I was nicknamed Senior ‘corper’ during NYSC orientation – 60-year-old US-based Nigerian (Punch)

What motivated you to return to Nigeria for the national youth service?

For a long time, I had wanted to go for national youth service. Initially, I felt that I was too old to participate in the scheme. I spent a lot of time thinking about it. At a point, I decided that I could do it, but I really could not find the time.

Later I found out that the law stipulated that if one obtained his first degree before the age of 30, then one was required to participate in the scheme.

I decided to go ahead and do it for two reasons. First, I was curious. This was because I had heard so much about the National Youth Service Corps. Since I did not attend school in Nigeria, I wanted to experience it. Read more

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