EPISODE 1
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22nd of October 2015 was a day I won’t
forget in my life. Prior to the reports and
news going nationwide that the call up
letter would be released on the 21st of
October, I put a call through to Ugo and
Dare popularly known as vision 2020. I called them to check at their offices
(since I don’t have an internet connection
here) to know if truly the call up letter
has been released. Ugo later called back
and gave a negative report. Vision also
called back and gave the same negative report and that really made me tensed. I
hardly think of anything else rather than
seeing the state I am being posted to
and let preparation begins in full.
Am sure you might be wondering who I
am. I am Ola Olowo born into a family of three, all males and also the last born of
the family. An art student, and also the
first person in my family to go for NYSC.
Being one of the guys wey sabi schools
for my department, lots of my course
mates had to call me to get the latest information about the call up letter then
I decided to check different sites to gets
latest information about it. I visited
Nairaland and I saw different post of
people also waiting for the NYSC batch B
call up letter for 2015. Then something struck my mind.
TWITTER. That’s the fastest place to get
information on anything and any latest
going all round the world. I searched for
the NYSC official twitter handled I got it,
followed the handle, and keeping tabs with all the activities going on there.
From their twitter handle, I got latest
updates on it and I never stopped
checking and refreshing the tweets on
their timeline. Nigerian students are one
of the best in the world. Come see insult upon insults. Am sure the operator of the
NYSC twitter handle must be really pissed
off. While some were asking good and
meaningful question, some were raining
curses and abuses on NYSC, comparing
the release of the NYSC call up letter with the long awaited ministerial list long ago
which was delayed by our able
president.
It was Past 3pm, something tells me to
check the twitter handle again. I picked
up my Nokia x2 palasa phone which I have been using for over 4years, (don’t
mind me, is Nigeria economy cause am)
opened the browser and straight to NYSC
handle and began to see testimonies of
some peoples saying they’ve checked and
printed their call up letter. I couldn’t believe it though and I needed to confirm
from at least 3 people before spreading
the news round to my guys who were
anxiously waiting too. After confirming
from 3 people from the handle, I decided
to call Ugo. Me: Ochuko, e don happen o
Ugo: Olowo, you better talk true because
tension wan kill me for here o
Me: sure, I have confirmed it on their
twitter account. Please check and call me
back. After dropping the call, I put a call
across to vision and iya ijo. I was feeling
uneasy and kept walking up and down
the office like a husband whose wife is
inside the labour room waiting for the
doctor’s arrival for a good news. I started navigating the quality control office, to
my office, then to the darkroom. After
waiting for like forever for Ugo’s call, I
decided to call him myself.
Me: Ugo, waiting dey worry you now? You
want make I do orientation camp for hospital
Ugo: (sighs) Olowo na Yobe ooo
To Be Continued…
