Beyond Serving The Fatherland

"Under the sun or in the rain, with dedication and selflessness, Nigeria is ours, Nigeria we serve"...that particular aspect of the NYSC anthem always highlights the commitment and purpose of serving our fatherland. One thing I just disliked in the anthem is that they never inserted a stanza that will keep reminding the nigeria youth that after one year of serving our fatherland, they won't be payment of federal and state government little honorary into our account or a stanza that will keep ringing a bell on every corp member and prospective corp members that after one year of your compulsory service to your fatherland, they is no sure red, blue or black collar job waiting for anybody for grabs.

It always dishearten when you see our youth unemployed after so many years out of school which in most cases increase the level of unemployment rate in Nigeria. I salute the courage of the NYSC authority by initiating a programme call SAED(skill acquisition and entrepreneur development). According to the body, this programme is initiated to provide all corp members the opportunity to learn different skills so as to be self employed during and after service year. One thing that actually disappoint me about this programme is that since NYSC intends to empower the corp members, adequate fund or soft loans most have been created so that corp members can actually use that to set up on their own after service year.

Though am aware that the body has provided a shadow soft loan for selective corp members. This loans according to the NYSC is provided to corp members to finance any of their intending project. According to my findings, its so unfortunate to hear that, this said loan is not designed for all corp members but selected few of which their respective local government believe they most have satisfied their own individual desires( though,I stand to be corrected).


To all corp members who are passing out soonest, will want to encourage you to please think twice before lavishing your last summed up "allawee" cause after this, no more bank alert every 30th or 29th of the month. And for the prospective corp members, please think of the business, savings or investment you want to engage yourselves in before the commencement of your service year. Will encourage you to learn a particular skill you are comfortable in and start running it so as to avoid making you depend on your monthly allawee as your only source of income. Service year is one of the most interesting years, but always remember that after one year they is no automatic work except for the few 'fortunate' ones.

Will end this piece by saying I pray that one day corp members will be given a reasonable amount of money when passing out to establish themselves and not rely on white colour jobs and what have you. If 14million could be dashed out to the individual members who attended the just concluded CONFAB, then the government can also make provisions for every corp member to be given a reasonable some of money to invest or establish themselves so as to alleviate poverty, thuggery and the issue of unemployment among Nigerian youth

I don't think that it is in saying the words that we come to do them. A good example is with The National Anthem. If you want to produce people with impressionable character and entrepreneurial mindset then you should pay more attention in what you do and not say.

People understand and lead better when you show them how to do anything and not when you tell them how to do it. If we can go back a bit to the tertiary institution and make the semester exams to be purely practical then we have moved a step further. I mean a one on one practical with 3-5 examiners. Then we can curb other vices like malpractice and unjustifiable degrees.

I think the monthly Allowee is overrated. This is my fourth month and yet to save anything. Initially I tried saving some money but had to withdraw to tackle other pressing issues. Allowee would have been a motivation to start saving if other things were first settled. My PPA never bothered to give me an accomodation or its monetary equivalent. I stay in a one-room self con that goes for 70k payable installmentally. I will pay off this month so automatically I won't be saving this month. My PPA is yet to pay my 2months stipends, about 60k or 30 or nothing.

So how do I save well if the government doesn't tackle every problem the corper will encounter before the allowee come along? Allowee is overrated.

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