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OCT
26
Challenges and Trials of a Nigerian NYSC Member
By:
EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima
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OCT
26
Martins chibuikemChallenges and Trials of a Nigerian NYSC MemberAs I held my call up National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) letter in my hand, I wondered what it would be like to finally go for youth service. Looking back at all that I have been through in school including the gruel some 2 years I had to wait to be finally mobilized for youth service, I wondered if the wait was worth it. As a graduate in Nigeria, if you don’t serve you will definitely find it hard to get job. So it is as important as your university degree it self. The National Youth Service Corps is a mandatory one year program in which graduates from different schools serve the nation for one year in a place where they will be posted. They say its voluntary but it is what we call optionally compulsory. The government has made it such that if you don’t go for service, you may not be able to find a job because every potential employer will require you to present your discharge certificate; a certificate given
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APR
27
President Jonathan, you must rescue the NYSC Members
By:
EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima
on
APR
27
Some NYSC members on national service for INEC during the 2011 ElectionsPresident Jonathan on the National Youth Service Corps Members: “will do what is right” including Professional Mental Health CounselingOur world has a long history of election violence but what makes the April 2011 Nigeria election violence distinct is the reported horrifying death of some National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members.How many of them actually got slaughtered, severely disfigured, vanished in the bushes or yet to be found remain unknown given our fragile intelligence and forensic power but we know that a good number of service corps members died in various riots across the predominantly Muslim northern States. As young men and women serving in Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps, a mandatory yearlong service, doing their civic work, little did they know that some of them will fall victim to deadly rioting that tailed the presidential election in particular. As part of their cal
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