naijamini:

Can you imagine that in a country where a senator is taking millions home every month, excluding other benefits (and bribes) - a university graduate is handed less that N4,000 for any job at all. Even if they get free housing that is no excuse.

naijamini:

Can you imagine that in a country where a senator is taking millions home every month, excluding other benefits (and bribes) - a university graduate is handed less that N4,000 for any job at all. Even if they get free housing that is no excuse.
[/quote[b]The fact one is a university graduate should not gaurantee automatic high paying white collar job.
I believe your statement is a bit overstated as a good number of those graduates earn far more than N4000 when they start working full time.
Afterall one has to start from somewhere[/b]

snowdrops:

The fact one is a university graduate should not gaurantee automatic high paying white collar job.
I believe your statement is a bit overstated as a good number of those graduates earn far more than N4000 when they start working full time.
Afterall one has to start from somewhere

naijamini:

@snowdrops

I am not refering to what they make full-time or not, I am talking about the DISPARITY.

Focus dear friend, millions of Naira for one political office holder (excluding egunjes), N4,000 for a graduate - thus Nigeria is in ruins.

If you employ a graduate, especially because of his qualifications, part time or not, you cannot hand him N4,000 per month. He must really be in bad luck to accept it or HAVE NO CHOICE, like being in the NYSC! That is why you are never going to get true commitment from NYSC members.

You are not saying NYSC members are working part time and don't deserve living wages, right?

N4,000 is how many bottles of coke compared with meeting a single person's expenses for one month.

naijamini:

@snowdrops

I am not refering to what they make full-time or not, I am talking about the DISPARITY.

N4,000 is how many bottles of coke compared with meeting a single person's expenses for one month.

honeric01:

Nysc was not founded for money making so why are some comparing the pay with a full time job? Though i don't even buy the idea but it was created for selfless service to your fatherland.

honeric01:

Nysc was not founded for money making so why are some comparing the pay with a full time job? Though i don't even buy the idea but it was created for selfless service to your fatherland.

honeric01:

Nysc was not founded for money making so why are some comparing the pay with a full time job? Though i don't even buy the idea but it was created for selfless service to your fatherland.

honeric01:

They made it mandatory imo because we all know nigerians won't do anything for free, you know it and i know it, if it was volunteerily, how many do you think will serve with the way we all chase money starting from our mother's womb?

naijamini:



The incentive should be that voluntary national service is a plus when you wish to be in public office. If you checked it, a lot of those collecting millions of Naira from Abuja today "did not really" do their national service, others enjoyed doing their part.

Aloy+Emeka:

True but the govt needs to pay them enough to survive on.

naijamini:

@honeric01
Nobody is comparing it to a full time job - just that if you are going to conscript someone you shoudl take care of them, not make them slaves.


Mandatory service, especially for as long as a year, should be for building a reserve army, but we know who are afraid of such a progressive idea.

By the way, was the National Assembly founded for money-making? If not, we should just tell them to make laws by feeding on air and living in tents on the grass of the National Assembly.

honeric01:

Yes the money is small but then they should not make the pay the basis of their serving, they can't be paid money they'd survive on because we know that human want is insatiable, they have parents, don't they? so it's not the money NYSC is going to pay them that would make them survive, if they were able to pass through Nigerian school without dropping out, then you'd know that the govt can't really pay them the amount most of them would want.

U sef. How many people do you know who went thru University did so @ d expense of their parents? I know loads and loads of pple that could barely make it thru school. Not every1 is fortunate to have parents! When I was in d university, I know a girl who worked part time in Mr. Biggs just to make it through, I know another who worked at a bar. And those are the fortunate ones!

Anyway jare, are you up for Scrabble?
If you are, hit me on ISC!

Deep Soul:

U sef. How many people do you know who went thru University did so @ d expense of their parents? I know loads and loads of pple that could barely make it thru school. Not every1 is fortunate to have parents! When I was in d university, I know a girl who worked part time in Mr. Biggs just to make it through, I know another who worked at a bar. And those are the fortunate ones!

Anyway jare, are you up for Scrabble?
If you are, hit me on ISC!

honeric01:

you're still mixing up full time job with a volunteer job, they ain't the same, compare non-profit organization with NYSC and we'd debate it.

naijamini:

@honeric01
You are yet to show me the volunteer job.

honeric01:

you're still mixing up full time job with a volunteer job, they ain't the same, compare non-profit organization with NYSC and we'd debate it.

naijamini:


I already compared the NYSC to a non-profit organization ---- wait for it -----  OUR NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. Much closer to the NYSC than any private, non-profit organization you can find. Now you tell me why they get to keep millions each month and live in priviledged quarters, while doing close to nothing (okay so that's an exaggeration, sue me).

honeric01:

you must be joking, tell me you are comparing the national assembly with NYSC, one of the qualifications to work in the national assemble is NYSC so why should you compare both? why not compare the position of the president too, or maybe the position of the judges of the federation of Nigeria.

good comparison should be orphanage home, school for the blind and so on, most of these people that work there do it for the love and passion first before the pay they get, so why should corp be looking for 100k per month? i hope you know that no amount you'd give to a graduate that would dim fit and okay for our money hungry citizens. this is not a permanent job so they should cut us some slacks.

honeric01:

^^^^^^

Guy, for 'God's sake, this is not a job, it's just like a place where you go to learn about random things, that's what NYSC means, it's not anything you're making it look like, it's for people to get acquainted with places they have never been to, live with people they'd never have lived with, teach,work,train younger ones, impact what they went to school for into these young ones, it's not for money purpose so for the money to have been increased to 15k means the government of each state already know about the small pay issue.


for once, let Nigerians put passion first before pocket.

I rest my case.

ReachRich:

U need to compare the amount paid to corpers with the economic situation on ground.A corper who receives N15k/month has has to feed,pay for transport,buy clothes,buy airtime, pay for other sundry expences and probably save for the rainy day.How can one do all these with a paltry 15k?Our problem in 9ja is that there is so much money at the centre thats why u see every Tom,manliness and Harry jostling to occupy one position or the other in Abj.

oyb:

lagosians see your tax naira at work!!!

oya calling on all corpers to take on the fashola detractors