Geogranite:
Conversation between a PCM and the DG

ME: good evening sir.
DG : How are you?
Me: I'm fine sir, sir right now you are my father.
DG: Yes!
ME: sir, I've stayed at home for two years and my parents are becoming more and more worried about me serving, sir, i have 3 questions to ask you sir and I hope you will be truthful to me sir
DG: I'm listening
Me:
1. When are we expected in camp sir?
DG: By grace of God, if not this week we are entering, the upper week
Me: OK sir
2. if we are to camp by next week, it will run into Ramadan period and.... cuts me short
DG: that's another thing I cannot answer, because you know that Ramadan is gonna be a problem in the sense that I have to call my management team, to come together, i will now table the problem then they will fix the date, If they say we should do it during the Ramadan no problem we will, but if they say after the Ramadan then it is off my power. all I am saying is that first of all let me collect my logistics before I now call the meeting to hear from them. Are we clear?
Me: we are clear sir, he cuts me short again
DG: my problem now is if I can get all my logistics on time, the boot, the uniforms, if they finish everything. if it will fall during Ramadan I will ask them can we run it during Ramadan, if they say yes, fine and good, if they say no, we will have to shift it till after Ramadan, depends on them.
Me: Sir, after Ramadan will be like 2nd week of July that means we will automatically be batch b.
DG : No, it can't be batch b, batch B are not coming till October. even if u reach July, you are still batch A. whatever it is we are going to merge you with stream 1
ME : OK sir
3. there was a message someone sent to me in the morning concerning changing the state of deployment, is that true sir?
DG: it is not true, what you have on your call up letter is what we are still going to maintain only that we change the date. that's all.
Me: thank you Sir, you've been helpful
DG: God bless you

why should the caller be reminding the DG about ramadan again, is Nigeria an islamic nation? Is nysc a relgious organisation, why should a national/state event be stalled because a particular religion is observing fasting period. I tink people are just giving this ramadan more popularity than it deserves...

You can tweet @benmurraybruce

CandiceJay:
We are taking this issue lightly which shouldn't be so. We are even creating excuses for NYSC. Have there not been orientations where muslim fast fell inyo? there have been! So why are we giving them the chance to use dis one as an excuse. Do you know that this postponement is even worse than all others cus there's no possible date, no timetable, no CUL, no official statement, no nothing. Hmmmm

Lets rise up, i am doing that which i can. Lets put away d nonchalant attitude and act as youths

Please i need numbers to call

com to tink of it, nysc batch A camping normally falls withing February/March which happens to b d period of fasting for Christians i mean lent period. I never heard in d past dat camping was postpone because of lent if not ours was delay because of fund. nysc do camp during lent nd nobody ever raise any issue because of dat. So why should people raise issue because of ramadan?

#NYSCstreamIIthisweekorscrapthescheme

Fraiser:
com to tink of it, nysc batch A camping normally falls withing February/March which happens to b d period of fasting for Christians i mean lent period. I never heard in d past dat camping was postpone because of lent if not ours was delay because of fund. nysc do camp during lent nd nobody ever raise any issue because of dat. So why should people raise issue because of ramadan?

I really do not get it. It's as though we are the ones even giving them excuses. These people are playing with our lives and we are being so simple with it. It's high time youths realise that the future starts now. If you keep allowing this people play with your today, your tomorrow is in jeopardy.

And we wonder why we do not have young PhD holders from Nigerian universities. How can we? When you spend 6-7 years reading a 4year course and 2years for a 1year youth scheme. Just imagine. Even if you got into the university at 16, with all this, you'll hold a BSc at 23-24. Haba, naija

happy Sunday
OPEN LETTER TO THE DIRECTOR GENERAL (DG) NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE CORPS.
(BY:ALAO JOHN, A CONCERNED PROSPECTIVE CORPS MEMBER)

Dear Sir;

SAVE OUR FUTURE
STOP WASTING OUR PRECIOUS TIME

With due respect to your office and your personality sir, it would be insane of me if I fail to congratulate you on your appointment as the Director General (DG) National Youth Service Corps few months ago by General Muhammadu Buhari (President Federal Republic of Nigeria).
Haven said that, this letter is necessitated and borne out of the untold suffering, heartache and hardship prospective corps members had encountered in the last few months since the beginning of postponement saga.
I felt obliged to tell you sir that " A minute delay can result to a lifetime regret not to talk of spending almost a year at home anticipating for an inconsistent scheme called NYSC.

Sir, many has resigned from the menial work they use to keep the body and soul together with the believe that its about time to serve our Father's land.
What sicken me most is our inability to secure a better employment without NYSC dispatch certificate which is being demanded from us by employers in many organizations and parastatals.
More so,many prospective corps members can not further their education because of this delay.
It is pertinent to let you know that we are being forced to stay idle, and an idle hand they say is the devil's workshop.
Our precious time is being wasted by awaiting an inconsistent system all because of our curiosity and ardent desire to serve our Father's land in humility, patriotism and good faith.
How long shall we continue to wait?
How long shall we continue to hope?
How long shall we continue to anticipate earnestly?
How long shall we be subjected to unwarranted impediment?
Our patience has gotten to its elastic limit.
The hardship in Nigeria is so unbearable for us and it will be inhumane to be punishing the youth and leaders of tomorrow by promising them to continue to wait for what seems to be uncertain and this is not in the best interest of Nigeria graduates.
Sir, we can no longer wait for NYSC to determine the course of our future. As we are awaiting a new date yet to be fixed, it would be another rape on our right as Nigeria graduate if the time frame is so elongated than a week from now.
In lieu with this, as a concerned prospective corps member, I hereby urge and plead the management and staff of National Youth Service Corps headed by your good office to feel our pains and save our future by putting everything in place and in shape so that BATCH A STREAM II corps members can be camped in not more than a week time.
Sir, we know you to be a father and your magnanimous magnanimity is what we expect in this imbroglio in order to save our future because we are the leaders of tomorrow. A timely and urgent intervention is what we crave for.
A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE

God bless
The Director General
National Youth Service Corps.
God bless
National Youth Service Corps
God bless
Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Thanks
Yours Sincerely
Comrade Alao John.
A prospective corps member and a redefined activist.
Write from the state of sober reflection.
Email: Alaojohn75@gmail.com
Facebook: Comrade Alao John Damilola.

#copied

Ayanfe29:
happy Sunday
OPEN LETTER TO THE DIRECTOR GENERAL (DG) NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE CORPS.
(BY:ALAO JOHN, A CONCERNED PROSPECTIVE CORPS MEMBER)

Dear Sir;

SAVE OUR FUTURE
STOP WASTING OUR PRECIOUS TIME

With due respect to your office and your personality sir, it would be insane of me if I fail to congratulate you on your appointment as the Director General (DG) National Youth Service Corps few months ago by General Muhammadu Buhari (President Federal Republic of Nigeria).
Haven said that, this letter is necessitated and borne out of the untold suffering, heartache and hardship prospective corps members had encountered in the last few months since the beginning of postponement saga.
I felt obliged to tell you sir that " A minute delay can result to a lifetime regret not to talk of spending almost a year at home anticipating for an inconsistent scheme called NYSC.

Sir, many has resigned from the menial work they use to keep the body and soul together with the believe that its about time to serve our Father's land.
What sicken me most is our inability to secure a better employment without NYSC dispatch certificate which is being demanded from us by employers in many organizations and parastatals.
More so,many prospective corps members can not further their education because of this delay.
It is pertinent to let you know that we are being forced to stay idle, and an idle hand they say is the devil's workshop.
Our precious time is being wasted by awaiting an inconsistent system all because of our curiosity and ardent desire to serve our Father's land in humility, patriotism and good faith.
How long shall we continue to wait?
How long shall we continue to hope?
How long shall we continue to anticipate earnestly?
How long shall we be subjected to unwarranted impediment?
Our patience has gotten to its elastic limit.
The hardship in Nigeria is so unbearable for us and it will be inhumane to be punishing the youth and leaders of tomorrow by promising them to continue to wait for what seems to be uncertain and this is not in the best interest of Nigeria graduates.
Sir, we can no longer wait for NYSC to determine the course of our future. As we are awaiting a new date yet to be fixed, it would be another rape on our right as Nigeria graduate if the time frame is so elongated than a week from now.
In lieu with this, as a concerned prospective corps member, I hereby urge and plead the management and staff of National Youth Service Corps headed by your good office to feel our pains and save our future by putting everything in place and in shape so that BATCH A STREAM II corps members can be camped in not more than a week time.
Sir, we know you to be a father and your magnanimous magnanimity is what we expect in this imbroglio in order to save our future because we are the leaders of tomorrow. A timely and urgent intervention is what we crave for.
A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE

God bless
The Director General
National Youth Service Corps.
God bless
National Youth Service Corps
God bless
Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Thanks
Yours Sincerely
Comrade Alao John.
A prospective corps member and a redefined activist.
Write from the state of sober reflection.
Email: Alaojohn75@gmail.com
Facebook: Comrade Alao John Damilola.

#copied

Very wonderful but has this letter been sent?

Fraiser:
why should the caller be reminding the DG about ramadan again, is Nigeria an islamic nation? Is nysc a relgious organisation, why should a national/state event be stalled because a particular religion is observing fasting period. I tink people are just giving this ramadan more popularity than it deserves...

baby u taking it d oda way he was jst concern abt some muslim broda nd sisters dat cant do witout fasting cos dey cant fast and stil go on wit camp man o war drills na

sasquareT:

I'm with you on this....pls my fellow PCMs we can do this all we need is just to narrate our ordeal to any of the human right activist lawyers and bingo our voice will be heard......
pls if u have any of activist lawyers contact u can drop it online for those of us who will like to call them.

hmmm! You made me laugh. Do we need to go to human right activists' houses one by one to beg them? Are they deaf and blind? Is our ordeal so personal, secretive and inaudible that we need to tell them. Have they no eyes and ears to see and hear our slights. There are no serious human right activists out there. The existing ones are political sycophants. If they are waiting for us to come and meet them. They goofed. Our destinies are in our own very hands. We are our own activists. Lets continue it the way we have been doing. Lets go to twitter, facebook, and every other available social media platform. Lets tell the world of our statutory apprehension. Lets us be united because of recent, dichotomy have crept into our mist. Lets kick it out. Lets unite and go for the heads of our enemies.

CandiceJay:
We are taking this issue lightly which shouldn't be so. We are even creating excuses for NYSC. Have there not been orientations where muslim fast fell inyo? there have been! So why are we giving them the chance to use dis one as an excuse. Do you know that this postponement is even worse than all others cus there's no possible date, no timetable, no CUL, no official statement, no nothing. Hmmmm

Lets rise up, i am doing that which i can. Lets put away d nonchalant attitude and act as youths

Please i need numbers to call

Its just unfortunate that we can't really mobilise oursef herre. If we caan get phone lines of some print media houses and plead with them to carry our story in their dailies ds week. We can even give them that impression dt we want to protest ds week.
I only have a journalist dt works with channels TV. @Seunokin.Political correspondent at channelstV

Eaglevision
Candicejoy
Fraiser
Sunnepa
Everyone

No To JULY CAMP oooooooooooo

CandiceJay:


I really do not get it. It's as though we are the ones even giving them excuses. This people are playing with our lives and we are being so simple with it. It's high time youths realise that the future starts now. If you keep allowing this people play with your today, your tomorrow is in jeopardy.

And we wonder why we do not have young PhD holders from Nigerian universities. How can we? When you spend 6-7 years reading a 4year course and 2years for a 1year youth scheme. Just imagine. Even if you got into the university at 16, with all this, you'll hold a BSc at 23-24. Haba, naija

well said dear from d begining to the end, I dont know why some people are calling the DG nd give him excuse to postpone camping in the name of ramadan. Its better not to call him than to call him and been talking about ramadan.

Ayanfe29:
happy Sunday
OPEN LETTER TO THE DIRECTOR GENERAL (DG) NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE CORPS.
(BY:ALAO JOHN, A CONCERNED PROSPECTIVE CORPS MEMBER)

Dear Sir;

SAVE OUR FUTURE
STOP WASTING OUR PRECIOUS TIME

With due respect to your office and your personality sir, it would be insane of me if I fail to congratulate you on your appointment as the Director General (DG) National Youth Service Corps few months ago by General Muhammadu Buhari (President Federal Republic of Nigeria).
Haven said that, this letter is necessitated and borne out of the untold suffering, heartache and hardship prospective corps members had encountered in the last few months since the beginning of postponement saga.
I felt obliged to tell you sir that " A minute delay can result to a lifetime regret not to talk of spending almost a year at home anticipating for an inconsistent scheme called NYSC.

Sir, many has resigned from the menial work they use to keep the body and soul together with the believe that its about time to serve our Father's land.
What sicken me most is our inability to secure a better employment without NYSC dispatch certificate which is being demanded from us by employers in many organizations and parastatals.
More so,many prospective corps members can not further their education because of this delay.
It is pertinent to let you know that we are being forced to stay idle, and an idle hand they say is the devil's workshop.
Our precious time is being wasted by awaiting an inconsistent system all because of our curiosity and ardent desire to serve our Father's land in humility, patriotism and good faith.
How long shall we continue to wait?
How long shall we continue to hope?
How long shall we continue to anticipate earnestly?
How long shall we be subjected to unwarranted impediment?
Our patience has gotten to its elastic limit.
The hardship in Nigeria is so unbearable for us and it will be inhumane to be punishing the youth and leaders of tomorrow by promising them to continue to wait for what seems to be uncertain and this is not in the best interest of Nigeria graduates.
Sir, we can no longer wait for NYSC to determine the course of our future. As we are awaiting a new date yet to be fixed, it would be another rape on our right as Nigeria graduate if the time frame is so elongated than a week from now.
In lieu with this, as a concerned prospective corps member, I hereby urge and plead the management and staff of National Youth Service Corps headed by your good office to feel our pains and save our future by putting everything in place and in shape so that BATCH A STREAM II corps members can be camped in not more than a week time.
Sir, we know you to be a father and your magnanimous magnanimity is what we expect in this imbroglio in order to save our future because we are the leaders of tomorrow. A timely and urgent intervention is what we crave for.
A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE

God bless
The Director General
National Youth Service Corps.
God bless
National Youth Service Corps
God bless
Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Thanks
Yours Sincerely
Comrade Alao John.
A prospective corps member and a redefined activist.
Write from the state of sober reflection.
Email: Alaojohn75@gmail.com
Facebook: Comrade Alao John Damilola.

#copied

may God bless the writer of this letter, I hope it is published in one of the national dailies...

Honeybash:
baby u taking it d oda way he was jst concern abt some muslim broda nd sisters dat cant do witout fasting cos dey cant fast and stil go on wit camp man o war drills na

any muslim brother or sister that can not combine the two should either voluntarily withraw from going with the stream or ready to suspend fasting in camp. Abah missing only this year fasting can not kill them na. Is their not going to be fasting next year again?

phykel:


Its just unfortunate that we can't really mobilise oursef herre. If we caan get phone lines of some print media houses and plead with them to carry our story in their dailies ds week. We can even give them that impression dt we want to protest ds week.
I only have a journalist dt works with channels TV. @Seunokin.Political correspondent at channelstV

Eaglevision
Candicejoy
Fraiser
Sunnepa
Everyone

No To JULY CAMP oooooooooooo

Tnks Sir, iv sent him a tweet

Fraiser:
any muslim brother or sister that can not combine the two should either voluntarily withraw from going with the stream or ready to suspend fasting in camp. Abah missing only this year fasting can not kill them na. Is their not going to be fasting next year again?

I think what is usually done is to excuse the muslims from the rigorous activities in camp. It's as simple as that.

phykel:


Its just unfortunate that we can't really mobilise oursef herre. If we caan get phone lines of some print media houses and plead with them to carry our story in their dailies ds week. We can even give them that impression dt we want to protest ds week.
I only have a journalist dt works with channels TV. @Seunokin.Political correspondent at channelstV

Eaglevision
Candicejoy
Fraiser
Sunnepa
Everyone

No To JULY CAMP oooooooooooo

well said baba. July camping is not welcome for any reason be it ramadan or not. We can not accept postponement till July again. We need to act fast.

CandiceJay:


Very wonderful but has this letter been sent?

I copied it from a whatsapp group too.... but we can help spread it to make our voices heard

CandiceJay:


I think what is usually done is to excuse the muslims from the rigorous activities in camp. It's as simple as that.

abi na... Ramadan should not be an issue at all when Nigeria is not an islamic state, why should people be talking about ramadan all the time.

You guys should be considerate but the only thing we need to do is to appeal to NYSC to at least exempt the Moslems from the rigorous activities. But come to think of it if camps stands on the 25th then the Muslim fast will be the last two days of camp and that shouldn't be an issue

CandiceJay:


Tnks Sir, iv sent him a tweet

Hw I wish we can all tweet him.
He holds Programme every sunday evening Political Platform on channels TV

I knew it will come to this issue ramadan.

July is a NO NO NO!

selvad:
You guys should be considerate but the only thing we need to do is to appeal to NYSC to at least exempt the Moslems from the rigorous activities. But come to think of it if camps stands on the 25th then the Muslim fast will be the last two days of camp and that shouldn't be an issue

Even if it runs into the last week of camp, d last week is usually not so stressful. The Muslims can be excused from stressful activities, abi. There really is no excuse for this NYSC people.

Fraiser:
any muslim brother or sister that can not combine the two should either voluntarily withraw from going with the stream or ready to suspend fasting in camp. Abah missing only this year fasting can not kill them na. Is their not going to be fasting next year again?

it nice no vex

CandiceJay:


Even if it runs into the last week of camp, d last week is usually not so stressful. The Muslims can be excused from stressful activities, abi. There really is no excuse for this NYSC people.

that's what I'm saying o

#ignorance

1mrblitz:
#ignorance

is no defense Salam my friend

My dear are you minding some ppl. I said same thing in a whatsapp group that NYSC is not a religious organization therefore, ramaadan should not be a criteria for setting a new date and some oloshis started talking rubbish

CandiceJay:
We are taking this issue lightly which shouldn't be so. We are even creating excuses for NYSC. Have there not been orientations where muslim fast fell inyo? there have been! So why are we giving them the chance to use dis one as an excuse. Do you know that this postponement is even worse than all others cus there's no possible date, no timetable, no CUL, no official statement, no nothing. Hmmmm

Lets rise up, i am doing that which i can. Lets put away d nonchalant attitude and act as youths

Please i need numbers to call

Honeybash:
it nice no vex

I don vex already...

selvad:
You guys should be considerate but the only thing we need to do is to appeal to NYSC to at least exempt the Moslems from the rigorous activities. But come to think of it if camps stands on the 25th then the Muslim fast will be the last two days of camp and that shouldn't be an issue

you made sense, this kind of comment is what is expected of a matured graduate on delicate issue such as religion

Honeybash:
no dulling swt the biggest size of d cake is urs

tnx darling,ur sppecial jor
baby hope ur making ur voice heard?

barongmj:
My dear are you minding some ppl. I said same thing in a whatsapp group that NYSC is not a religious organization therefore, ramaadan should not be a criteria for setting a new date and some oloshis started talking rubbish

dont mind dem jare naso some people dey carry religion for head lyk wycley... Na why nigeria dey dis shit wey we dey see now... We are all seeing the result now... Make I no talk sha...

Fraiser:
any muslim brother or sister that can not combine the two should either voluntarily withraw from going with the stream or ready to suspend fasting in camp. Abah missing only this year fasting can not kill them na. Is their not going to be fasting next year again?

baba lets take it easy,Religion is a very sensitive issue,bt im sure 50% of muslim PCMs dnt want July as well

Am not taking it hard boss, all am saying is dat ramadan shud not be a criterial in fixing date of camp, nd I will never recant my words, I dont fuckin.g care about any sensitivity.