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The NYSC Corp Member who turned a CDS Project into a Statewide Academic Competition
NYSC is an acronym for National Youth Service Corps. The NYSC scheme was created in a bid to reconstruct, reconcile and rebuild the country after the Nigerian Civil war. The unfortunate antecedents in our national history gave impetus to the establishment of the National Youth Service Corps by decree №24 of 22nd May 1973 which stated that the NYSC is being established “with a view to the proper encouragement and development of common ties among the youths of Nigeria and the promotion of national unity”.
It is a mandatory service or exercise that all Nigerian graduates must undergo. As long as you have graduated from the university, polytechnic or college of education, you are eligible to and must serve the country. This service lasts for a year and the corpers (humans who engage in this exercise) are posted to a different state in the country; other than the one they live on or originated from. For example, I am originally from Anambra state of Nigeria and currently live in Lagos state. Therefore, NYSC would post me to a completely different state. In my case, I was posted to Benue state.
Part of the drill of this compulsory national service is that the corpers have to join CDS groups. CDS stands for Community Development Service. The Community Development Service (CDS) is aimed…
