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Gold And Mangoes: A short description of Blackgold Camp Kaduna State. Michaelou by michaelou(m): 8:44am On Aug 26, 2016 |
My service started when I got to nysc camp in kaduna state. Blackgold as the camp was fondly called is the house of a thousand mango trees with succulent bright yellow colours. One wonders why it's call "Blackgold camp" instead of "yellow mangoes camp". The very first thing I noticed when I got to camp was the statue of a corper outside the gate right in front of the security post in between the entrance and exit gate in a saluting position. History has it that he(the statue) is the truest,longest and long-suffering serving corper that doesn't receive allowee. Blackgold camp is about 1000sqm/ft housing various corpers hostel, the soldiers hostel, the multipurpose hall, the kitchen, the mosque, the churches, the clinic, the civilians hostel, the infamous maami market and the parade ground occupying about 15% of the land space. The second thing that comes to mind in Blackgold was the water. Water is really scarce. I don't know if it's because of the fact that the camp is in the middle of an express or its just a north thing(no offense to the northerner). I heard there is scarcity of water in the North because of the heat, the heat! Omg! I'm still coming to that. The heat probably dried up the surface water I can't tell, the geologists are more than able to do justice to that cause. Another thing is that even the little water is dirty and some yellowish stuff is always on the surface making it look like Mr ibu and mr osuofia "16 puke combined in equal volume and pressure. The heat. I actually don't know the right adjective to describe this phenomenon. You can actually feel the death ray boiling your blood and damaging the integrity of the melanocytes, spilling their content and eventually resulting into the formation of dark spots on the skin. Prolong exposure to this environmental factor can also lead to mutation in the dna. Unity hall is/was the hall because it's opposite maami market and a stone throw from the parade ground making resources easily accessibly and the distance to the parade ground shorter respectively. Just has everything has its pros and cons so does unity hall. It's was too tight. If I had know I would left for camp on Sunday (camp officially opened the following wednesday) I got there on Tuesday and everyone in the bus that transported I and the remaining prospective corp members to kaduna were in the same room aside the girls. Unity hall looks like the letter "U" and in between is a large circular brick work and two tanks right in front of the circle. When I was in camp the pumping machine that's was suppose to supply this tanks got damaged and we had to fetch water from the main gate which was about 110km from the hostel. Despite all these travails, we all survived (21 days). And I most say, it was one of the most exciting moment of my life. This is for the incoming corp members and others. Ps: errors, pls correct if any. cc: lalasticlala, yokiti.
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Re: Gold And Mangoes: A short description of Blackgold Camp Kaduna State. Michaelou by giftiebrown(m): 9:07am On Aug 26, 2016 |
Black Gold Camp, I ws there....Kaduna! Kaduna! y u no go zamfara?? |
Re: Gold And Mangoes: A short description of Blackgold Camp Kaduna State. Michaelou by braimeddy: 9:24am On Aug 26, 2016 |
Op, I don't want u re trying to say. Wether u re saying blackgold is a nice camp or otherwise cos ur write up is contradictory. But I've to correct u on some comments u made. You said u use to fetch water from d main gate which is 110km to d hostel. My friend the location of that camp to the main kaduna city is just 16km. So I don't know how u did ur own calculation. In terms of water supply, it's not as bad as u claimed it to be cos there are taps running in that camp. Except u re 1 of d lazy dudes that's not patient enough to wait on the queue to get to ur turn. You talked abt excess heat, I will say that's true. During my years of serving in that city, I didn't experience any heat. But if u say there's excess cold, den I will agree wit u. In summary, kaduna camp is one of the best camps in Nigeria. That was why foreign students used that camp as their base when abuja camp was still under renovation. It was really a nice experience serving in Kaduna. If not their crises, I really love that city. |
Re: Gold And Mangoes: A short description of Blackgold Camp Kaduna State. Michaelou by michaelou(m): 9:55am On Aug 26, 2016 |
braimeddy:noted. u suppose to know the distance thing is an exaggeration. contradictory how? a For your information mr, I don't jump queues and don't u ever use the word "lazy" to describe me or anyone if u don't know them. |
Re: Gold And Mangoes: A short description of Blackgold Camp Kaduna State. Michaelou by Emmyviva: 8:05pm On Aug 26, 2016 |
michaelou:u are my set.. Jus saw dat fair gal dat normally wear jungle boot . BatchA stream2 |
Re: Gold And Mangoes: A short description of Blackgold Camp Kaduna State. Michaelou by michaelou(m): 10:05pm On Aug 26, 2016 |
Emmyviva:sorry man, I was in stream 1. |
Re: Gold And Mangoes: A short description of Blackgold Camp Kaduna State. Michaelou by Emmyviva: 2:25am On Aug 28, 2016 |
michaelou:sori stream1. "una go suffer pass job " |
Re: Gold And Mangoes: A short description of Blackgold Camp Kaduna State. Michaelou by michaelou(m): 7:11pm On Aug 28, 2016 |
Emmyviva:definitely my batch. that funky soldier Made camp fun. |
Re: Gold And Mangoes: A short description of Blackgold Camp Kaduna State. Michaelou by Anasko(m): 7:33pm On Aug 28, 2016 |
most of the things you mentioned here were out of points. we have taps and tanks of water every day. black gold is one of the most conducive camp. batch b stream 1 |
Re: Gold And Mangoes: A short description of Blackgold Camp Kaduna State. Michaelou by michaelou(m): 6:59am On Aug 30, 2016 |
Anasko:don't get me wrong. I didn't mention up there that there was tanks or taps. of course they are but are they all functional? |
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