ABSTRACT
This project work is aimed at documenting the NYSC pet project information for the purpose of future record and access. Where by each new
NYSC crop member can review any past work done by other past crops members. Nigerian University students are sent on a one year National
youth service corps are their graduation from the university. The list forwarded by universities to NYSC Headquarter is registered for the purpose
of sending call-up letter to the students and thereafter, does a presentable hand work project to be submitted to the committee, this research is
to design and implement an automated system for NYSC pet project registration. This will be of immense benefit to the administrators ofthe NYSC
program as it will be easier to sort out list from a particular university. Also, the system will enable proper documentation of graduates that
participated in NYSC pet project program in a given year. The implementation of the automated system was carried out using Visual Basic and
MS Access.
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The NYSC pet project is and annual program organized by the NYSC among the corps members of each service year. A project that
will be done and presented by each and every respective person or group of the NYSC corps members, as a community development
service (CDS) project to that community project. The realities of today requires that Corps Members MUST acquire peculiar skills like
Innovation, stakeholder analysis, fund raising, etc through active use of your weekly 8 hours for Personal Community Development
Project. This will serve as a service learning platform for honing your skills and establishing your interest in a particular field.The
Community Development Service (CDS) is aimed at harnessing the skills, creativity and innovativeness of Corps members. Corps members
are expected to identified the needs of their host communities and mobilise members of their host communities to embark on the
projects.
Through this programme, many Corps members were able to construct bridges, health care centres, classroom blocks, market stalls,
culverts etc. they had also carried out projects like HIV sensitization, adult literacy campaign, extra-mural classes for students, road safety
campaign etc. Corps members participate actively in the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) through the War Against Poverty (WAP) programme of the scheme.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is an organization set up by the Nigerian government to involve the country’s graduates in
the developmentof the country. There is no military conscription in Nigeria, but since 1973 graduates of universities and later Polytechnics
have been required to take part in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) program for one year.This is known as national service
year.”Corp” members are posted to cities far from their city of origin. They are expected to mix with people of other tribes, social and family
backgrounds, to learn the culture of the indigenes in the place they are posted to. This action is aimed to bring about unity in the country
and to help youths appreciate other ethnic groups.There is an “Orientation” period of approximately three weeks spent in a camp away
from family and friends. There is also a “passing out ceremony”at the end of the year and primary assignment followed by one month of
vacation.
The program has also helped in creating entry level jobs for a lot of Nigerian youth. An NYSC forum dedicated to the NYSC members was
recently built to bridge the gap amongst members serving across Nigeria and also an avenue for coppers to share job information and
career resources as well asgetting loans from the National Directorate of Employment.
Looking at Nigerian, NYSC was created to foster unity among Nigeria’sabout 250 ethnic groups and to create a sense of nationhood and
selflessservice among young people. There use to be two NYSC batches, namely batch A and batch B. However, with so many graduates
waiting for NYSCcall up, NYSC now have three batches, batch A, batch B, and batch C.The NYSC programmes runs for about 12 months
and during that period,graduates of Universities and Polytechnic are deployed to serve in states that are not their state of origin.