Okada drop me here .
I am going go share with you guys my journey thus far as a PCM at Yikpata camp in Kwara State.
My journey began on the 27/03/19 being Wednesday. We booked a bus straight from Oshodi to Yikpata for 3,500naira and we were 14 in number.
When I told people that I was posted to Kwara, they said no be Kwara were dey Lagos backyard. Those people really missed the point oh. I spent 9 good hours on transit to camp, my yansh was in Sifia pains.
Got to camp around 7pm and started registration same day.
You queue before getting on the queue, it was stressful exercise. At 9pm, the officials told us to return today being Thursday to continue the process after wasting 2hours doing nothing chai. I was pained.

IF IT AIN'T STRESSFUL, IT AIN'T NIGERIAN
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After the whole wahala of yesterday, I couldn't bathe at night because no water and I was told that water was sold at #50naira per bucket. I thought it was a joke until i woke up today by 2am to bathe.
The crowd I met no be here oh, I was number 200 on the line. Within 5mins, the line was more than 500.
I waited patiently for another hour or so before it got to my turn. The moment I paid and left, the water finished.
I just thanked my ancestors and left for the hostel.
On getting there, I asked where the bathroom is, they laughed me no be small. I later realized bathing and shitting was done in the open. As for the shitting, you use shit and dodge technique.
I had my bathe sharp while economizing water and sold the water left to the highest bidder for #30.
By the way the room was a mini-oven. I swear the heat emanating from there can bake bread no joke. I kuku brought out my bed to the balcony why hugging my phone tight like my wife to avoid stories.
The most valuable thing is this camp isn't your money, phone or other gadget but your water..
A guy dropped his water to get towel only to return and met empty bucket. The guy curse, swear and all sort to no avail. The thief no send am oh. I kan dey pity the guy sef because he was the number 15 on the line despite paying money for the water, now water has finished.
Let me return to sleep, I have registration slated for 7am. I hope see una later.
Adios

Welcome to Kwara State - THE STATE OF HARMONY

ariyebaba:
Welcome to Kwara State - THE STATE OF HARMONY

Thanks �. I hope I would enjoy my time here

Ops..I apologies for the break in transmission.
When I thought I should sleep, the next thing I heard was whistle from the soldiers calling us for morning meditation. I ignored after all I haven't finished registration. Just when I was about to drift to sleep, I just heard wire wire (noise accompanying a koboko whip) with the soldier asking the badly flogged guy, are you trying to be slow? The guy responded, who am I to be slow quite hilarious but it the guys was in Sifia pains o.

On arrival to the parade ground, we were joined randomly to the pre existing platoons. I joined platoon 5 for the time being. After briefing us on the basic movements like parade(pronounced pre), attention (pronounced shun), stand at ease and stand easy. I was thinking it was going to be a quick parade, chai how wrong I was. We spent another 4 hours there with serious drilling. If you be ajebutter, please prepare well oh. Those soldiers don't care if your father is the president, once you are in the parade ground alias their holy Land, they have right to do anything they deem fit to you.
It was a sweet bitter experience because one soldier named Adamu made us laugh till we forgot our pain.
I remember him saying if you no say you be water bottle no let me see you for back oh. On another occasion when singing the national AND NYSC anthem, a girl was singing with her two hands holding her ears In a DJ like manner, the next thing I heard was shey you think say na studio you dey abi, see her head like water melon, those statements really cracked the hell out of us.
By the way, to charge phone here is #50/charging, to fetch water for bathing costs same if you are unlucky to get the limited water. Food here is just average with a plate of any kind of food going for #300 with one pure water.
The most frustrating thing here is the heat, any water bought and left in the open under 10minutes can be used to make eba no joke. The Sun here has zero chills, despite the Insulator called boots with socks on your legs, your legs still hurts just after standing in the sun under 2hours. I just discovered the camp is close to Jebba in Niger state hence the desert like life.
I would try and get more pictures for your own view. For now, I need to prepare for morning meditation it would soon be 5:30am

Well done OP. God bless and keep you there. Amen

nnamdiosu:
Well done OP. God bless and keep you there. Amen

Thanks for dropping by

Apologies for posting late. Charging my phone was damn hectic.
Back to the gist. We finally got paid our bicycle allowance of #1800 today which was promised. The money came at the right time because I was running low and cash and the no ATM here to withdraw except for those POS guys that charge 7% on every withdrawal.
The food thus far has been fair, although a beggar has no choice. I am no OBO to eat from Maami market everytime. I just buy my necessities.
I finally found a camo crush, she happens to be a private in the military. She is a black, slim and beautiful lady, my spec.
I made my feeling known to her to my dismay, she didn't react the way I expected because I thought he was going to punish me for Dearing to chyke her. She just laughed and said those words that scattered my feelings, "I am a married woman with 5 kids" I shock and after a back and forth discussion, I discovered she last saw her family last 2 years. The only means of conversation is via phone. Immediately, I picked interest and we gisted for a long time. She even invited me to her base for more discuss and she offered me Chow which I gladly accepted.
I just found myself a first female military friend

The NYSC camp has been a bitter sweet experience, it was made interesting by my new found friends here and bitter by the hectic drillings and innumerable boring lectures.
Every morning at exactly 6am, the Nigerian flag is flown at full mast and at exactly 6pm, it is lowered down. I can't really explain a reason for this just my observation anyways.
Yikpata would be a very good location for installing a Solar power source as alternative to the hydro system we currently use now.
The temperature here can rise to as much as 45°C during the day which assuming we have say 20acres just mounted with solar panels, would go a long way in reducing the epileptic power supply we presently face here in Nigeria. I believe this project is actually feasible.
I am presently at the welcome party and I seriously uninterested in it, I am an introvert and I must confess I have lost lots of energy for the past few days.
I have nothing against party but they aren't just my thing.
I got picked as the captain for my platoon in the football competition. Training starts tommorow and I hope to guide my team to victory, it ain't going to be easy but I strongly believe it is possible..

calculator123:
Apologies for posting late. Charging my phone was damn hectic.
Back to the gist. We finally got paid our bicycle allowance of #1800 today which was promised. The money came at the right time because I was running low and cash and the no ATM here to withdraw except for those POS guys that charge 7% on every withdrawal.
The food thus far has been fair, although a beggar has no choice. I am no OBO to eat from Maami market everytime. I just buy my necessities.
I finally found a camo crush, she happens to be a private in the military. She is a black, slim and beautiful lady, my spec.
I made my feeling known to her to my dismay, she didn't react the way I expected because I thought he was going to punish me for Dearing to chyke her. She just laughed and said those words that scattered my feelings, "I am a married woman with 5 kids" I shock and after a back and forth discussion, I discovered she last saw her family last 2 years. The only means of conversation is via phone. Immediately, I picked interest and we gisted for a long time. She even invited me to her base for more discuss and she offered me Chow which I gladly accepted.
I just found myself a first female military friend

Easy with d female military friend ooo..

LordScent:





Easy with d female military friend ooo..

Lol bro, she Is a married woman oh. I gat thread with care

calculator123:

Lol bro, she Is a married woman oh. I gat thread with care

Better oooo

ride on op

op is on point, currently in yikpata camp too. Since i arrived i havent bathed with cold water, the sun is crazy. You spend at least 3 to 4 hundred daily on drinking water

efec:
op is on point, currently in yikpata camp too. Since i arrived i havent bathed with cold water, the sun is crazy. You spend at least 3 to 4 hundred daily on drinking water

Lol...the weather must be really hot

Nice thread Op. My camp experience was in FCT and it wasn't bad in all honesty. The hostels were new/renovated and water was never a problem in the whole camp. The hostels had wall sockets at almost every bedspace (except in female hostels that had theirs removed). Parades were a must but because I was a medic, I spent those times in camp clinic. I only attended parades to socialise with my platoon peeps and any other time clinic was boring. It was an interesting experience; Camp that I said I was going to leave after the few days of registration, but the fun made me stay the whole 3 weeks (bar the 3 days I went home to rest cos I was down with a flu). It was a good blend of fun and occasional stress. I'm still serving though.

Sorry if I may have derailed your thread, wanted to share my little experience though. I'm enjoying your thread, please keep it up.

KingMEXX:
Nice thread Op. My camp experience was in FCT and it wasn't bad in all honesty. The hostels were new/renovated and water was never a problem in the whole camp. The hostels had wall sockets at almost every bedspace (except in female hostels that had theirs removed). Parades were a must but because I was a medic, I spent those times in camp clinic. I only attended parades to socialise with my platoon peeps and any other time clinic was boring. It was an interesting experience; Camp that I said I was going to leave after the few days of registration, but the fun made me stay the whole 3 weeks (bar the 3 days I went home to rest cos I was down with a flu). It was a good blend of fun and occasional stress. I'm still serving though.

Sorry if I may have derailed your thread, wanted to share my little experience though. I'm enjoying your thread, please keep it up.

Nice

Op and others just try make dem post you to ilorin ooo....seems u re an engineering guy. You talking about solar panel..
Nice see u wen you come out of ur 21days prison. Ilorin west, ilorin south both re d best lga

pray they don't post you to patigi, baritone, Kaiama and edu because if they do, forget about going home until after service

jimmyroger:
Op and others just try make dem post you to ilorin ooo....seems u re an engineering guy. You talking about solar panel..
Nice see u wen you come out of ur 21days prison. Ilorin west, ilorin south both re d best lga

Baba na Mathematician & Statistician, but has a flare for software engineering

Abi I dey lie calculator

nelkon9999:
pray they don't post you to patigi, baritone, Kaiama and edu because if they do, forget about going home until after service

why bro?

So no f.uck things... Sad

efec:
op is on point, currently in yikpata camp too. Since i arrived i havent bathed with cold water, the sun is crazy. You spend at least 3 to 4 hundred daily on drinking water

Bro how far cehck your pm.

KingMEXX:
Nice thread Op. My camp experience was in FCT and it wasn't bad in all honesty. The hostels were new/renovated and water was never a problem in the whole camp. The hostels had wall sockets at almost every bedspace (except in female hostels that had theirs removed). Parades were a must but because I was a medic, I spent those times in camp clinic. I only attended parades to socialise with my platoon peeps and any other time clinic was boring. It was an interesting experience; Camp that I said I was going to leave after the few days of registration, but the fun made me stay the whole 3 weeks (bar the 3 days I went home to rest cos I was down with a flu). It was a good blend of fun and occasional stress. I'm still serving though.

Sorry if I may have derailed your thread, wanted to share my little experience though. I'm enjoying your thread, please keep it up.

No problem bro. I actually enjoyed reading your experience. Thanks for stopping by

Olalekank:


Baba na Mathematician & Statistician, but has a flare for software engineering

Abi I dey lie calculator

True talk bro. I am an all round scientist

Starboytwo:
So no f.uck things... Sad

Lol

Ok guys. Sorry for the delays in posting, camp has been stressful.
I went babe hunting yesterday and I made it a point of duty to talk to 5girls and get at least 3phone numbers.
I actually have this affinity for Alhajas especially the ones from the north. I met a beautiful girl by name Hauwa from Niger state. This girl fine die. For now i still dey water ground before food done lol.
The reason why I gave myself that task is because i have issues talking with girls not because I am scared but simply because I am just uninterested.
Carrying out the task was tasking at first since it was something I wasn't used too but after the first day, it became easier even though I still develop cold feet from time to time.
Today was my convocation day and I was avoidably absent. I had a chance of returning back to school but declined because of the financial and physical stress involved. I wish the 2017/18 set a prosperous future ahead.
You know, I was actually thinking about redeploying to Lagos since that was where I was born and brought up. However, I wanted to experience life from the usual hustle and bustle of Lagos. I wanted to see how different people lived life. The most important reason is that I didn't qualify for the redeployment by NYSC rules which states that one can only redeploy based on marriage(mostly for the women) and health issues. I am not married so do not satisfy the first condition and for condition two, people are telling me to runs it with money but then what manner of sickness do I want to lie about and knowing that we would be tested for those said sickness in the medical report. This is kind of ironic because earlier we submitted medical fitness report so how come the medical report?
Nigeria is just country where anything and everything goes with the right amount of connect and money. It is really sad seeing people who are hale and hearthh lie just to redeploy.
Enough said. I have an appointment with Deborah my NYSC Benue babe this evening. Catch you guys later

calculator123:
Ok guys. Sorry for the delays in posting, camp has been stressful.
I went babe hunting yesterday and I made it a point of duty to talk to 5girls and get at least 3phone numbers.

Enough said. I have an appointment with Deborah my NYSC Benue babe this evening. Catch you guys later

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