AmalAtta:

Lol. Well then thank GOD I'm not on the Army thread.

lol sure. success in ur pursuit.

AmalAtta:
Please people,
I am a 1.63m female applicant and the height requirement is 1.65m. How strict is the Nigerian Navy on this?
As for having a member certificate from your professional body, I'm an Architect and it's almost impossible to procure this before age 28. What do I do?
The Acknowledgement Form and Parent/Guardian Form, how do I secure/do these?
I just went through a list of the successful candidates, and it would seem that females are scarcely consisered. Please apart from the obvious reason of strength, why does it appear so?

These answers may have been given already but forgive me if I haven't been able to go through a thread of 245 pages.

lol 245 pages and u r complaining? come to Army thread where we have 441 pages but still ask people to start reading from page 1

Damfostopper:
See as I dey refresh this page like say na livescores I dey check

lol.. wen ur game dey 85th minute nd u dey wait for 1 goal make ur over 2.5 enter

SFcommander1:
bros, talk wat u knw abeg

lol bros calm down. Na wetin I see here I dey talk na..

woke up this morning and rushed here hoping to see 100+ unread messages only to see 15. I just know say list neva show.

SFcommander1:
Sir, what about list

lol.. see as you ask am like say na him hold d list

KODACK:
Sojeee and Ugo4U

I just saw this and it's very surprising tho.
CDS senior COAS.
also I thought we dont have Generals (i.e 4 star General)
Do we have air cheif Marshal's,Admirals and more 4 star generals??...

Cos I tot buratai was the highest with three star

see as dem make CNS look like dwarf

sameereinstein:
I like the baret to that hat. I'm not a fan of hat sha

I actually prefer d hat to d face cap

sikowitz17:
Yes...to enable you travel to posted state and possibly get hotel accommodation pending when you'll be settled where you are posted to.

very well den

sikowitz17:
Its actually 30k and 15k is being kept for u.

It has always been 30k total..
This is a course 44 officer telling me what's up..

and the rest will be paid at once upon commissioning ryt

sameereinstein:
I have a question.
Why is it that army does not wear face cap (baseball cap) just like airforce, but instead uses only pork pie hat. Is it possible to wear face cap like airforce instead of the "traditional" army cap?

you r correct. I've only seen them wear dat round hat nd one other black beret

eclipsehemmy:
brother I smell list...... God favour us ooooo

Amen

SFcommander1:
One research reveOne research revealed than more american soldiers die during training than in combat zones. Even Gen. Agim, former Defence Headquarters spokesman testified that the Nigerian Army expect 15-20 percent of cadets to die during training each year. Joining the army no be play o. Always zero your mind and prepare for the worst. Just be prepared to go in as a dead man, and if God is on your side you m lucky to come out alive. Gentlemen, may our days be rough.

there is no paean without pain.

blazex24:

Where be ur location?

I dey take location to agip fly over

ELJC:
broda we dey o

so u sef dey ph.. hopefully our name go show. we go gather go kaduna together

blazex24:
Port Harcourt pple no de ds thread? Today na friday I wan drink beer with new person abeg

come make we go jog together 2moro

Prospect048:
You guys should go to your department and meet the HOD.

OK man. thanks

blazex24:
My school say na only who de use statement of result dem fit give attestation letter oh, say if Army wan confirm my result make them come by theirselves + they go need pay for the confirmation

Local man is tired

same thing I was told. secretary to the registra said its only students they give the attestation letter. She said as long as you have your original cert, they won't give u.

ugo4u:
That one na dole... But army work is very sweet without Northeast.

school is sweet without exams

ugo4u:

nothing is as glorious and melodious as the ringtones of hot metals being expelled from rifles and RPGs.
Gentlemen and ladies the video should be enough motivation.

morale high

Jhennie:
I don dey prepare..
I go soon crap the thing finish

see people wey get sure odds

jameh48:
Baba, calm down. List go show, you hear, but make some people no kill themselves before list show... ...Some kind anxiety na killer anxiety o, make everybody loosen up. No be quarrel matter. My Ogas dem for here, and my senior Oga Ugo4u, hope I no dey trespass?

no wahala baba.

Lynette2cute:


Therefore you guys should litter the thread.......Who's talking about high bp sef. Anybody should claim to be what he wants to be. We're not interested in dragging matters back and forth. Anything you claim to be na for your pocket, you no dey feed anybody. I repeat if its not list, then forget it. I'm not interested in lives and history of applicants. Every mallam to his kettle.

honestly wen I see 200+ messages for followed topics I think say list don show o

eclipsehemmy:
they are not separated na.... Dey always release it together

alright boss. na d way ugo4u take talk d dssc specially come dey fear me

eclipsehemmy:
prospect kum see wetin we dey discuss o.... Ya Intel is on point oooo

make una find Intel for ssc o

ugo4u:
Ok intels reaching me have it that DSSC will be out next week.
Pls don't ask me about source.

Abeg find Intels for SSC o

LexyJay02:
A whole speaker.... This one dey amidst strong security forces on Independence day e still dey wear bullet proof under Agbada. God bless the Nigerian army ooooo. Chai

that doesn't look like a bullet proof to me o. Shey dem dey wear bullet proof for belle ni

ELJC:
kodack would u love to live in 6 Division �

you dey 6 division?

odimbannamdi:
Gentlemen,

Its been a while I commented here. I have been on the sidelines reading the interesting discourse and banters going on since registration began. It is impressive to see that our morale is as high as ever.

In my usual attitude of giving back to Nairaland, the community that has helped me achieve most of my professional/career feats, I want to drop a few nuggets culled from my attendance of the SSC course 44 and course 45 screening exercise.

1. Don’t burn those bridges: With the registration period over, a lot of lobbying is going on at the higher echelon and big men will assure candidates of making the first shortlistment. I repeat, even if your godfather is the COAS, don’t get your hopes overly high. It is not 100% sure for anybody. Go on and pursue the goals of your current career path, while you wait/hope for the best.

Apply for those other jobs, keep being serious with your present employment, write that certification exam, apply for that study program, pick that postgraduate form.

The first shortlistment for 2016 came out the week I was to purchase the Unilag postgraduate form, which happened to be last week the form would be on sale. When I saw my name in the list, I didn’t even bother buying the form anymore as I was so sure of making final list. But alas, I didn’t get in, and I also didn’t make that educational advancement I would have loved as well. I lost out on both ends

2. It is better to be overqualified: This is to our DSSC aspirants, most especially. Get those extra certifications, whether they were requested for or not, and as long as they are relevant to your course. The competition for DSSC is fierce and you need all the leverage that you can get

3. You are a soldier. Zero your mind: Whether you get in via DSSC or SSC, or you are a male or female, you are first a soldier before anything else. Insurgency, violence and terrorism is not stopping anytime soon. Read the news. So zero your mind and be ready for the worst as you embark on this journey

4. Passion is not enough. Is this really your calling?: Everybody attributes their interest in the Army to passion. Even I did. But trust me, it takes more than passion. It also involves it being God’s ultimate plan for you.

As you speak to the God of your realization regarding this journey every morning, appeal to Him to make it come to pass IF it is His perfect will for you. Otherwise, pray that it doesn’t work out and that He gives you the fortitude to move on, for your own sake and those of your loved ones. Apologies if I sound religious or sanctimonious, it just that I learnt a lot on this journey.

Let me indulge us

In 2016, I was evicted for having a flat foot, shortsightedness in my right eye and umbilical hernia. Read details here: https://www.nairaland.com/3319739/nairalanders-experience-army-ssc-course. Obviously, two of these defects are irreparable and a layman (and maybe a spiritual discerning eye) would have dismissed my military ambition based on them. But I thought they were just obstacles that I could surmount. So, in December 2017, under the encouragement of explosiveskull (brother, how have you been?) I went under the knife and repaired my umbilical hernia. I was ready for course 45.

In October or so, in 2018, course 45 form came out and I applied again. This time, I had very senior men strategically stationed to help me pull through. They all gave unflinching assurances of assistance. There were all indications that I was going to get in. You guys needed to see me at the airport, about to embark on the journey from Lagos to Abuja. My morale was roof-breaking. Signing was done at MS office, Abuja. Soldiers just dey pay me compliments as they thought I was a young officer, with my well-shaved face. From Abuja, I took off to NDA to report with very high morale!!

Barely 3 days into the screening exercise, on the night of the day we wrote our exam at Command Secondary School, NDA, I encountered a mysterious catastrophe.

We were on the parade ground, in the bone-chilling cold till around 11pm or so when we began filing up according to our states to go back to our hostels. Sergeant Dauda then ordered us to look around and pick up any dirt on the parade ground and dispose it off. Being from Abia state, Adamawa happened to be closest to us. A candidate from Adamawa state then picked up a PET bottle, and in a bid to dispose it off, he flung it towards me and it went straight into my left eye – my good eye.

The force was so much that I lost vision in the eye immediately. My life replayed before me in split seconds and I saw my loving family and fiancée, and colleagues at the office. I wondered how I was going to face them back home with one eye. I screamed and began begging them to take me to MRS, but the soldiers refused that an officer must sign for me to go for treatment. Sgt. Dauda thought I was pranking. He even gave me a dirty slap across my face for shouting, but when light was shone on the eye and saw it, he shouted. Two of my good friends had to hold me by the hand and led me back to the hostel as I am severely short-sighted in my right eye. I refused to look in the mirror at the hostel coz I knew the sight would haunt me forever. But people who saw the eye said my eyeball rescinded and my conjunctiva was blood red and sunken

That night, I couldn’t sleep. I wept like a baby. The Army dream didn’t matter to me anymore. I just wanted my vision back.

It was until the next morning I began to see little flickers of light. But I had now become acutely short-sighted in the affected eye because of what I later discovered to be an inflammation of my optic nerve due to the blunt trauma I suffered, plus my pupil was severely dilated that I was very photo-sensitive. My friend had to give me his sun-shades to protect the eye from light. I was in excruciating pain. For those of us who began course 45 screening from day 1, you will remember a big guy that wore dark shades the morning we began medicals. That was me.

So that morning we began medical screening and we were taken to Afaka in that long bus. Godfather was on ground to waive my flatfoot and blood pressure (which had now developed because of the incident). But they gave me some drugs for my eye and directed me to return the next day so that they will conduct screening on both eyes

The next morning, there was little to no improvement in the eye, plus I was now feeling very sick because of the pain I was passing through. I just couldn’t go on with exercise anymore. I needed to treat my eye before I lose it completely. So I dropped a note for the board that morning, carried my kaya and left NDA by 5am. I first went to National eye centre or so at NDA bypass, from there I returned to Lagos. Senior men are still angry with me, that I am a runaway cadet…lol.

I suffered that period and spent a lot of money treating the eye. The eye has improved, but it is a little smaller than the other one now; the pupil is still dilated, and I have to wear sunglasses when the sun is scorching and I occasionally see flashes of light from the corner of my eye. The eye consultant said I could be at risk of retinal detachment, but I pray it doesn’t deteriorate to that level. Amen.

In retrospect now, I think the Military wasn’t my calling at all. I was just being desperate, under the guise of passion, even though I was not doing badly in my civilian life. God placed those physical impediments (flatfoot and shortsightedness) to deter me from the career path, but I was very hellbent so He let that very mysterious incident happen to me. The question I kept asking myself was

- Why didnt that bottle hit me on the chin or forehead or nose or just somewhere else? It went straaaaaight into my eye. My eyelid wasn’t scratched one bit. Just straight in my eye
- Why did that incident happen a night to medical and not the next day so that I would at least do my eye test and move on?
- Why didn’t the bottle hit me in my already weak eye (right eye) so that the eye test would be done on the good eye and it will be assumed that I am shortsighted in my right eye because of the trauma?

Many many questions rampaging in my mind! But I suspect that if that incident hadn’t happen, I would have encountered a worse one during training and maybe on the job itself.

Before now, I doubt I ever pursued an ambition as resolutely as I pursued the Army ambition. I was not even up to the minimum age when i applied in 2016. For 5years of my life, I lived, breathed, dreamt the dream. I don’t exactly have regrets, I just feel sad that it ended the way it did.

In all, I have come to appreciate my life more.

Again, I apologize if I scared anyone. That wasn’t the intent of this tip. The aim is for you to do a lot of soul-searching as you embark on this journey

5. Move on. It is not the end of the world for you: In the next couple of weeks and months, the Army shortlistment will shatter a lot of hearts. The heartbreak will be worse than the one your first girl/boyfriend gave you, especially if you reached the final stage of the interview with high hopes but did not make final shortlistment. But try to move on, It is not the end of the world. Better things await you.

Finally, as I drop my pen, I want to render a heartfelt appreciation to Ugo4u. The benevolence of this young man transcends beyond the posts he makes here. His nature is just kind-hearted. I was stressed when I got into Kaduna, and he harboured me for a few hours. That evening, we even went to town to photocopy my documents before I entered NDA. Bro, I saw the sparkle in your eyes as you bade me farewell just when I boarded that bus to NDA. How you wished I got in. I apologize for not living up to your expectations, bro. The higher powers didn’t want me to. Please relay my regards to mumsy.

PS: I didn’t apply for course 46. The Army dream is now dead and buried. We have dreamt new dreams and we are now chasing them. For as many that applied, I wish you what I would have wished myself. For those who will eventually get in, I earnest pray that God preserves your life as you navigate through the uncertainties of this career.

Amen.

This piece is touching. Good thing you are feeling better.

Victory is from God

olawaleseun:

IMHO, I think it's better make person try sign all those forms for ground sef and to start incorporating healthy lifestyles that can possibly boost the Medical test

some people prefer signing after list but for the healthy lifestyle, u r very correct.

your name show o, your name no show o at least you stay healthy.

Damfostopper:
Lol.... Many that needs this information ...let's say about 90% of them have not visited here yet to get this information ......3 days from now..... There will be greater influx.... With the "my phone/system has crashed, or it has been stolen, or data wipe out"

the wahala go come worse wen list show and people see their name. u go dey hear different excuses. Dat period dey funny die

ugo4u:
3 days to go





Pls print all printables or at worst make a screenshot of all your documents, then backup either on your email or iCloud.

U don dey shout am since o..Wait till list come out, you will start hearing different stories