Necessary documents to take to the Orientation camp (FOR THE OTONDOS)
Still on NYSC, you won’t blame me but we need to inform our new otondos about certain things before they start building up wrong impressions about NYSC. Now that you have your call up letter, you’re good to go. My good to go does not include just taking your clothes and call-up letter and boarding a bus to the orientation camp. Farabale please!
There are basic things you need to take along to the orientation camp and they are: Your final year student ID Card, The Notification of result from your higher institution (original and photocopies). If you don’t have, go back to your school and sleep there. Hold on to them like Jacob did to Angel Gabriel and say, “I will not let you people go until you give me my Notification of result.” And May God help you with that struggle.
Next is your passport photographs; don’t go and do oversabi by borrowing your sister or brother’s khaki to snap. Remember you’re still an otondo, just snap in your nice outfit (red background). Now that you are aware, you need passport photographs; it is better you have many copies with you.
Next is your NYSC Call Up letter (ORIGINAL with photocopies). During the registration exercise, you will be given some documents, which you will have to fill, attach your passport photographs and submit to the necessary officers. The documents are easy to fill and incase you don’t understand some part, don’t keep silent, approach those who will help you out. Don’t be ashamed to let them put you through.
Before you start packing your makeups and clothes and food, please take these documents first into your bag, for that is the pass into the orientation camp, otherwise you will be sent back home. Make photocopies from home, cos those people around the camp will charge you so tey you go just confuse. Trust me, once those Okada men see that you are a new OTONDO, they will charge you so high and you been a stranger, am sure you might just have to pay them.
Once you complete your registration, you will be issued your STATE CODE, which will be your unique code all through your service year. With this code, you will then go ahead to claim your mattress and your NYSC kits. I repeat again, write your state CODE on all your stuffs away from those gumming fingers. You will then be directed to your hostel where you will stay all through the Orientation exercise. Once you locate your hostel, the bunks might be labelled, in that case, find your bunk and get settled. You can then put on your NYSC kit and jungle boots which will be given to you. Don’t bother parking all your Christmas clothes to camp for you’ll end up wearing your white shorts and vests,that was why I said you should buy five white shorts and vests. But if you have decided not to go back home after the orientation exercise, you can pack all wears to camp then. For those of you who still want to see mom and dad before finally marrying NYSC, You can take few wears along, for you might be allowed to be in Muftis on Sunday for your church/mosque services.
Don’t forget your waist bag, it costs N400 at the Maami market and you may decide to buy before coming. It will come handy during parades and any other activities in camp. Your phones, money and other valuable items can be kept in the waist bag while carrying out your exercises.
If you have a digital camera, you can also take it along with you because those photographers can drain your pockets with their hard to resist photo. I was billed about 3k for all my pictures back then, because I have no good phone camera to snap. So learn from me, have a good phone camera or bring your digital camera along, so you won’t have to fully rely on them for all your photographs. But on the day of passing out, photographers give out cheap prices and that was why I waited till the last day, and that turned my 3k pictures to 1,500. Bose ri niyen and please don’t laugh at me, remember we’re on a mission to help you manage your finances in camp. Lol
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