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Post NYSC Trauma: A call to outgoing corp members

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"C99flTkT" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>By UMAR FARUK AHMAD<&sol;p><div class&equals;"3p8fMkyO" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>The one year compulsory National Youth Service Corp &lpar;NYSC&rpar; is always fun&excl; Right from the three weeks orientation camp to the experience gained from the individual Place of Primary Assignment &lpar;PPA&rpar;&comma; and to top it all the N33&comma;000 monthly allowance as it is that makes you feel like a government employee for 12 months&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Several youths often fantasise about landing a white collar job immediately after NYSC to upgrade from N33&comma;000 a month to a presumptuous N200&comma;000&period; Not fulfilling this dream could create what some call &&num;8220&semi;Post NYSC trauma&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Few days ago&comma; a twitter veteran &commat;Drolufunmilayo posted &&num;8220&semi;&&num;8230&semi;If you are not from a super-rich home&comma; if your parents are not political elites&sol;allies&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;There&&num;8217&semi;s no 300k job waiting for everybody<br &sol;>&NewLine;Post NYSC depression is real&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"UDqYP0FY" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>While awaiting NYSC passing out parade&comma; a Batch A &comma;2020 corp member serving at Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic Bauchi&comma; Abubakar Ibrahim Waziri expressed his fear of life after NYSC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He said that him having completed his education is ready for whatever job the government can offer&comma; while also admitting that chances of securing a job is unpredictable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He alleged that it doesn&&num;8217&semi;t matter what you know but who you know&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking on self dependence&comma; Waziri said he would rather be a job creator than a job seeker&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I used my allowances to start up a shop and I am doing a clothing business now&period; My plan is after service I am going to start a laundry so I am going to merge the two&period; If I don&&num;8217&semi;t make sales in the laundry&comma; I will make sales in the clothing business&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another outgoing corp member Mr&period; Desmond Ezuluebo condemned the notion of a job waiting for a person after NYSC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I have an elder brother who stayed at home for five years without a job&comma; so I know how he struggled before he got something he was doing&&num;8221&semi; he related&period; He advised all corp members to get themselves equipped with on demand skills in order to be self reliant financially&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking with another corp member Hart Princess Esther explained that post NYSC trauma only affects those who depend on white collar jobs&period; Esther related that she is into painting and installation of 3D boards which she will depend on after her youth service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition&comma; a 2016 ex corp member Khadijah Lawal Kwargana exclaimed that post NYSC trauma is real&excl; Absence of the monthly allowance coupled with idleness requires adjustment in one&&num;8217&semi;s life&comma; she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Miss Kwargana maintained that if she could go back in time she wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t do anything differently during her youth service because she saved part of her allowances and used it judiciously&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From an entrepreneurs view&comma; a graduate of animal science and an ex corp member from 2016 Mr&period; Iliya Micah narrated that despite graduating with first class honours&comma; he didn&&num;8217&semi;t receive any employment offer from the university as he was expecting&comma; a situation which he said is an indication that the promises of the 21st century are fast declining&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He argued that at the dawn of a new revolution white collar jobs are going into extinction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr&period; Micah maintained that post NYSC trauma is real&comma; relating that after 12 months&comma; the monthly allowances and corporate clothes are taken away&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While alerting corp members that the global economy has changed&comma; the entrepreneur therefore advised them to invest in themselves before completing the service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The world is in what we call the connected economy or the connected revolution &&num;8221&semi; Mr&period; Micah asserted&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 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