10 Important Things You Should Take to NYSC Camp

March 15, 2018

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Here are very necessary requirements that are needed at NYSC camp. You need to ensure that all these things are intact as they’ll be used for registration at the NYSC camp. 10 Official NYSC Camp Registration Requirements: 1. Registration Documents: Foreign graduates should take along important registration documents used in registering at Abuja. 2. Call Up Letter: This …

10 Important Things You Should Take to NYSC Camp

Here are very necessary requirements that are needed at NYSC camp. You need to ensure that all these things are intact as they’ll be used for registration at the NYSC camp.

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10 Official NYSC Camp Registration Requirements:

1. Registration Documents:

Foreign graduates should take along important registration documents used in registering at Abuja.

2. Call Up Letter:

This is a vital part of camp registration and the only evidence that you are a prospective corps member (colloq. Corper, or Otondo) and you are not impersonating anyone. This will be taken from and not returned to you. So if at all you even forget you luggage (lol) never forget this.

Tip: DO NOT LAMINATE IT! And keep it like its your life. I know someone who was sent back because she forgot hers. Also someone who had to beg and beg before his letter was collected because he laminated his own copy. So please avoid all these stress and make enough copies of this letter.

3. Final Year Student Identity CARD

4. Passport Photographs

This is very important. Take as many as you can, about 20 in red backgrounds. You would need them at every registration point mostly. Then those of you who would likely redeploy or join one group or the other in camp, you would need more than others.

5. Notification/Statement of Result from School

6. Photocopies Of All Your Documents:

Now make about 5-10 copies of every document required. There would be photocopiers in camp at mammy market but trust me, it is double the price and it saves time.

Tip: The forms that will be handed to you are very easy to fill. Attach your passport where necessary and fill them correctly. After your registration, you will be issued with your State Code Number. This will be like your PIN throughout your Service Year.

7. Stationery: Pen, Paper, Gum, Tippex.

Yeah this saves time and lots of unnecessary begging.

Tip: Some camps do seize staplers at the gate during check-in. So do not forget to include pins in your stapler if you are taking that along.

Tip: After getting your NYSC State Code Number, you can proceed to claim your NYSC Kit and Mattress after which you can proceed to get a Room. After you have gotten your kit and secured a place in the hostels, you can settle down and you are good to go to start the Military parades.

8. Certificates / Licenses:

For Doctors, Pharmacists, Nurses & Lab Scientists, take along your proof of certification.

Now, Your NYSC kit should contain: 1 NYSC Crested Vest, A pair of Khaki Trousers, Cap and Jacket, 2 White T-shirts, 2 Pairs of Knickers, 2 pairs of green-stripped Stockings, A Pair of Orange Jungle Boots and One Pair of White Converse. A “Belt” is also included.

Daily Needs:

9. Round-Necked White T-Shirts:

This is an essential outfit in camp in fact in most camps this is the only allowed cloth to be worn throughout your 3 weeks. Even to church, you might not be allowed to wear colored cloths.

You would be given 2 pairs of white t-shirts at camp to just fulfill all righteousness which surely would never be your size especially our very slim and small otondo in size . So you can bring extra pairs (6). Why? Because you probably wont have time to wash during the week after being stressed out from the parades and Man-O-War drills.

Tip: Do not carry more than 2 pairs of colored clothes because you wont need it.

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10. White Shorts:

I beg you please do bring yours. you would also be given 2 pairs of shorts which are really poor in material. They tear easily and it can be annoying. So my dear Otondos bring like 4 pairs of shorts. Trust me also you wont like to wash everyday, so bring enough to last you like 3 days so that you wont be stranded.

Also See:

List of NYSC Orientation Camps and Their Addresses

NYSC Mobilization Timetable