NYSC OYO STATE SWEARS-IN CORPS MEMBERS

Over 2,000 members of the 2015 Batch B Stream 1 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) deployed to Oyo State, have been sworn-in by the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Muktar Abimbola.

The event took place at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp located in Iseyin Local Government Area of the state. The event commenced at the early hours of the date with corps members parade, followed by the swearing-in of corps members.

In his remarks, the Oyo State Governor Senator Isiaka Ajumobi who was represented by Otunba Moses Alake Adeyemi welcomed the corps members and urged them to be law abiding while serving in the state. He assured that the government will play its own part by looking after the welfare of the corps members.

PROFILE OF BRIG-GEN JB OLAWUMI FSS MSS CM PSC (+) PSC (JOINT) FDC (FELLOW DEFENCE COLLEGE)

Brigadier-General Johnson Bamidele Olawumi hails from Iyin Ekiti, Ekiti State of Nigeria.

He attended the Army Children School, Mokola, Ibadan for his primary education and thereafter proceeded to CAC Grammar School, Akure in Ondo State for his secondary education.

He enlisted into the Nigerian Army as a cadet of the 36 Regular Course on 24 September 1984 and was commissioned into the Nigerian Army Electrical and Mechanical Engineers' Corps on 23 September 1989. Since commission, the senior officer has attended the following courses:

Regimental Intelligence and Security Officers' Course at

The Nigerian Army Intelligence School, Apapa in 1990.

Young Officers’ Course Infantry in Jaji, 1991.

Anti-Tank Platoon Commanders' Course in Jaji, 1991.

EME Young Officers’ Course, NASEME Auchi in 1992.

Junior Staff Course at Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji in 1998.

EME Company Commanders' Course, NASEME Auchi in the year 2000.

Senior staff Course at Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji from August 2002 to July 2003.

WE WANT YOU TO BE JOB CREATORS – OLAWUMI

The Director General of the National Youth Service Crops, Brig General Johnson Bamidele Olawumi has said that the design of the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme (SAED) is to empower corps members to becoming job creators rather than job seekers.

The Director General stated this during his working visit to the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp Iseyin in continuation of his tour of NYSC camps nationwide.

General Olawumi stressed that the SAED programme becomes imperative as a result of challenges corps members are facing to harness employment opportunities after the service year.

The Director General said the global trends has shifted from searching for non-existent job to creating wealth with skills and brain.

“My dear compatriots in the national service and nation building, I want to advise you to key into the opportunities provided by the skills acquisition to better your lots and that of people around you during and after the service year.”

NYSC DG PREACHES LOYALTY, COMMITMENT TO NATION

Corps members in Oyo State and the country at large have been called upon to be loyal and committed to Nigeria.

The Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brig Gen. Johnson Olawumi made the call during his visit to Oyo state permanent orientation camp located in Iseyin. The DG urged corps members to avoid the use of derogatory words when talking about Nigeria.

He said “I believe that the country will be better regardless of the slow pace of its growth. The process of change may take some time, but change will definitely happen.”

OYO STATE COORDINATOR PREACHES DISCIPLINE TO 2015 BATCH B, STREAM 1 CORPS MEMBERS

The Oyo State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs. Olurunmilayo Akin-Moses has urged all 2015 Batch B Corps members deployed to the State to make discipline their watch word as they begin their one year service to their fatherland.

Mrs. Akin-Moses gave the advice while briefing Corps members at the State Orientation Camp in Iseyin. Mrs. Akin-Moses also encouraged them to be disciplined while in Camp and even after camp so as to enjoy an itch-free service year.

The Coordinator in her remarks congratulated the Batch B Corps members for making it to this stage of their lives and encouraged them to participate fully in all camp activities so as to not only pass through the orientation exercise but also for the orientation exercise to pass through them.

Mrs. Akin-Moses, who has a degree in History from the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, also stated that NYSC has lined up various programmes for the Corps members during their stay on camp such as the leadership and citizenship training with the Man-O-War, Military drills, social and cultural displays amongst others; and stressed the importance of active participation in all of these programmes.

THE DISBURSEMENT OF TRANSPORT ALLOWANCE TO CORP MEMBERS AT THE PERMANENT ORIENTATION CAMP, ISEYIN, OYO STATE

The National Youth Service corps in Oyo State would have been portrayed in a bad light without the disbursement of the sum of one thousand five hundred naira (#1500) for fare to corps members. It was made a statutory payment by the national leadership of NYSC to enable prospective corps members get little money for transport. The payment has two stages. The first payment was the insurance of a thousand five hundred naira to the young graduates rendering selfless service to their fatherland.

It may interest you to know that the collection of this money by corps members started at 5.00pm last Saturday and ended at about 6.30pm. It was continued on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the present week. According to a reliable source who spoke to our correspondence during the week under review, we gathered that the disbursement was on course. Statistics and other facts on ground had shown that over 300 corpers in the camp have reserved their payment as there was discrepancy in the disbursement.

NYSC DG ASSURES CORPS MEMBERS LOAN ACCESS

The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig Gen JB Olawumi have assured  corps members across the nation that they will have access ranging from five hundred thousand naira to two million naira, with their certificates as collateral with an interest rate of nine percent payable over a period of three to five years.

            Speaking shortly after his visit to the Oyo State NYSC Orientation Camp, located in Iseyin, Brig Olawumi expressed satisfaction with the good conduct of Corps Members, emphasized that NYSC in liaison with the Federal Government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Bank of Industry and the heritage Bank to give out loans to corps members who are ready to be self-reliant.

MY CAMP EXPERIENCE THUS FAR

I've made two major personal discoveries in the few days I've spent in camp thus far. It's been like nothing I expected.

The first is that I am NOT physically strong. I didn't know the extent of my physical weakness until I arrived to attend the NYSC Batch B 2015 Oyo state Camp. In my lame attempt to carry my box on my head at the camp gate, I fell down 3 times. In between the soldiers raising their deep voices at me to my fellow prospective corp members glaring at me with pity written all over their faces, I looked ahead only to discover a friend of mine had been videoing my struggle with the box the entire time. I cannot adequately explain how much shame I felt in that moment. What a way to begin my 3 week Journey!

Haven narrowly escaped the "box carrying" tradition with no injuries sustained; I breathed a sigh of relief thinking the worst was finally over. This was however short lived as the registration process proved to be a much more difficult task.

A Chat with Fawole John Oyeyemi

1. Can we meet you?

My name is Fawole John Oyeyemi, a Professional Chess Player & a graduate of computer science from University of Abuja. I learnt how to play chess and participated in my  first Chess tournament in 1999. In 2002, I won the Opens II category of the NBL Chess Championship in Lagos. The following year, I became the National Junior Chess Champion by winning the Agusto & Co under 20 Chess Championship.  Following my achievement in 2003, I started playing in the (Masters Category) highest level in Nigerian Chess.

2. It all started: It started right immediately after winning the Junior Championships, It was a long & tough journey and i think tenacity has brought me this far. I had to let go of chess for a while to concentrate on academics and earn my Bachelor's degree. At that point, i needed to set my priorities right and concentrate on academics after which i returned to chess and fortunately, i won the National Championship after Graduating from Uni.

Success is impossible without Habits

There are few things once acquired will guarantee success. In fact to be successful one must possess several qualities like patience, perseverance, consistency, hard work e.t.c. All these qualities applied together towards a specific goal always create success. Many have puzzled and searched for a shortcut to success but there really isn’t any. The closest thing to a cheat sheet for success is understanding and applying the power of habit formation.

According to Wikipedia, “Habit is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur unconsciously”. So in other words, habit is very similar to a computer program as it helps repeat a particular task regularly. And a computer program can be written to perform any task the programmer desires.

Finally: Approved timetable for 2015 Batch 'B' Mobilization & orientation course 

NYSC bars pregnant women, nursing mothers, PG students from service

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has barred pregnant women, nursing mothers and Post graduate students from partaking in the national service across the country.

NYSC DG, Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, said the exemption of people in these categories from service was because they would not be able to undergo the four cardinal programmes of the NYSC, which is mobilisation, orientation, primary assignment and winding-up passing out parade.

Olawumi said it didn't make sense that pregnant women and nursing mothers would be absent from these stages of the national service, only to resurface for posting to their various places of primary assignments. The NYSC also said that pregnant women and children would no longer be allowed into orientation camps across the country.

LAMENTATION OF THE BLACK GIRL CHILD

"I am that African girl child,
Whom you've left in the forests' wild.
While you darling to mourn my death,
As my dreams fade, breath by breath?

Was I not born with heart and soul,
That I'm treated as half the whole?
Was I not to be bred with boundless beauty,
Rather than penury and pains as my duty?

LIVE WITH IT

        Didn’t you see all these traits before getting yourself into such commitment’? Is the general question they are asked. Some will say, ‘I didn’t see any of it’ while others will say, ‘I thought I could change him or her.                                                                                                                       

In marriage, there are various character, behavior, trait that your spouse would exhibit that you never thought they could, most times they are things you dislike but other times, and they are good ones. No matter how long a couple must have dated before marriage, it’s not enough to know everything about that person and when he or she displays such character, they say stuffs like ‘ I thought I’ve knew you so well, because we dated for long, but now, it’s like am living with a stranger’.

One constant thing in life is change. 

THE POWER AND BEAUTY OF YOUTH

       

  

        Enjoy the power and beauty of youth.  You might never understand the power and beauty of your youth until they are faded, but trust me, in 20 years, you will look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how many possibilities that laid before you and how fabulous you looked.

youthfulness should be about effectiveness or should I say efficiency. How efficient do you utilize the opportunities open to you?  worrying about the future is like trying to start a car that has no engine, it is tantamount to thinking about things that might never happen.

Enjoy the power of your youth, work hard, invest your time and effort in things that makes you happy. do things that give you self satisfaction, things that please you, things that you will be remembered for.

Easy Made Cheese Cake

I know you all like cakes, here's an easy way to make Cheese cake
Ingredients:
-Digestive Biscuit
-Butter
-Cream Cheese
-Whipping Cream
-Condensed Milk

TIME MANAGEMENT: CORPS MEMBERS ON CALL

Time has always been a major factor in the activities of man, as a student and as a worker, time is never enough. Amazingly it is this same time that most people think it is in abundance for corps members making them to assert that “service period is when you have the freest time in your life”.

Time can be defined in a paradoxical way as the shortest, yet the longest, the swiftest, yet the slowest, the most divisible and the most extended, the least valued and the most regretted, without which nothing can be done, which devours everything, however small, and yet opens the life and spirit to every object, however great. Even with this, most people still find it difficult to utilize this very short and enriched period of their life effectively.

NEW YEAR, NEW RESOLUTIONS!

By John Sodipo

It can be discouraging when your list of New Year’s Resolutions is as long as your holiday shopping list. And not being able to keep your resolutions by February, March or even worse late January and having to make these same resolutions the following year can be disheartening. New Year’s resolutions are a bit like babies, they’re fun to make but extremely difficult to maintain.

However, it is important to remember that the New Year isn’t meant to serve as a catalyst for sweeping character changes. It is a time for people to reflect on their past year’s behavior and promise to make positive lifestyle changes. 

Each January, quite a lot of people commonly resolve to either losing weight, managing debt/saving money, getting a better job, getting fit/eating right, getting a better education, drinking less alcohol/quit smoking, reducing stress overall and/or at work, take a trip and volunteering to help others but only a few people actually make good on these resolutions. While about 75% of people stick to their goals for at least a week, less than half are still on target six months later.