I'm just about ready to give up. Why can't anything in this country be easy for once?
I went to the NYSC office this morning to register for that godforsaken program only to be told that they couldn't accept my transcripts unless they were stamped and signed by my school.
At first I wanted to scream "What the fuck does it matter?" It's not like they're employing me or anything but then I guess some people forge their transcripts or whatever (by the way who does that? I mean really WHO does that????)
The deadline for 'Foreign Trained' graduates (ugh, why do they call it that?) is in two days and it seems very doubtful that in that time I will be able to convince my school that NYSC really doesn't have an email address that they can just send it to and so they should do the eco-unfriendly thing by mailing my transcripts to me half way around the world.
I am sure that when I do finally get them and return to the dark and smelly dungeon also known as the NYSC office, they will proceed to ask me why the school on my transcript /degree is different from the one on my student visa, and after I explain to them that I transferred in my first year because I wasn't a fan of the area's propensity for life-threatening natural disasters and being told to go back to Africa by my illiterate Floridian classmates, they will ask me to submit a hurricane trajectory report from the national hurricane centre and a letter from Barack Obama saying this is so.
I suppose I should welcome myself back home. This is after all, Nigeria, the only country that uses technology to make people's lives more difficult.
Welcome back to reality dear.
ReplyDeleteHope u sort out NYSC before deadline
Thank you!!!!
DeleteYou know i'd honestly never have believed it was possible to use technology to make people's lives more difficult until i came back to Nigeria. The most basic things are made out to be such a huge fucking deal. Asking me for original document like i supposed to be walking around with original copies of sensitive and important documents.
ReplyDeleteAll the best. I refuse to face NYSC just yet.
I know right? I keep asking myself why I'm even doing this. I think NYSC is such a colossal waste of time.
DeleteAs much as I would LOVE to diss the NYSC scheme, I have to admit it was one of the most organised institutions in Nigeria. You had since December to sort this out but you chilled for the last few days of registration.
ReplyDeleteForeign trained graduates were given preferential treatments while Nigerians that hustled here had to be registered by December and have no idea which part of Nigeria they would be thrown into. You guys just select.
And you can't blame bureaucracy, foreign Universities also give a hard time if an alphabet in your lengthy African name was omitted on the transcript. You could wait for the next batch.
Yes I had time to sort it out but NYSC has also had at least twenty years to come up with lots of different methods for registering students. At this point, students shouldn't have to come all the way back to Nigeria to register for NYSC, we should be able to just do it at the Nigerian embassy in whatever country we're in. They should be able to have people register online or by email or whatever. To still do things in this manner is just ridiculous.
DeleteIm very glad that you are over it now !
ReplyDeleteThanks!! ^_^
DeleteI hope you get things sorted out, sha. And we wonder why our youth don't jump to die for their countries. smh.
ReplyDeleteNo wahala. I'm just going to wait until the next batch.
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