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On Thursday morning, I wore my white kits and went for parade. We used the morning parade for the swearing in rehearsals, all the marching styles and salutations ( to be honest, I wasn’t really interested in it). After the rehearsal we went back to the hostel to have our baths and get food to eat. Unfortunately for me I didn’t have the time to get to the market to buy food. Why didn’t I just eat the camp food ? Well there are various reasons, but one of it was that the first food I saw was weird. They served okra and eba, when I looked at the okra soup the okra was passing through the water. Just like when Moses was passing through the sea. To put the final nail on the coffin I heard they used Ajinomoto as the seasoning, the same Ajinomoto people use for bleaching white. Make this aboki chef no go bleach my intestines lol!
What I also noticed was that About 70% of the Corpers here are from kwara state ( uni ilorin, kwara state university and all other polytechnics in kwara state). The way you’d know these students is when ever they talk they would surely put “fah”. But the main people making the camp fun for me are the guys from warri! When it comes to comedy we just have to give it to them. They have this way they speak their pidgin that makes the joke funnier.

So on Friday nothing really happened because I was sick and I was admitted. Now let me tell you one thing I hate about the north, it’s the houseflies and mosquitoes. Those mosquitoes and houseflies are really troublesome, if you think the ones in south are stubborn then you know nothing. When you Compare the mosquitoes in Lagos to that of the north, then You’d know the mosquitoes in Lagos are still doing IT when you compare them to their mates up north

To be continued

When we got to the gate, the NSCDC official asked me to bring out my ID card, call up letter and medical certificates. Then he went on to check my bag, while checking it he found some drugs ( anti malaria drugs). Immediately he said these drugs aren’t allowed and he’s going to confiscate it. Then I told him of my experience in Lagos with a Hausa drug seller. I wanted to buy flaggyl from one mallam. Then the mallam replied by saying do I want to buy the 150 naira own or 350 naira own . In my mind I knew the mallam didn’t know what he was doing or he was purposely selling fake drugs. Since then I’ve made up my mind not to trust these aboki’s selling drugs by the road side. The nscdc officials and I just laughed at my experience and I was asked to go in. So at the gate I bought I bought mosquito net for 500, then we started trekking down to the hostel. There was no light and my phone battery was low so I had to use my friends phone for light. So the ladies went their separate ways and said good night to olamide, seyi and I went to the male hostel. We got to one one tree then we met two army men who asked us where we were coming from, seyi replied Lagos. Then one of the soldier asked if we were tired, immediately I shouted “yes oooo I am tired”. They laughed and said “una never sabi anything”

We got to the hostel and I noticed almost everyone going to carry bunk and mattress outside. Seyi and I joined them. After setting up our bed space I asked one guy if there was bathroom, he laughed and said “bathroom no Dey this place ooo”. We finally slept off around 2:30.

Around 4 most guys in the room were already awake, they were all putting on their white shirts and shorts. I remember one Nairalander telling us a trick to avoid parade; which is that you’d have to wear mufti and carry your file, so these soldiers and man o war won’t stop you.

About 8 am on Wednesday I went to join the queue for the registration. Around 10 it was my turn, when the man checked the signature on my certificate it was different from what the school uploaded so the man asked me to wait for over 30 mins before he finally approved it. After registration I knew I was in platoon 4, I went to collect my kits. When I got to my hostel I noticed almost everything wasn’t my size, the jungle boot and white canvas were too small, while the khaki were toooooooo massive for me. It was as if they used 6 yards material for the trouser and another 6 yard for the jacket. So it was time for evening parade, I still wore my mufti outside.

Now let me tell you some few things about the north. The sun comes up as early as 7:00am in the morning and sets around 5:30pm in the afternoon and it’s blazing hot!

After the evening parade, I met one of the guys who was supposed to follow the company that was meant to transport us to camp. Coincidentally he was in platoon 4, we became good friends and he suggested that we should join OBS so as to skip the parade. We went for the obs registration, the guy just said “write your name we go call you later”. After registration we went to chill at the market, my friend nicknamed “Scot” brought about 3 babes for us to chill in the market.

The market was not really that lively like that of Lagos camp. Firstly they don’t sell alcohol, secondly, most of all the vendors were just selling noodles (shey na indomie I wan chop for 3 weeks). Scot, the 3 babes and I all chilled and introduced ourselves. Few minutes past 10pm we went back to our hostel to sleep




To be continued

I’m probably in the department of rational reasoning!

Kabir2Mohammad:
How was the weather?
I know it will take u days before your body acclimatized

well I fell sick sha

This is my personal experience

Well this is actually my first telling a story. But I’d try and paint a very good picture of the north as a first timer. (get ready to see through my lens).

Let me give a brief introduction about myself. Just so you know I was born, grew and schooled in Lagos, except my university life which I did in otta (it’s still close to Lagos, so I can indirectly call it Lagos ). Technically I have never left Lagos state. I graduated this year from the department of civil engineering. Just so you know my parents were still taking me to school and bringing me back home during vacations .

So I planned on using this NYSC period to explore the other parts of Nigeria (especially the northern states). I was really interested in the northern states because the way Nairalanders usually comment negatively about these northern states. Based on their comments, I had already pictured how the northern states would be in my mind (seeing camels and donkeys instead of cars ) don’t mind my childish imagination. I also had one course mate of mine who was from plateau and I was always teasing him that when ever he graduates he would immediately dethrone the king of his village, cause he’d become the first graduate from his village. Until he cleared my doubts that the north is not really as bad as the way the media portrays it to be. So that also fuelled my curiosity to visit the north and see these people.

So fast forward to the nysc online registration. I picked Borno, Enugu, Kano and Cross river as my preferred state to serve. Most of my friends were telling me how they wanted to arrange their nysc package so as they can serve in their state of choice. But I felt well then we are already defeating the reason for nysc . When the call up letter came up I saw Borno and I saw that we’d be camping at baba ruga katsina. I was actually happy.






To be continued

who was sent to borno also?

vybzkartel:
Just before I woke fully from bed, I heard a loud strange trumpet sound for about a minute.

Very scary sound.

I was like half asleep half awake and it was just a loud trumpet sound

Can you relate? What could it mean?

it means nothing!
it is probably someone playing his trumpet from the next compound or your mind is just playing tricks

Bleep! i thought it was 12th before

BathingSoap:
Few months ago, i created a thread on front page on how i have lost interest in school and education because of my poor academic performance

https://www.nairaland.com/5253585/help....i-lost-interest-school-pls

Today i just found out that i failed two of my final year papers, thus giving me an extra year, i didn't know at first but as my mom kept pestering me to apply for law school, i had to check the list my school forwarded to Abuja, Garki, for those eligible to apply for law school, and discovered my name was not included.

I was discombobulated because i already made good the due process involved in the application prior to this day, i was advised by colleagues to check my result and lo and behold i failed 2 courses in my second semester yr 5.

I have failed my parents, especially my mom who invested a lot in my schooling, i might not be able to go back to the school for the extra year, i don't even know how to tell my parents, or what to do next, if i had known i would never have attended the uni, rather would have learnt a skill or focused on freelancing but i guess its all too late now.

i would advice you to go back and write those two papers. pending the time you are waiting for the exams just continue on the freelance job you made mention in the previous thread

Truthdefender66:
Whether evolution is a fact or not, this doesn't affect my argument because reading, interpretation and implementation of information on the DNA template to construct and assemble different parts of animal body during embryonic development require intelligence.
In other words, the transformation of a very tiny zygote into a comparatively huge and marvelous new born baby is definitely the work of intelligence. And intelligence cannot be the owner of itself.

If life had no beginning, then you should have made a tangible point by saying life also had no creator just like our ultimate designer who created an information processing system in a living cell. But alas, life came to exist about 3.5 billion years ago. Therefore, life must definitely have a creator because it began to exist.

can you give me any example of any life that was created by an intelligent designer?

Life must have a creator because it began to exist 3.5 billion years ago?
The problem I have with you is that you already conclude your answer before you ask the question.

This is how your analogy sounds

This wristwatch is complex : therefore an intelligent designer made it

Life is complex therefore an intelligent designer made it.

Premise 2

The complex watch was made in 2006
Therefore life was made in 2006

You can’t be committing the false analogy fallacy to argue.

I want this to be a religious debate not a scientific debate. Cause if you claim you know science then you don’t! Cause no serious scientist would ask these ridiculous questions

Truthdefender66:
But one particular thing is certain; if an information on the DNA template managed to be evolved and changed with time by a certain natural process, then READING, INTERPRETATION and IMPLEMENTATION of this very information to construct and assemble different parts of animal body during embryonic development can never also evolved by a natural process because we know from experience that these three processes (reading, interpretation and implementation of an information) can only originate from an " intelligent mind "

You’re just using the watchmaker argument.

First of all this your argument fails because evolution is a fact!

Let’s assume we don’t want to use evolution to refute this argument. If life is complex and something complex requires an intelligent designer. Then god is complex and indirectly he’d need to be created by an intelligent designer and this goes on and on till infinity leading to an infinite regress.

But if you decide to commit the begging the question fallacy and decide that god is the ultimate designer and he doesn’t require a designer. Then I can use your logic to say that life also had no creator

To to be intellectually honest. The best answer is “we do not know how life started” but we know how complex life evolved.

johnydon22:
Interesting: I have a question.

There are type of people who derive pleasure from pain especially sexual pleasure, I believe it is called BDSM.

So, at the point they are inflicting this pain, they are obviously experiencing pain, are they also suffering?

Yes they are suffering physically but not sexually and emotionally

well this is a very tough question this is turning to philosophy.

With my basic understanding, suffering is basically when we feel pain either physically or emotionally

Analogy: Imagine you borrow your best friend all your life savings and the person promises to return the money on a particular. Just for you to find out that he died a day he was supposed to return the money.

there would be two reasons why you will shed tears
1) Your best friend is gone
2) your money is gone
This is the best analogy i can give considering suffering

Bleep! you are trying to say that we were intelligently designed right? To be honest. with this bullshit you have written up there, i just had to conclude that you were not intelligently designed

well let me hope so

Image123:
The Bible, how else?

well I can write anything I like and place it in the bible or Koran and call it a fact. If there’s no evidence for it then it isn’t a fact!

no matter the amount of belief doesn’t make something a fact!

Image123:
Evidence for a future event? Do you smoke weed?

You made a claim that when we die we would face judgement. My question is how did you know?

Image123:
Of course. But not necessarily on earth. Judgement day is coming. I wonder how many hindus we have in the house that they are frequently yapping karma karma.

do you have any evidence for this your judgement day claim or it’s just something you were told about

babyfaceafrica:
I take it,you are not religious!!

yeah I’m an unbeliever

I presume You’re indirectly talking about karma. The idea that if you do good you’d get good reward and if you do bad you’d get a bad reward is common amongst religious beliefs.

This type of idea is useless. If you think your Business partner who cheated you in the business will in future get cheated on or something evil will happen to him. Then you must be delusional. The truth of the matter there’s no evidence for the theory of karma.

The world isn’t fair. If you do good now, in the future there’s a probability that either good or bad can happen to you.

I hope you understand what I’m trying to say

peggywebbs:
I don't agree with you o. There are many things that don't exist and I don't see anyone talking about it everyday. I don't believe fairies exist and I don't raise topics about it. You athiests constantly raise topics about God everyday.

First of all, i feel god is very petty! when an atheist brings up a question about god. There are two major reasons
1) to understand how believers interpret god. (how they understand the concept of god)
2) to mock god

And please when you talk about the murder of millions in religion you all are still in error. How can you blame God for the murder of millions. You people have failed to seperate the work of a human being from that of a God you don't believe exist.

who commanded them to go on a killing spree?

If a Christian kills it's the same as when a non believer kills. You kill with your hands, God doesn't put the guns in anybody's hands because he wants people to fight his battles. You keep comparing psychopaths that hide under religion. Extremism is not the work of God, it is just a mental patient with a bible.

well, if i decide i want to go on a killing spree because i read a verse in my bible or my quran which commanded to kill non believers. (don't forget the holy book was supposedly authored by the omniscient and moral standard being). Then this means something is wrong with god and that particular religion

And again God is omnipotent and yes he has enemies because the last time I checked we all have free will. It's the free will we have that allows you to come on nairaland to oppose the idea of a God. Like I said many times before your problem is not God, it is man. Man to man. Just as you don't believe in God, some other crazy people believe in aliens, some crazy people believe that when they fight for God they get virgins ,some will even think killing enemies of God means they get a share in ruling heaven. These are all mental patients.

GOD CAN NOT BE OMNISCIENT AND HAVE FREE WILL AT THE SAME TIME! How on earth is that possible?

abdulgaffar22 i think you are needed here.

Kamaye:
Access Bank loan is for everyone not just salary earners as long as you have an account with them and meet their T&C's.

okay thank you.

But I saw their banner which says salary account only

jesusjnr:
Prove me wrong.

The church played a significant role in your both becoming "atheists".

not really! I have always been a shaky non believer, but the church reinforced my lack of belief in god more.

LordReed:
Really?! Interesting so you don't go at all anymore?

well I graduated from the school, so I do not have to go there anymore

LordReed:
Living Faith Church aka Winners. Still do by the way.

wow! I never knew. I used to attend it

[quote author=OLAADEGBU post=64817945][/quote]Well most non believers I know would rather say “ I don’t know” than claim something without enough evidence performed the act

I just hope he has the relevant knowledge; probably as a civil engineer

Rapsowdee01:
Hello, please i need information on studying in Canada as an undergraduate.. Most of the posts i see here are post graduates enquiries.

I left school since 2013 and i still haven't gone to the uni. Only went to a polytechnic, finished last year.

Please help

do you have the finance to study abroad? if you do and you are willing to go, you can just go to the university of your choice websites and apply, provide the necessary documents. Then hope they give you a provisional admission.
But if you do not have the finance and you want to still study there, then i would strongly advise you not to travel out, as it is not easy as OP is making it seem. If you can find any scholarship board that is willing to sponsor you then you can go for it.
If you really want to travel out of Nigeria to study, why don't you go to countries that most of their universities are top ranking like the UK and USA?

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WinningEleven:
I'm sorry but it seems your prayers were not answered or you were too blind or stubborn to see that prayer that worked for you. The latter is more likely.

Turn to God today and see wonders happen to your life. I am a living witness

prayers don’t work it’s a known fact!

When people need rain they see a meteorologist who forecasts the weather. People do not pray for rain anymore.

When people are choking they don’t pray, they perform the Heimlich maneuver.
These are the few examples people use to pray for. So with these few examples I hope you can see prayers are irrelevant