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Diary of a Corper 3

6th May-Second Day in Camp First full day in camp was quite interesting as we sang and danced as soldiers joyfully sang barracks song and made an already tired me to forget the complaints of my thigh muscles. I woke up to see most of my roommates already dressed; i hurriedly got dressed in my white top and short, brushed my mouth and before 05:00, we were on the parade ground which ended about 10:00, ate and went back to start queues again. It was shocking to discover that there was no queue for the next stage of my registration rather it was lobbying that got people to the front. Big trouble for a quiet fellow like me. After 5hours of fruitless lobbying(...the soldier in charge didnt even look at my face for once), we had to go for evening parade. The excuse of many is "When Nigeria becomes advanced, everything will be computarised". The technology in Nigeria is already okay to stop subjecting ourselves to unnecessary stress.Please, if you are administrating anythin

Diary of a Corpers 2

5th May- First Day in Camp Sleeping in a bus isn't one of the experiences anyone could covert. I couldnt sleep for more than 1hr 30mins and so by 04:45, i was awake. Took some time to pray in the Spirit. By 05:50, we resumed our trip that started from Oyo state to Osun state to Ondo state to Edo state to Kogi state to the FCT to Nasarawa state. We were told that once we leave Nasarawa state, we will be in Plateau state, but before we entered Plateau, we found ourselves in a vast grassland and all the signposts read Kaduna state. After 4hours, we were at the camp gate where the soldiers took a pound of flesh of my body. Registrations started with several queues for the different stages and i began to see several soap operas. Dictionary defines a queue as a line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back). So a space on a que