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NYSC PPA – Place of Primary Assignment

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:05:46 +0000

PPA is the acronym for Place of Primary Assignment. The point where you receive your letter to your place is actually the beginning of your service year. The posting letters are given out after the passing out parade on the last day of camp. It is at this point your plans for the next eleven months start trotting the open fields of your mind.

Places of primary assignments range from schools to local government offices, from large multinationals to government parastatals, from small companies to personal companies. Almost anywhere can be a primary assignment. You’d be expected to work your socks off, but never transcend or descend into slavery.

Corps members are expected to report to their duty posts, and commence work ASAP. They must be accepted at these places for duty to commence. In any contrary case, the corps member is re-posted by NYSC. If the corps member has a letter from a company, he/she could be posted there. There’s a deadline for acceptance. So this has to be done a little pronto.

You’ll be required to clear monthly. The clearance indicates you’ve worked for the month and are entitled to the rather meagre stipend from NYSC. It is your boss at your post that will be responsible for issuing this clearance. It is a world of problems if you miss clearance for a month, don’t miss it.

The programme is for eleven months and not a full calendar year. Passing-out is usually about 3 weeks before the one year date expires. To exemplify the latter sentence, if you arrived camp in July 2009, you’d be looking at passing-out in June 2010.

Stop Posting Corps Members to Troubled Spots – FG tells NYSC

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:30:47 +0000

The President has ordered coordinators of NYSC not to post corps members to troubled spots in their states to ensure their safety. The Director-General of NYSC Brig-Gen Muharazu Tsiga, disclosed this on Monday when he addressed corps members of the 2009 Batch ‘B’ (stream 2) at the Orientation Camp in Kwara State. He said it was in compliance with the instruction of the President that the security of corps members should not be toyed with thenceforth.

The DG further urged NYSC state coordinators to relocate corps members from where there were threats to their lives and ensure that they did not post them back to such places until the threats had been removed. He said that he had discussed the security of the corps members with security agencies in some states, adding he would also so in the others.

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admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:38:16 +0000

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