NYSC registration

Towards the end of August, I got a call from my mommy saying that I had to push pause at work, get an approval for a 1 week vacation and come to Nigeria so that we can go to Abuja to register for Batch C 2012 youth corpers. Ofcourse I wondered why someone couldn't just do it for me, I mean, it's Nigeria, there is always a way around such things.

Anyways, I went.

A little background on my lifestyle here. My parents moved back to Nigeria a couple years ago and my only sibling and I stayed in Toronto. He went to school 3 hrs away from home so my parent's house was usually empty. I had my own apartment downtown Toronto because it was closer to my school and work. While I was in my 3rd year at school, I got a part time job as a leasing specialist within a property management company. I stuck with it and I became a full time staff after graduation. Now, it was a valuable experience and I enjoyed what I did but there was no way I went to school for 4yrs to end up at that job. It was a great job and paid alright at the moment but if I plan to buy that babyblue Bentley Continental GT, that crib in Ikoyi, those condos and lofts downtown Toronto, in Paris, Dubai and a vacation house in St Marteen, buy each of the unborn children private jets and pay cash for their university education, this job just won't cut it. I'm sure you see why I quit and decided to follow another path.

Prior to landing, I had been told what documents I needed to bring and I had them all. Good thing mom used to work for NYSC and still knows people there because the women in charge of registration were very rude. They were eating roasted corn and peanuts(I think) while they pushed me around between one another. 

Here is a list of what I brought with me:

• Passport photographs (just always bring lots of these whenever you are asked to bring 1 or 2)
• High school Transcripts
• University first degree diploma and transcripts
• Nigerian & Canadian passports indicating the first departure from and re-entry into Nigeria (which was ridiculous because I have been through 1 or 2 passports since I left the country. This is another situation where knowing someone inside comes to play)
• A pen because you will fill a couple of redundant forms and no one likes to let you borrow their pens in this office.

This list varies depending on what you studied and your status in your country of study and a couple of other factors, so please refer to the NYSC website, which actually gives you some information. I was appalled when I realized that someone actually updates the site even if it is once a year.

http://www.nysc.gov.ng/forignnysc2012.php

My next post will be on takeoff day or when I land in Nigeria. Which should be followed shortly by the picking up of the call up letter. Seriously, I have not been sleeping, I am terrified of going to camp.

~Kdamsel~