This information applies to NYSC prospective corps members in Batch A, B, and C.
The NYSC rules you must adhere to are all stated in this post to enable candidates to avoid being a victim of anything that may lead to the termination of their service.
No room for casual wears – immediately you get your camp kits, wear it, no room for causal wears.
Only your T-shirt and shorts with the tennis shoe are allowed on you.
Orientation Camp Daily Activities
- 3:00 am – Morning Bugle Blows 🎺
- 4:00 am – Morning Devotion Starts
- 6:00 am – Man O’ War Drills
- 8:00 am – Breakfast
- 9:00 am – SAED Lecture
- 2:00 pm – Lunch
- 3:00 pm – Parade Ground
- 7:00 pm – Dinner
- 8:00 pm – Social Night
- 10:00 pm – Lights Out
These activities will be repeated daily, except on Sunday.
Feeding of oneself is at your costs.
If you don’t like camp food, go to Maami market to eat but at your cost.
Stealing is prevalently prevailing at the camp.
Secure your items.
Respect and obey the soldiers at the campground.
The first stipend of ₦33,000 will be given to you in the camp, cash.
All the other ones will be through your bank.
10 Competitions to Expect at the NYSC Orientation Camp
There are different competitions that will take place in various orientation camps.
The NYSC orientation camp is always very interesting, and it’s filled with moments you will never forget in your history.
These activities engage and educate newly inducted corps members about the tenets of serving the fatherland.
Here are the top competitions to expect at NYSC camp:
- Beauty Pageant
- Cooking
- Dancing
- Debate
- Drama
- Hostel Cleanliness
- Man ‘O’ War
- Parade
- Sanitation
- Sports
10 Costly Mistakes You Shouldn’t Make in the NYSC Camp
These mistakes can get you punished, kicked out of camp, or arrested.
- Having sex.
- Don’t urinate and excrete around. Always use the bathroom.
- Fighting.
- Forged or fake documents.
- Getting drunk.
- Jumping the fence.
- Lamination of documents.
- Rape.
- Sexual harassment.
- Stealing.
Code of Conduct
During the period of orientation, every member shall:
- Attend regularly, and take part, fully in all official engagements on the field, at lectures and all places of work.
- Not leave orientation camp or absent himself from any official activity without the written consent of the state coordinator.
- Not gamble within the premises.
- Not be in possession of firearms or ammunition.
- Not smoke, chew anything whatsoever, make or answer calls, while on parade and at any other time, not smoke in a prohibited area or throw lighted cigarette butts or lighted matches about the premises carelessly.
- Not get drunk.
- Not receive visitors in the camp except on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
- Wear the various uniforms provided for the activities.
- Not keep animal pets in camp.
- Not take part in mob action.
- Not steal.
- Not take part in or organize night parties in camp without the written permission of the state coordinator.
- Not be insubordinate or rude to camp officials.
- Not be in possession of hard drugs like cocaine, Indian hemp, heroin, etc.
- Not bring vehicles or motorcycles into the orientation camp.
- Not bring forged documents for registration.
- Not address the press on any policy issue without the prior written consent of the state coordinator.
NYSC Camp Exit Letter
You can’t exit the NYSC camp without any convincing reason or official document like your marriage certificate, husband’s domicile certificate, pregnancy test result, a wedding invitation, school convocation invitation, burial to attend, a breastfeeding mother, or a medical report for health concerns.
According to NYSC, every corps member shall not leave the orientation camp or be absent from any official activity without the written consent of the state coordinator but when absent from duties on account of illness, ensure that such absences is covered by an “Excuse Duty Certificate” issued by a medical doctor then on duty at the camp.
Any corps member who leaves the camp without the permission from the state coordinator shall be tried by the camp court and, if found guilty, be liable to be decamped and sent out of camp.
You shall only be allowed to come back for service by joining the next batch for the orientation exercise.
As a married female corps member, you can go to your camp with these documents:
- Marriage certificate.
- Newspaper change of name.
- Domicile letter.
- NIN.
- Husband’s NIN or voter’s card.
- NEPA bill.
- Original WAEC result and statement of result/certificate.
- Medical fitness certificate.
- Call-up letter.
At the last point of your registration in camp, you’ll be asked if you want to stay or leave.
If you choose to leave, you’ll be given an exeat letter you will fill and submit at the appropriate quarter there in the camp.
After you have collected your kits, keep your letter safe because you’ll present it whenever you want to go back to camp.
Don’t forget to sign the book of life.
Then you can travel back to your husband house.
On the last day of the orientation exercise, if you have someone in camp that can bring your posting letter back to you home, then you don’t need go back to camp again.
Camp Advice
- If you want a good bed space and a charging space too, go very early.
- If you want to be your platoon leader, go to camp early.
- If you want to be the overall platoon commander or part of a quarter guard for swearing in, also go to camp early.
- If you want to join any of the camp groups, go early.
- If you plan to be lazy in camp, please go late.
- If you don’t want to stress yourself in camp, go late.
- If you plan to be a sweetheart in camp, then take part in various camp activities and be good at gusting ladies.
- If you plan to tarnish your image in camp, get drunk in the mammy market and start a fight.
- If you want to be a celebrity in a camp, get money, become the director of social or become a comedian with funny jokes.
- If you want to be the villain of the camp, get angry unnecessarily.
- If you want to disgrace your generation, then go to camp and get caught having sex.
- If you want to disgrace yourself at camp, buy red underwear.
