₦airaland Forum

Every time I read that some Nigerians are still doing certain things which I consider to be fool!sh, my heart bleeds. I mean, we are all Nigerians and we were all born here, yet we still behave as though we don't understand the country.

How long for God's sake will it take an average Nigerian to understand their country and adjust accordingly?

So, here we go.

1. So-called graduates traveling long distance for NYSC.

I mean, this is the most painful of all. These are people you'll assume are knowledgeable because they've spent some years in the university. However, many of these guys have learnt nothing.

How can you come from the South, especially, SS/SE and you print your call-up letter, and it shows somewhere in the North, then you begin to park your things and journey to the North in today's Nigeria in the name of NYSC? You must be mad. You've learnt nothing being a Nigerian since birth. Your parents probably have learnt nothing too because they are supposed to stop you from embarking on such a near-suicide mission.

First, there's no one Nigeria and you are not going to enjoy your stay as a Southerner in the North. You won't be loved. Up there, they bundle SS and SE together, because they are all Christians and share similar faces. Pray they don't look for a way to start their religious trouble, else you are gone. So many corpers from the South have lost their lives because of religious violence in the North.

Again, traveling from SS to the North is like journeying through the wilderness. You'll have to pray against kidnappers in the SS, unknown gunmen in the SE, armed robbers as you journey through SW, herdsmen as you cross Abuja, herdsmen again and Boko Haram as you journey through the North to your PPA. If from the SE, you still face similar risks.

All of these for a national service that guarantees nothing after 12 months; a national service that has no depth. Everyday in the camp is parade, SAED, and other fool!sh things. Shortly you leave the camp, then it's teaching JS1 to SS3 students in a private secondary school in exchange for 5k naira monthly. Many private school owners are totally depending on this cheap labor provided by corpers. Good luck to them. Who wouldn't want to take advantage? Some would even want to select corpers based on gender. I still remember going to a school and the school owner insisted on only male corpers. Meanwhile, she's a female. These are the people that makes the most profit from the NYSC.

That's by the way. Now, if you are from the SS/SE and you are posted to the North, you should turn it down. You may just be embarking on a journey of no return because of a so-called national service. Right now, I don't know if the prospective corpers from Akwa Ibom kidnapped by herdsmen on their way to the North have been released. I doubt. Sadly, kidnapping is a normal thing there so the FG is probably seeing it as one of those daily northern thing.

2. Night travel in Nigeria.

Here's another one the dummies of Nigeria keep doing. They pretend as though everywhere is cool or they are untouchable. As rife as insecurity is in Nigeria, you'll still see people jumping into a vehicle in the name of night journey. It appears dogs gave birth to these set of people because they got no brains. There's absolutely no justification for embarking on a night journey in Nigeria. This is a country that's fill with thorns.

Even during the day, it's hard to identify who's a Police or criminal on the road, yet you mount up on the same road at night. Are you okay? Don't just complain about transport fares because you know you can still pay for the trip during the day, which may not still be safe but at least manageable.

3. Rallying around and voting useless politicians during elections, then expecting positive change.

The state of this nation today is as a result of many Nigerians continually voting useless people into leadership positions. For some of us, when we put 8 years of Buhari and another 8 years of Tinubu, we'll be losing 16 years of our life achieving nothing. Even Jonathan's tenure was still rubbbish and that's like 22 years.

At the state and other federal political positions, the story is the same. We still keep voting useless people to represent us. How long are we going to continue this way?

I'll be back...

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samuelson06:
Shortly you leave the camp, then it's teaching JS1 to SS3 students in a private secondary school in exchange for 5k naira monthly. Many private school owners are totally depending on this cheap labor provided by corpers. Good luck to them. Who wouldn't want to take advantage? Some would even want to select corpers based on gender. I still remember going to a school and the school owner insisted on only male corpers. Meanwhile, she's a female. These are the people that makes the most profit from the NYSC.

NYSC is alimanjeri for graduates.

It exploits graduates by deflating wages ensuring teachers lack experience so we can be exploited even more!

I want NYSC banned!

COME BACK SOON.

budaatum:
NYSC is alimanjeri for graduates.

It exploits graduates by deflating wages ensuring teachers lack experience so we can be exploited even more!

I want NYSC banned!

Seems you don't know NYSC certificate is a prerequisite for employment abi
You think people that school abroad and come to serve don't know what they are doing?
The scheme isn't perfect
But its far more beneficial than you think....I'm sorry if your experience was bad but Most people actually do enjoy their service year.
And that stipend was what some people saved up and started life with especially those from less privileged background

Besides it's national Service going through it gives you a sense of satisfaction and improves your perspective of life .

NYSC IS HERE TO STAY but can do with some modifications

I don't know their beef with the. N. Y. S. C scheme. The rot in the scheme is a symptom of a wilder rot in. Nigeria. There is no security in naija how do you expect nysc to be safe. Saying people died from long distance travelling. Lol. Some one can die moving from ones room to the toilet. So what the fuss. Na only. God dey protect us. I really enjoye my own service wish i can go again

Rolings:
Seems you don't know NYSC certificate is a prerequisite for employment abi
You think people that school abroad and come to serve don't know what they are doing?
The scheme isn't perfect
But its far more beneficial than you think....I'm sorry if your experience was bad but Most people actually do enjoy their service year.
And that stipend was what some people saved up and started life with especially those from less privileged background

Besides it's national Service going through it gives you a sense of satisfaction and improves your perspective of life .

NYSC IS HERE TO STAY but can do with some modifications

Rolings:
Seems you don't know NYSC certificate is a prerequisite for employment abi.

Why would I want NYSC banned if it were not a prerequisite?

Is my advocation for a ban not so it becomes non-prerequisite?

Sadly, it is destroying employment in Nigeria, despite the enjoyment and the pittiable pittance they pay for it.

A company hiring corpers will get a fresh hoard of cheap labour every year that they don't need to train because they won't retain them, and that company loses knowledge and expertise in the long term, while the corper is sentisized to pittance as their worth in jobs that know not how to do. The combination of these two things suppresses wages while the cost of living grows.

And yes many do enjoy it. I rent rooms to them in the Orolu Kingdom. It's a nice place with water, but they hate my one rule. You can not bring school students into my yard. Apparently, those 14-15 year olds are meant to be "fringe benefits". I make them enjoy other things or go find somewhere else to live.

But that's by the by. The Orolu Kingdom has not had teachers in like 3 years because of war with the neighbours and war between APC and PDP that shut the local government down. Kind of puts NYSC on the very back burner.