything spectacular. He is only concentrating development in areas that are already developed at the expense of the suburbs which have been neglected from time immemorial. Highbrow places like Lekki, Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Lagos Island and others keep getting his attention while suburbs like Ikotun, Ijegun, Ijagemo, Isheri-Osun, etc, remain neglected. A governor, who performs, is one who connects with the downtrodden. For instance, Ikotun road has been in this sorry state before the 1999 election which threw up his godfather, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as governor.
All Tinubu did throughout his eight years in office was to patch the road. Now the road is in a terrible state and nobody is doing anything about it. For the users of the road, passing through Iyana-Ejigbo is hellish. But the wonder governor of Lagos State does not see anything wrong concentrating development in highbrow areas at the expense of the hewers of wood and drawers of water who queue up under scorching sun to vote for his party at elections. You now spend about two or more hours doing a trip of about 15 minutes.
Methinks a performing governor is the one who makes judicious use of the resources at his disposal to develop every part of the state. The residents pay through the nose to transport themselves to and from work daily. The excuse has always been that the problems of Lagos are too daunting to be surmounted by one government. This is a glib excuse. It does not hold water.
Former Governor Lateef Kayode Jakande of the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) only spent four years and three months in office, yet his legacies are still visible everywhere in Lagos. Alhaji Jakande was selflessly committed to developing the state; no wonder he left the seat of power a poor man. He is a true Awoist. The agenda of these latter-day Awoists is diametrically antithetical to that of the UPN governors then. Their own agenda was that of total transformation. Ask the people of the old Bendel, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo and Lagos states about the performances of these former governors and they will tell you they performed excellently.
Even former Governor Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo of the old Kwara State, who spent only three months in office consequent upon the 1983 coup, performed brilliantly. Were it not for the military intervention of December 31, 1983, Jakande would have catapulted Lagos to the apogee of infrastructural development. Regrettably, these legacies are left to rot away. They are not being maintained. A case in point is the deplorable state of the housing estates built by the former governor across the state.
Aping the dressing style of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo does not make one an Awoist. By nature, Awoists are selfless performers.
There is something unique about Governor Oshiomhole. He does not discriminate against any person or community irrespective of political affiliation in his development drive. For instance, when I travelled to Benin City before the governorship election last year, the driver of the bus I boarded from Lagos, showed me the road to the residence of the two-time governor of the defunct Bendel State and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia, which he macadamized. A co-tenant, who travelled to Benin City recently, told me he missed his bus stop because he was held spellbound by the unprecedented development the governor has brought to the city. This is the only ACN governor who has etched his name in gold in the area of development. Some of us are not surprised by the massive infrastructural development going on in Edo State. As President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Oshiomhole became the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the oppressed. He became a thorn in the flesh of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He gave a good account of himself.
In Lagos, people keep paying taxes without anything to show for it. Nothing is working in Lagos, yet they keep telling us,Eko O ni Baje. To borrow the words of my former editor and a columnist, Ebere Wabara,Eko ti baje tan.
You cannot develop a state by sloganeering. Why must a governor take delight in frittering away tax payers’ money in the name of beautification? Infrastructure are collapsing and some people are being awarded contracts worth millions of naira to plant flowers in some parts of the state. Yes, there is nothing wrong with beautification; I believe road construction across the state should be the topmost priority of the government.
It must be noted that the problem we have as a nation is not the system, but the operators. And since it is still the same set of people who have disappointed the electorate at various levels and times that are the brains behind APC, I don’t see the party taking the country out of the woods. It will only give Nigeria migraine instead of curing her headache.
Wilfred Jibril(wilfredjibril@ yahoo.com;08037831431[/quote]I have no scintilla of doubt in my mind
that APC will go down in history as the worst
political party to have emerged on the
nation’s political landscape.

Pointless.....no hard feelings.

Walk straight to her and pour ur heartfelt libations on her.. Lemme get some sleep abeg! Walk straight to her and pour ur heartfelt libations on her.. Lemme get some sleep abeg!

When two elephants fights.........grasses suffer. Pls this strike has lasted more than we fellow compatriots envisaged. Fp today!

Really independent...one time for d real niggas!!!

Orikinla: An administration that has failed to protect the citizens is not fit to rule.

As if u are ignorant of huge sums of money spent on ds dreaded sadists!!

Mr president, since your inception as d president of this giant country what has been ur most eccentric setback and hindrance to the fulfilment of promises during the elections. And also to what effect has ur dividends of democracy yielded on d masses.

[/color][color=]Goodmorning y'all . Pls I'm searching for the brightest n d most previledged prestigious graduates in d building. The madonnaites pls! ;DGoodmorning y'all . Pls I'm searching for the brightest n d most previledged prestigious graduates in d building. The madonnaites pls!

Count down to November!!!!!! Madonna first Son in d building,,,,,,hail y'all

Mmmmmhhh

---

Mmmmmhhh

Saying top of d morning to y'all and a big congratZz to my fellow Madonnaites who made d batch B prospective list..Tuale!!! ;DSaying top of d morning to y'all and a big congratZz to my fellow Madonnaites who made d batch B prospective list..Tuale!!!

Morning prospective otondoos.......seems november refuses to show up....I rep d madonnites...1 love