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Chriswazo:
Thank you sir for your reply, but please can you tell me why many pcm will always prefer Kadunna to any other northern state? I have been trying to figure out but yet don't have a clue as to why Kadunna is better than other northern states. Do you know sir?

Though Kaduna is a Muslim state, it's not as strict as any other northern state. in kaduna you are free to do what you like. it's a modernized city. though Kano is more developed than Kaduna.

Welcome to my state of origin. It's one of the best place to serve. I can authoritatively assure you.

Obey the clarion call

Welcome to Kano state.

You have done great Pastor. I so much admire you. You are indeed a blessing to my life.

I always remember that one day you will b no more. that day I pray not to come, because I cant stand not hearing from you every Monday. From my church the word of God sounded from you and it ministered and kept me. I wasn't a member, I hated your members but I was wrong. when I heard the word of God from your mouth, I knew it's God's word. I had no option than to submit.

May God keep you, May He preserve you. God be with you. you will live long.

Chriswazo:
Op well done o, please i want ask between Kano and Kadunna which will you suggest to be better in terms of security, development, social amenities and other good things of life including higher money flow.
Dreamcomtru, if you don't mind i will like to contact you, I like your reactions to sensitive issues.

Kaduna.

Though they are many companies in Kano and market too. but in terms of what you listed, I think Kaduna is best for you. Kano is cool too just this Hausa people and their wahala.

I have this fear, the fear of Hausa men. they can do and undo. They can give a man sleeveless if they see you do anything or have any affair with their daughter. the more reason, our Lecturer-student relationship is best for what I want to achieve.

Earlier before last week ended, I met another Hausa girl. this one is matured, I was very happy when she told me she is not from Kano. yes, it means I have no business whatsoever with any Hausa man. she proved to b matured. she spoke English very well. I intend to have a fruitful relationship with this one.

My Kano girl put a fear in me. She said something that have many meanings to me. Something any man is afraid of in Kano. That you will read next time. thanks, "Antashi lafiya "?? Lafiya lau

Yea, I got a female Hausa friend. Very beautiful. anyone who have been to Kano or served in Kano can attest up the fact that the beauty of this Hausa girls can make one convert to Islam. little wonder why they are taught here in Kano that only Hausa men can marry a Christian girl but not the other way round.

As I work to deliver my lecture, in my departmental office, their faces so shine that one can spend the whole alloweee on them. Their unique smile, gentle look, down to earth attitude and unmatched dress makes them virtuous women.

For the prospective Kano corpers, get ready to see fine girls. it's common. When I met this one, her beauty overshadowed her bad English, yes, you need to see her to believe. she look more or less like buhari's daughter. Anytime you speak to them, they are happy. We met in the school premise and I know it's not an emotional relationship. I just needed an Hausa female friend. one who can enlighten me on their way of life, teach me Hausa and be close at all times with nothing else attached.

NYSC is another way our government can make money from this private companies and employers, Even state employers too. I strongly believe that and I have thought about it and know it's possible. I have the plan but in Nigeria, your business plan is your business plan.

one thing I know I must achieve is to make my students great physicists. I teach engineering student yet many of then have declared openly their love for physics. Because I teach them physics with authority and how it is applied by our engineering brothers. Infact I told them that Nigerian engineers will never invent anything UNLESS quantum mechanics is emphasized in thier scheme of work. If not we will continue to produce repair and assemble engineers and keep importing newly developed computer gadgets because everything about technology is embedded in QUANTUM MECHANICS.

The way and manner they will become physicists is what is best know to them. But I am sure they are falling in love with physics. I try to be good in what I do.

One thing I discovered in my PPA is that they use cheap labour from Nysc yet they don't pay. They apply to Nysc to send them H.Sc holders (first class and second class upper graduates), HND holders (distinction and upper credit candidates). They get the best of Nigerian graduates yet they don't pay. Physics graduates are very scare in Kano. Infact when we got they, we were told that they are in dire need of physicists. And we happened to be two physicists sent to the school. They have very few physics lecturers, infact my H.O.D just told me that they want to employ atleast 3 physicists. Though I am not qualified because I don't have NYSC discharge certificate!!! imagine. Am watching in 3D. The pay is good and I pray I get qualified, only God knows.

But the point is that most employers of NYSC labour use NYSC as source of cheap labour. In my PPA, a graduate assistant with 2:1 or first class is paid a start up fee of N98k, now I have the same qualification, I do the same or even better job with no pay simply because it's an NYSC, and they have greatly depended on NYSC for a very long time. if this corper go, another ones will come. I urge the federal government to collect money from this employers of labor and increase the NYSC salary structure

The official language in Kano state is Hausa. Infact Nothing like vernacular speaking, whether in official places Hausa dominate. I remember in my undergraduate days that one of my friend spoke to our H.O.D in igbo language and he was rebuked by the head of department, it's unlike that in Kano.

in the office, the students speak Hausa to the H.O.D or any of their lecturers. one day I told my H.O.D that they is no way this people can learn English if they(the lecturers) speak Hausa to the students. Infact I was told to even use Hausa to teach physics.

Just yesterday one of my female friend told sent a text message to me with different kinds of English. "sir, I am a joke", the other day a friend received a message a showed us the text, it reads," sir, my ba3 is dangerous" and the likes of them.

whenever a child I born in Kano, he is first shown RELIGION, so for them, Religion or nothing else. One of my students hair looked very untidy, he happened to be the course representative, when I encouraged him to shave his beards and barb his hair, he told me that according to his religion, he is an Afar and should look like one. I was greatly shocked and ended the discussion because you dare not go against their religious. In Kano state, Religion is first.


The child's first education is ISLAMIYYA, where they study Islamic studies, I have asked what is the purpose of islamiyya and I was told it's for the study of quoran. For years this people study other peoples language only to read the quoran. they don't know anything else save their islamiyya. They don't joke with it. The child will go to islamiyya till he gets to primary five before he is allowed to enter into the conventional (western education) education. only then will he or she starts to learn how to speak English. To you find out that someone who just finished secondary school in Kano state may not speak or express himself in English. when you ask them question in class, they are shy not because they don't know then answer but they don't know how to express their opinion.

I gave a test and told one of them to meet me, after the lecture, he came, I asked him why he wants to meet me, he started speaking Hausa. Upon the fact they he got everything he wrote correctly, even when he wrote in English language yet he can't speak a word in English. that is the life on students in Kano state. They are only interested in Islamiyya

Please am so sorry, I have been busy with lectures. I don't have any lecture today, so as soon as am done with my morning chores, I will update this thread. Get ready to read.

nnamdiosu:
op i served in kano too. 2013 batch c. you didnt say your own batch and year. i served at the nysc secreteriat, the ict department. kano is fun seriously. but the heat and cold na die. early in the year thats when the cold starts then till late in the year. in the afternon, we wear socks becos of the cold. i believe you stayed on gwaro road or near kofa famfur,(cos thats near the college of education and the buk uni) please continue. im really enjoying these memories your reminding me of. kudos

Thanks, I don't want to say exactly where I live sir. It's not only one college of education that is in Kano. Nysc Secretariat is in gwale L.G.A, kabuga. Congratulations on your successful service. Kano is fun if you know the way. seems you are a regular visitor to sabongari. Outside Sabongari, Kano is NEVER FUN

missyojo:
Am enjoying this gist of yours, so sad i had to redeploy from kano state. if not i would have atleast have an experience about life in kano as a corper.

Lol. it's cool anyway, batch A16?

one of the guy I met in Kano told me to convert to Islam that Islam is the best religion. he was bold enough to tell me that. I just looked at him and whispered to his hear that no religion is better than each other.

Kano is a very religious place. they mount speakers even in electric pole. El-Rufia can't enforce that his bill in Kano here.

you can't count five houses without seeing a mosque. Here is full of mosque. their ladies don't come outside and you Dere not work while holding a lady here in Kano. if she like let her her your wife, they never born you to try it. inside keke napep, you are not allowed to sit touching a lady though some motorists don't care about whether you touch them or not.

Another thing here in Kano is that the fence of every house is almost the height of the roof of the building. no matter how local the house is, it must have a fence as high as the roof. The Emir of Kanos house has a very high fence such that even if you are in a storey building, you wouldn't see the inside. They do it to protect their wife, they don't want you to see their wife or daughter.

And you don't visit them. if you manage to get any female friend in Kano, you don't visit her, she is the only one to visit you, else, if any Muslim man see you in his house, just know that one of your hand is gone.

till tomorrow, sai gobe, or sai da safe , it's a Muslim way of saying,"good night, till tomorrow". Allah iy kai'mu, Amin[may God make it to happen]

Islamiyya is the school for Islamic studies, its everywhere in Kano. once a child is born, he is first sent to islamiyya, where he undergoes his primary level up to primary six. after primary six, then he begins the western education (conventional). Islamiyya is very important to them. I will be lecturing and the next thing is that someone will raise his hand, thinking he wants to ask a question, what I will hear is that it's time for islamiyya.


At that point you have no choice than to stop, if you don't then you are on your own. these are students who are out of secondary school.

In Kano state, you are forced to dress like them. its unlike the south that a lady will tell you that she has a right to wear whatever she wish to wear. it's opposite here in Kano. a lady Dere not leave her hair uncovered or wear anything revealing her body, if you try it, you will be dead.

The height of religious intolerance is too high in Kano. they can trample upon your right, they don't care what you believe, they don't care who you are. they care vwry less about the constitution. they only do those things that seem right to them.

You may go to fetch water at the borehole, then the next thing you will see is someone who wants to pray coming to the borehole and putting his hand inside you bucket. they call it ablutions.

whether it violet your believe is your business. They are taught to put religion first in whatever they do. Infact they care less about what the world see them as. they don't give a Bleep on what you think about them.

The western education is called conventional educational here in Kano. it's the second education one attends after completing the first set of Islamic studies called islamiyya.

Kano is a very religious community, apart from Lagos, Abuja, I don't think they is any state that is as big and developed as Kano state. Leave all this rating, those that rate Kano state probably haven't been to the state or may have visited it for a very long time now. I have been to PH, akwa ibom, Enugu, but you can't compare them to Kano. the reason why Kano state is not been heard like other state is that they don't care.

the population is quite large. I just confirmed the 1.9 million vote brought by Kano state in the last presidential election. infact by 2019, Kano will produce 2.5 million votes. they are too many persons in Kano. too many.

Let's continue, am sorry, I have been very busy preparing for lectures and tackling other questions from a college of education close to us.

When we settled down in the lodge given to us, the first thing I noticed was that the batch corps members in the lodge shared the ladies among themselves, they would kiss each other, lie on top of each other, hug and press each other in the open. Nothing was hidden, Infact we already heard rumours that the Hausa man that owns the house said we will pack out come August because of the sexual activities he heard happening in his house. so the whole thing became so obvious to us, we didn't have to blame the man again, though we don't support his intention but the sexual deeds is becoming so obvious.

This ladies have their room, why not go inside and do whatever you want to do. We marked the faces of all of them. That Friday, by 6p.m, it was time for Muslim prayers and we saw the same sisters dressed up in their hijab ready for prayers. we all got hope that the hijab and the whole covering was nothing, we can still penetrate the Hausa ladies, it's still possible for us to date them.

Most people among us were already sex starved after 16 days in the camp, so seeing the ladies all covered made us become pessimistic in terms of relating with them.

With what happened in our lodge, we knew it was still possible to mingle with them.

One day, I lost my way inside a keke napep, I was d only one in d vehicle, he can't hear English, I can't speak Hausa, so if I call the nearest filling station, he will nod his heard in affirmative yet he will drive to the nearest police station. I was lost in the city of Kano. suddenly he picked one lady, a very young girl, tall and perhaps "may" be beautiful, as usual, if a lady enters the same car or keke with you, you will adjust such that your body won't touch hers for any reason, so I adjusted.

Having lost my way, I asked her in English," do you hear and speak English?" she answered "No, I don't ", so it became evident that she does, I told her the problem i am into with the driver, I also told her where I was going to. she spoke to the driver in Hausa language and luckily enough we were going towards the same way. so I initiated a conversation. I asked her "yaya sunanki"(what is your name), she answered. I told her am a Corper and that am new to Kano, I don't even know how to speak Hausa, save the greetings only, she told me that she is volunteering to teach me Hausa, which was very kind of her. I was happy that Atleast I have gotten a Muslim female friend, but the one million dollar question is "do you know her? " .

she covered every part of her body, including her nose. the only thing I can see is her eyes, she is single because I asked her, she isn't even engaged, yet she covered like a masquerade. one part of my mind told me to collect her number, but if I do, how do I recognize her next time, do I even know the person I was talking to? all this things tan through my mind.

When I alighted, she told me she is paying for my transport, I thanked her in Hausa. but to collect her number, I refused, I was afraid, she could be someone's wife, she could be a temptation, it may be a future trap. so I decided to let her go. that was my first experience with a Muslim girl.

but something very interesting happened later that day. I have gotten a place of primary assignment, a polytechnic, but they don't pay Corpers so we were looking for a place of secondary assignment, yet we have gotten a place of tertiary assignment, a college of education very close to our lodge.

often time we go there to make friends, yet to look out for a female friends and to watch ball. that evening we were two that went to the school, and we met them in their large quantity, what happened that evening is what you won't like to hear. this Hausa ladies are very hard, they hardly stop for you to talk to them do we decided to go for the non Hausa girls. we identify them by their hair. if you don't cover your hair them you are not a Muslim, this rule only happens inside school and nowhere else save sabongari.

That evening, I met one girl!!! The way and manner I met her is my business? or should I tell you?

Onyiibazz:
My guy!

Onyi Bazz, very soon you will experience same

Life in Kano is not social at all, Atleast I was posted to an institution, I live very close to a college of education and a university, so I can say authoritatively the social life obtainable in Kano state. The guys are Jew guys, infact they are Jewish council of elders. I and my colleague once visited an inauguration party, there we met something that shocked us. We were expecting to see students kind of social life, lo and behold, we met a gay party, a party with only three girls dancing, with over 400 sex activists and sex starved guys wanting to dance with them, of a truth it was a gay party. I have never seen a collection of fine ladies like I saw and see in Kano state. Infact, I must say that Hausa girls are too pretty. I try to avoid my students because I don't want to enter Hausa man wahala. I learnt that they are too jealous of their wife and daughters, we were warned seriously in camp to avoid Hausa girls but who can avoid those pretty girls. Seeing them alone gives me joy. You don't touch them at all, you don't shake them too, infact one that I met in a college of education told me that it is wrong for her to be talking to me outside. I thought they are all virgins but I found out where and how they do their bad things.

to be continued tomorrow

osytex:
Army barracks.. what platoon were you in??

platoon one

Dreamcome2ru:
@mrphysics,i will suggest you write on headings,like:
Social life
Weather
Foods
Beliefs
Communication
Job opportunities
Place of PPA
And a lot that you can think of
And maybe 3 posts per day,just to create traffic and for viewers to stay glue to the thread.

Okay sir, that's the purpose of the thread.

osytex:
looolzz.. nice one, bro.. why didn't we hook up in camp?
Osytex, Overall parade commander

Parade shun, I was among those you commanded during our POP. where is your PPA

one thing I noticed is that a great number of people do not speak English, I have met with the big and small ones, many of them don't speak or understand English and as such communication was and is a barrier. I have seen keke napep carry me round Kano state because he didn't understand and I don't know my way. I have seen restaurant people serve me wrong food due to language barrier. I have told my H.O.D that there is no how they will continue to speak Hausa to this students in school and expect them to be perfect in English. my class rep have sent me funny messages with wrong written basic English, I would have loved to post a snapshot of it but for security reasons no.

A student have written on top of his scrip "Sir, your are not registration number sir", meaning," I don't have registration number sir". Other funny messages I have read and have in my phone is ones that read: "please sir, we don't have free tomorrow. sir, my ba3 is dangerous. OK sir, thank" etc.

indeed language have been a barrier. we must have issues when we want to buy something. when we want them to help us at the borehole, etc. they are deeply engrossed in Hausa speaking. They are comfortable with it.

I imagined how life in a high institution is, I have been through one. I also imagined how to deal and relate with females in dire need of go. what of those that will want to sort me, what of those stubborn guys, little did I know that education in Kano is different from what is obtainable anywhere in the world. I recently realised the type of life they lead in Kano state, it seems all my imagination is going to be in vain.


We were sent to the high institution corpers lodge, unlikely/luckily to us there is another college of institution close to our lodge. My colleagues were happy, they were about to be a sexual activists …, the accommodation wasn't too good nor too bad. we met with batch B corpers, they actually welcomed us with a fight between themselves. what led to it is a topic for another day.

I want to point out that things are not cheap in Kano state as people thought, only two things are cheap here: bread and onions. other things are costly. Light is also a problem and heat here is too much. I bath 4 to 5 times a day and my soap finishes every 3 days. I will relate them to other things very shortly.

should I continue

Karaye camp situated close to kusaladam in Kano state is so far one of the best orientation camp in Nigeria. life as a corp member in karaye camp is cool. no much stress, the soldiers are very friendly, we weren't punished at all. No much parade, we have our daily siesta and we wake up everyday by 5 a.m. Kudos to the nysc staff in Kano state.

one major thing a greater number of corps members are interested in when they are in camp is their place of primary assignment, most ladies give themselves to the soldiers in lieu of a better PPA. In Kano state, it was very fair, those that worked it didn't succeed except for the very "longed legged ladies" and highly connected guys. on the average it was generally free and fair. when I saw mine, I was very happy, I was posted to a higher institution in Kano state(Names withheld for security reasons) . that is how life began in Kano state.

We reached ifeanyichukwu park Kano state by 7:00 a.m on Tuesday, running close to 15hours. the park is situated at sabongari in fagge local government. I must state that this sabongari has the highest population of igbos, in fact, an igbo man is the local government chairman of fagge local government Kano state. it was shocking to see an igbo man heading a local government in Kano.

Sabongari doesn't look like Kano state, all clubs, hotels, brothels, beer parlor in Kano state has it's headquarter located in Sabongari. Infact you can't buy alcohol in anywhere save sabongari. it is also had to see a church in Kano state except in sabongari.

Sabongari is very safe, more secured that any other part of Kano state. if there is any war in Kano state, the first place the military will protect is sabongari. You will hardly believe you are in Kano state if you visit sabongari. it is in sabongari that a lady can walk without wearing hijab of covering her head. it is in sabongari that you can hold or shake a lady. Sabongari looks exactly like Enugu state.

please you will have to ignore my short hand notation and any error or mistake in words.

Everything you are about to read is my OWN personal experience and as such should be treated so

After my friend called me to break the news of my posting, Sleep left my eyes. it was past 11p.m, Nysc site was congested that we were able to pull through by 11p.m. oh God, why KANO STATE, what have I done.

Just like Job said in Job, "what i feared most have come upon me". I never wanted to serve in Kano state or any northern state even Abuja.

so I started preparing, I picked a ticket going to Kano state. before then I have read many articles and write up on Kano state, surely, it wasn't enough.

By 5:15 p.m we left ifeanyichukwu park Enugu state enroute Kano state, it was my first visit to a core Muslim state, I was for the next one year of my life to live with Muslims, the thought of Boko Haram, security, language problem etc filled my mind as we journey to the pregnant state. I wasn't comfortable, I had a mixed filling about Kano state. so we ran through the night. one thing I noticed as we entered Kano state is that day breaks by 5:30 everyday. once it is 5:30 a.m, everywhere is clear in Kano state, another interesting thing is that the sun rises by 6-6:15 a.m everyday and sets 6:30p.m reaching to a maximum temperature of 43.5 degree Celsius.

Maufey:
Please whre are you serving and what is the current state of things?

Kano

greatfoly:
What's LI and which clearance?

LI = Local government inspector, He/she is responsible for all the corps members posted to her local government.

Clearance is what shows that you have done your duty at your place of primary assignment and as such, you are due for payment of the coming month. if you don't do your monthly clearance then no salary for you. thank u