Monday, September 17, 2018
National Youth Service Corps Memory Lane
What is your most memorable, special or unusual NYSC experience you had during your service year?
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I was an executive corp member. Those who served in Abuja may relate. I can count the days I spent the night in camp. Even that Man o war obstacles, I didn't climb.
ReplyDeleteLooking 🔙, I kinda miss all that. But then, It felt great avoiding them.
It was so much fun for me that year. People tried to scare and discourage me. They said I’ll suffer, it’ll be too stressful, I wouldn’t be able to cope etc. because I came back from UK to serve after 10years of being away. It made me more determined to do it and prove everybody wrong. Spent the first night sleeping on bunkbeds in the corridor with 5 other strangers because we didn’t get allocated a room. Thank God for mosquito net. Some “executive” Corp members like queen jay got discovered and I was given the bunk one of them claimed but didn’t use because she wasn’t in camp. My roommates were hilarious. Different characters, personalities and personas. Some couldn’t stand one another but I got along with everyone. I was still getting used to naija music then but I immediately fell in love with Olu Maintain’s music when he gave us a surprise concert!!😃 See people running down from mammy market as if the world was coming to an end. A girl was pulled on stage to dance with Olu but she refused to go back after that particularly song ended 😂😂😂. There was almost a riot in camp when the head commandant or someone like that made a comment that some people took to mean foreign students were better than domestic students but that wasn’t what he meant. He just didn’t express himself well. He later rephrased it but peeps were not accepting. Corpers started verbally insulting the JJC corpers as if they were the ones who made the statement. The entire camp was then told to kneel down, if I remember correctly. Hmmm, drama!! I marched, did drama and played a bit of volleyball. Everything was an excuse to dance; if your platoon wins, they’ll play music and dance. If they lose too, they’ll still play music and dance! I made a lot of friends there and still in touch with some till today. I toughed it out and had mad fun while at it. And the naysayers kept quiet last last. I was in Lagos camp!! Who else was there that year? And who remembers the different bruhahas? Because there were a few. Memories 😁
DeleteI didn't serve...
ReplyDeleteI served in d north
DeleteMehnnnn...God knows I over enjoyed my service yr.
Overall not made me enjoy my service yr was cos of d friends I made...after 6yrs, we still friends😊 wot more can I ask for?
Our clubbing story no be here😂😂😂
PS: the northerners are DERN hypocrites!
My own was snapping in that mapo local government building . I served in that local government. And everytime I snap n post my pics online people will be asking me whether I travelled out. Kia ehhh if it now ehhh that I was serving. We snap sotey ehhh. And we had nothing doing at work so our own was to snap till we go back home.
ReplyDeleteI met my hubby during service year. Different platoons but he coached us during volleyball. Fate posted us to the same school and from their our love story began. We've been married for 6 years now and are blessed with two lovely kids.
ReplyDeleteNYSC is a year I'll never forget.
Nice one.
DeleteI miss Mammy o. Especially @Shakushaku joint Lol
ReplyDeleteServed in the core north. Imagine being in a bank and asking someone to give you the pen you could see in his breast pocked so that you could sign. He blinks disdainfully and puts it in his deep pocket. You are going out from your lodge and flag at "achaba" (the cyclist we usually call okada in the south), he blinks disdainfully and proceeds. After about a pole in front of you, he stops without being signaled for his own towns people who tells him they weren't going. You attend the same mosque with them, but during an ethnic riot, it was "announced in the mosques" that all "foreigners" should be slaughtered next day but you did not know (though you could understand Hausa). The next day, you were running for your life even as your fellow "muslims" are looking for you to slaughter just because you are not Hausa/Fulani.
ReplyDeleteThat in a nutshell was my experience. Nigeria is so clouded in Ethnic hatred and I saw it rife in the north. You went to the market and the girls you teach came around to greet their "teacher". As you walk a few steps, men are pulling their ears for daring to greet a stranger; men unrelated to them!
Oh please. Practice what you preach. This your narrative reeks of intolerance and hatred too. Why? So there was nothing positive throughout your stay on the north? Where are you from and how good do your people treat corp members? I mean it takes one to know one right? Meet other Nigerians and they'll tell you tales of how good "northerners" were to them.
DeleteKpele oh.
What on this earth did I just read? This is beyond me
DeleteBiko which state and town is this? Help someone's child in case tomorrow he/she could be posted there so they can know how to redeploy.
DeleteHmmm
DeleteThis one weak me.
@Deeza
DeleteYou comment reeks of intolerance. Stella did not tell us to share only "good experiences". If you had it good, others might have had it bad. Allow them to vent their sorrows too. This comment section has never bee full. There is room for everybody.
Yen yen yen. Don't copy my words and come out of your anonymous state let's talk. Does ethnicism and religious intolerance only exist in the north? I bet its your type that believes everyone in the north is a Muslim,Hausa or Fulani. The comment I criticized leans towards that belief.
DeleteWe are all Nigerians,stop lumping everyone in stereotypes.
Deeza, you have comprehension problems.
DeleteWhere in Anon's narrative was intolerance and hatred for the northerners implied?
He/She had it bad there and is sharing the experience.
All Nigerian tribes have both the good and bad.
People like you are quick to jump into useless conclusions.
Service year was the bomb. Had so much fun.brb for the epistle
ReplyDeleteI met d love of my life😍😍
ReplyDeleteHope say you no fork the fork of ya life?
DeleteI miss everything about NYSC. Every moment was memorable. I miss the favour I get whenever I'm in my uniform(free ride,free money) I miss my friends(WhatsApp friendship ti take over). FCT(kubwa) camp was too sweet. My PPA was the best.
ReplyDeleteyay me too,I even stayed 2 more years before traveling out to go be with hubby.very memorable experience
DeleteOh my NYSC days!
ReplyDeletePlenty Tombola nights and parties at the Officer's mess.
The draining sport activities every Tuesdays and Thursdays' afternoons under that hot Sokoto sun. I stopped going and was named "a lazy cofa".
Those officers do get their parades at these two events.
Oh! Kasua baban, that very big market. I can't count the number of times I got lost in that market. I will enter through the main gate and see myself coming out through another gate; the kaasua naama (meat market). I made new families during my service year.
The best friend I have today i met her in camp. We both played volley ball together in camp, posted to same lga. We travelled oo, every weekend there must be hangout. if none we bring it to her apartment nd she cooks so well.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed my Nysc from camp to the very last day I left. I had nysc boyfriend chai the guy wanted more but I ended it after service. Our sex life was spontaneous, so much passion, if only sex can build a solid relationship I for die there. We just were so sexually compatible.
My roomie was a nightmare. I didn't stay with my besty cos her ppa was far from mine.
What else...
We were the cool corpers everyone wants to roll with both in camp and the proper service. It was funnnnn.
It was fornication you mean?
DeleteI served in one of the states in the north central,I am health personnel so I was at the clinic all through.I met one fine Akwa ibom guy and we gbenshed during night calls in the clinic,like thrice..it was the best..He redeployed after camp though beht I can never forget the sex,it was something else.
ReplyDeleteBaddest gbensher
DeleteI remember Sokoto everyday, to think I never wanted to go there!
ReplyDeleteI was on the state capital and so I didn't have any negative experience religion wise or from the locals.
The two things that shocked me were:
1.The attitude the students have towards education. They practically act like they are being forced to go to school. I also saw people coming to school barefooted. Don't blame me though, never saw it with my eyes till I got there.
2. During the elections, I was the Presiding officer and the assistants I had didn't want to take orders from me because I was a female. I had to change it for them😂😂😂.
I enjoyed my stay, I created my own fun and moved with the right crowd. I miss Sokoto but I've been told not to go back so I don't spoil whatever memories I have of the state.
My Nysc experience was cool..served in my comfort zone and did things my way.
ReplyDeleteLagos camp was so fun..you can only see me at night in mammy market..all those early morning activities wasn't for me.
Met amazing friends sha,mostly people I met in my PPA
It didn't even feel like i was serving cos I didn't have to stress myself over anything.
Still typing my service year bruhaha o. I must do POP before sending it in... patience is a virtue
ReplyDeleteI served in Kwara State.
ReplyDeleteHad a beautiful time there. Was called 'Igbo coper' I was also fortunate to always have free fare.
Was doted on by my Director in the Ministry then, Hajia.
I learnt that being good or bad have nothing to do with tribe or religion, it is an individual thing.
Had so many suitors there lol, but I politely declined.
Still in contact with my Director and some other friends from Kwara.
Though we usually see once a year during NBA conference.
Looking forward to visiting Kwara after 7years post NYSC.
I was the commandant of platoon 11 and chairperson platoon 5 supporters club. If you know you know
ReplyDeleteStill serving tho in ghost mood. I cannot comman die Biko.
ReplyDeleteMy PPA is the bestest! The Director Pampers us. Do as you like. Come when your head is not correct 😂
I enjoyed my NYSC experience. I made a cute friend who later became a live in lover...The Sex was the Bomb, after about 3 months with my new catch her friend got jealous of the attention I was showing on my babe and asked to be closer than usual and ass a sharful giver that I am I OBLIGED HER😆
ReplyDeleteKAI all I remember about NYSC is the Bomb free sex I had all year,beautiful memories 😉😉😉😉
LEP😛
Awesome Experiences
ReplyDeleteI'll still go for my service hopefully after the General Elections next year...
I guess it was the Endurance trek.
ReplyDeleteThat was my opportunity to meet most of the Corpers because most of the time I was ill and regular patient to Camp Clinic or you find me at Mami Market dinning and wining...lol
I got the shock of my life wen i found out i was posted to kogi state after payin 25k to work it to any state in d west. I could av jejely kept my money if i knew it wont work.then a month after being posted to my ppa, a prison break happened dere. My lodge was a stone's throw from the prison. See all of us corpers running in the middle of d night to God knows where. We heard rumours it was boko haram dat invaded d prison as d dynamites used in breakin d prison walls sounded like bomb...i was running endlessly in d dark while saying my last prayers. It wasnt funny abeg
ReplyDeletechai, I can imagine. Sorry.
DeleteBeautiful memories
ReplyDeleteI served in Rivers state.. 5days into my PPA I won a refrigerator, I served in a gym.
I was opportune to meet with senators, reps, special adviser to governor, managing directors, top politicians etc...
The least I get per day is 5k aside my 19800 allowee and 15k monthly salary, I made money..
Anyway am back in lagos doing my business....
ABeg make una ignore my blunder
Orientation camp was in karaye Kano.
DeleteHad a fake marriage certificate and pregnancy report just so I could be redeployed.
Chai karaye was so much fun for me oo...I was a princess in camp😂😂😂😂 I had d soldiers at my beck n call.
DeleteWen people are going to match, that's wen I'm going to eat at mammy😂😂😂😂
Oh...how I miss DAT place
The principal in the school I did my PPA made life difficult(Rumeme girls, PH). I did Engineering and their telling me to teach English when I don’t even know English. Your hair must be black, cloths shouldn’t be shady and far below the knee, my nail colours didn’t give her peace, we were made to go to school on cds days sometimes. We have to beg her before she signs our clearance form every month and refuse giving anyone final clearance. She made her self a god. The woman was just too mean. My only consolation is PH bole and fish.
ReplyDeleteI served in Ughelli, Delta State.
ReplyDeleteThe students were Unruly but intelligent too. It was fun teaching and mentoring them.
Only the presence of soldier Makes them behave well.
I served in Kubwa camp Abj. The fear of Ejeakpa is the beginning of wisdom. I really enjoyed my PPA
ReplyDeleteHmm my orientation was at Keffi, Nasarawa state, January 2002, it was really fun wooo, never missed a thing. I was the first on the list of redeployment for health reason. But was lucky enough I didn't fall I'll on camp.
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