The compulsory National Youth Civil Service programme is on. For diasporans, it basically means that for one year, the country owns you. The Federal government determines where you live, when you sleep and wake, dictates what you do throughout camp- think exercise and being subjected to bad food, but the trade-off is, they pay you for your service, even if you spent the entire year doing nothing, really.

Because Nigerians are divided into two broad categories: ajebuta and ajekpako, there are usually sob stories from the former. We have two hilarious ones from Twitter to make your Friday evening.

Enjoy:

NYSC Camp Log: Day 1. Entry 1:
Wetin be this??? I don die.

— Big Daddy Gersh (@__gershom) November 22, 2017

Day 2. Entry 4:
This is the first & last time you will see a photo of me in NYSC gear. Photo credit: @TheOgenna pic.twitter.com/yjDj8PV4R9

— Big Daddy Gersh (@__gershom) November 23, 2017

Day 2. Entry 5:
I just paid N350 for a 50cl bottle of Lucozade boost. Meanwhile to faint is free oh.

— Big Daddy Gersh (@__gershom) November 23, 2017

Day 2. Entry 7:
I witnessed them have to teach a university graduate where her left and right is. Repeatedly. pic.twitter.com/UywuUHUT8M

— Big Daddy Gersh (@__gershom) November 23, 2017

Day 3. Entry 3:
They stole the water from my buckets.

— Big Daddy Gersh (@__gershom) November 24, 2017

Day 3. Entry 4:
They stole my buckets.

— Big Daddy Gersh (@__gershom) November 24, 2017

There was some mild beef between private and public school students but nobody looked at my side because apparently "I'm too razz to be foreign".?

They found out towards the end of camp that I actually lived abroad & confessed they assumed I went to Kwasu ?

— Nana (@AishaSalaudeen) November 23, 2017

 

*I’m not crying* ???