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Reminds me of my own ordeal . Went to this my barbers shop to cut my hair. I stopped keeping afro for almost 2 years, so I was just on skin fade that grew after 3 weeks. As I reach, my barber dey on person head already but since I needed to cut it fast so I could drop my brother in school. I sat on the empty chair, I usually don't tell my barber what to barb me, he just uses his intiative and maintains the current style. Na so this young chap, come tie me cloth, carry clipper.... My God, baba don give me that style Wey bad "go to school" when I dey follow my old boy go barber that year, the pain I just dey endure make e no be say I go come dey cry like pikin for small barber hand. Las, Las, as e finish, I dey observe my head for mirror, Ich bin for me oh . My original barber sef come look the head sef follow pity me. Na so I tell am to just try blend everything.
Anyways, the young barber gave me motivation, I bought a mirror and sent my clipper blades for sharpening, ever since then, I dey cut my hair by myself.

realestniggah:
Watch more that 50mill will be allocated to clear it very soon..

You oversabi the country @realestniggah. Always embezzling at any small chance

Putin007:
conscription ? When 100k plus dey apply for this job

Comrade Putin, e be like say the conscription dey fear you??

Your bank of wisdom experience is really vast brother. Indeed, the higher powers had their sight for you set on something else. Nevertheless, your deeds will make you a Field Marshall in your current endeavor. This one really sunk deep, "Don't burn the bridges".

God bless the Marshall Odimbannamdi
God bless NLanders and all the Airborne's
May We See Peace Gentleman

odimbannamdi:
Gentlemen,

Its been a while I commented here. I have been on the sidelines reading the interesting discourse and banters going on since registration began. It is impressive to see that our morale is as high as ever.

In my usual attitude of giving back to Nairaland, the community that has helped me achieve most of my professional/career feats, I want to drop a few nuggets culled from my attendance of the SSC course 44 and course 45 screening exercise.

1. Don’t burn those bridges: With the registration period over, a lot of lobbying is going on at the higher echelon and big men will assure candidates of making the first shortlistment. I repeat, even if your godfather is the COAS, don’t get your hopes overly high. It is not 100% sure for anybody. Go on and pursue the goals of your current career path, while you wait/hope for the best.

Apply for those other jobs, keep being serious with your present employment, write that certification exam, apply for that study program, pick that postgraduate form.

The first shortlistment for 2016 came out the week I was to purchase the Unilag postgraduate form, which happened to be last week the form would be on sale. When I saw my name in the list, I didn’t even bother buying the form anymore as I was so sure of making final list. But alas, I didn’t get in, and I also didn’t make that educational advancement I would have loved as well. I lost out on both ends

2. It is better to be overqualified: This is to our DSSC aspirants, most especially. Get those extra certifications, whether they were requested for or not, and as long as they are relevant to your course. The competition for DSSC is fierce and you need all the leverage that you can get

3. You are a soldier. Zero your mind: Whether you get in via DSSC or SSC, or you are a male or female, you are first a soldier before anything else. Insurgency, violence and terrorism is not stopping anytime soon. Read the news. So zero your mind and be ready for the worst as you embark on this journey

4. ion is not enough. Is this really your calling?: Everybody attributes their interest in the Army to ion. Even I did. But trust me, it takes more than ion. It also involves it being God’s ultimate plan for you.

As you speak to the God of your realization regarding this journey every morning, appeal to Him to make it come to IF it is His perfect will for you. Otherwise, pray that it doesn’t work out and that He gives you the fortitude to move on, for your own sake and those of your loved ones. Apologies if I sound religious or sanctimonious, it just that I learnt a lot on this journey.

Let me indulge us

In 2016, I was evicted for having a flat foot, shortsightedness in my right eye and umbilical hernia. Read details here: https://nairaland.macsoftware.info/3319739/nairalanders-experience-army-ssc-course. Obviously, two of these defects are irreparable and a layman (and maybe a spiritual discerning eye) would have dismissed my military ambition based on them. But I thought they were just obstacles that I could surmount. So, in December 2017, under the encouragement of explosiveskull (brother, how have you been?) I went under the knife and repaired my umbilical hernia. I was ready for course 45.

In October or so, in 2018, course 45 form came out and I applied again. This time, I had very senior men strategically stationed to help me pull through. They all gave unflinching assurances of assistance. There were all indications that I was going to get in. You guys needed to see me at the airport, about to embark on the journey from Lagos to Abuja. My morale was roof-breaking. g was done at MS office, Abuja. Soldiers just dey pay me compliments as they thought I was a young officer, with my well-shaved face. From Abuja, I took off to NDA to report with very high morale!!

Barely 3 days into the screening exercise, on the night of the day we wrote our exam at Command Secondary School, NDA, I encountered a mysterious catastrophe.

We were on the parade ground, in the bone-chilling cold till around 11pm or so when we began filing up according to our states to go back to our hostels. Sergeant Dauda then ordered us to look around and pick up any dirt on the parade ground and dispose it off. Being from Abia state, Adamawa happened to be closest to us. A candidate from Adamawa state then picked up a PET bottle, and in a bid to dispose it off, he flung it towards me and it went straight into my left eye – my good eye.

The force was so much that I lost vision in the eye immediately. My life replayed before me in split seconds and I saw my loving family and fiancée, and colleagues at the office. I wondered how I was going to face them back home with one eye. I screamed and began begging them to take me to MRS, but the soldiers refused that an officer must sign for me to go for treatment. Sgt. Dauda thought I was pranking. He even gave me a dirty slap across my face for shouting, but when light was shone on the eye and saw it, he shouted. Two of my good friends had to hold me by the hand and led me back to the hostel as I am severely short-sighted in my right eye. I refused to look in the mirror at the hostel coz I knew the sight would haunt me forever. But people who saw the eye said my eyeball rescinded and my conjunctiva was blood red and sunken

That night, I couldn’t sleep. I wept like a baby. The Army dream didn’t matter to me anymore. I just wanted my vision back.

It was until the next morning I began to see little flickers of light. But I had now become acutely short-sighted in the affected eye because of what I later discovered to be an inflammation of my optic nerve due to the blunt trauma I suffered, plus my pupil was severely dilated that I was very photo-sensitive. My friend had to give me his sun-shades to protect the eye from light. I was in excruciating pain. For those of us who began course 45 screening from day 1, you will a big guy that wore dark shades the morning we began medicals. That was me.

So that morning we began medical screening and we were taken to Afaka in that long bus. Godfather was on ground to waive my flatfoot and blood pressure (which had now developed because of the incident). But they gave me some drugs for my eye and directed me to return the next day so that they will conduct screening on both eyes

The next morning, there was little to no improvement in the eye, plus I was now feeling very sick because of the pain I was ing through. I just couldn’t go on with exercise anymore. I needed to treat my eye before I lose it completely. So I dropped a note for the board that morning, carried my kaya and left NDA by 5am. I first went to National eye centre or so at NDA by, from there I returned to Lagos. Senior men are still angry with me, that I am a runaway cadet…lol.

I suffered that period and spent a lot of money treating the eye. The eye has improved, but it is a little smaller than the other one now; the pupil is still dilated, and I have to wear sunglasses when the sun is scorching and I occasionally see flashes of light from the corner of my eye. The eye consultant said I could be at risk of retinal detachment, but I pray it doesn’t deteriorate to that level. Amen.

In retrospect now, I think the Military wasn’t my calling at all. I was just being desperate, under the guise of ion, even though I was not doing badly in my civilian life. God placed those physical impediments (flatfoot and shortsightedness) to deter me from the career path, but I was very hellbent so He let that very mysterious incident happen to me. The question I kept asking myself was

- Why didnt that bottle hit me on the chin or forehead or nose or just somewhere else? It went straaaaaight into my eye. My eyelid wasn’t scratched one bit. Just straight in my eye
- Why did that incident happen a night to medical and not the next day so that I would at least do my eye test and move on?
- Why didn’t the bottle hit me in my already weak eye (right eye) so that the eye test would be done on the good eye and it will be assumed that I am shortsighted in my right eye because of the trauma?

Many many questions rampaging in my mind! But I suspect that if that incident hadn’t happen, I would have encountered a worse one during training and maybe on the job itself.

Before now, I doubt I ever pursued an ambition as resolutely as I pursued the Army ambition. I was not even up to the minimum age when i applied in 2016. For 5years of my life, I lived, breathed, dreamt the dream. I don’t exactly have regrets, I just feel sad that it ended the way it did.

In all, I have come to appreciate my life more.

Again, I apologize if I scared anyone. That wasn’t the intent of this tip. The aim is for you to do a lot of soul-searching as you embark on this journey

5. Move on. It is not the end of the world for you: In the next couple of weeks and months, the Army shortlistment will shatter a lot of hearts. The heartbreak will be worse than the one your first girl/boyfriend gave you, especially if you reached the final stage of the interview with high hopes but did not make final shortlistment. But try to move on, It is not the end of the world. Better things await you.

Finally, as I drop my pen, I want to render a heartfelt appreciation to Ugo4u. The benevolence of this young man transcends beyond the posts he makes here. His nature is just kind-hearted. I was stressed when I got into Kaduna, and he harboured me for a few hours. That evening, we even went to town to photocopy my documents before I entered NDA. Bro, I saw the sparkle in your eyes as you bade me farewell just when I boarded that bus to NDA. How you wished I got in. I apologize for not living up to your expectations, bro. The higher powers didn’t want me to. Please relay my regards to mumsy.

PS: I didn’t apply for course 46. The Army dream is now dead and buried. We have dreamt new dreams and we are now chasing them. For as many that applied, I wish you what I would have wished myself. For those who will eventually get in, I earnest pray that God preserves your life as you navigate through the uncertainties of this career.

Amen.

May your days be long Field Marshall Ugo4u

ugo4u:
On the height issue it's just ing sense and backing it up with prayers, that is if you don't have a godfather because I know an officer in the Air force base Emene, that is almost a dwarf (as in the guy short die) also some years ago a young chap from Zaria was disqualified because of his age, he reported to the emir of Zazzau and the man called the then commandant and told him that he the emir has added height for the candidate, the commandant had no option than to accept him today he is an officer.
In otherwords, he should shoot his shot his got nothing to loose as his height is no fault of his. But my advice is on getting to the person incharge implore the cannons of logic, what do I mean by that? Use Argumentum ad populum( Appeal to his emotions) the person is a Human being he might consider you. It happened in course 45 a candidate found favour in one of the medical guys despite being shortsighted. You never can tell what happens when you try; not all closed doors are locked, PUSH

shobroy10:

Omo during January screening one cadet do us hiskanchi one night like that. Wont 4get his words. He was like candidate candidate u bastards think u are here to make noise ba. A mad man bleeped ur mother to give birth to u and that's why u are here and u think u can be doing anyhow. And lot more ......

If SSC go Afaka problem go dey oooo cos guyz go burst

E be like say this Afaka na capital to buy and serve job? Cadets chawutsing Field Marshall own .

NNAMDIII:
they'll check if there's an arc on your foot,if you don't have it that means you have flatfoot and you won't be able to wear boot for long

Just being curious, please how do they check for this?

iamswish:
Here’s what I know about the medicals, talking from my experience as a recruitment official last year.
1) Have a good sight(long sightedness)
2) Don’t be flat footed
3) Have a broad chest
4) Asthmatic patient will not be allowed
5) Measure the required height
6) Be able to run 3.5km under 10/15minutes(for guys) unless they’ll close the gate and you wouldn’t be able to enter, please for this part don’t eat heavily or take drugs like tramadol because the one I was a part of as an official some persons died. So start training.
7) Have a good dentition
Your navel must be inside(not having umbilical hernia)
9) You must not have pile disease, Just so you know you all would be naked in the hospital room and you’ll have to bend down opening your anus and coughing at the same time for them to confirm if there’s any pile.
Confirm that all your documents are intact. A single mistake in DOB can screen you out. Feel free to ask questions if you wish. Regards!

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sikowitz17:
we go again brother....this is our time.. Lol they said their father has cardiomegaly...the guy that did my chest xray was so careless..
God knows best..don't worry this time we would sing victory songs...after 9 months, morale go high

This guy don kill me with laff, you mean say their father come for the screening. Let's be guided

Oga, wetin Ighalo do you?

chigoziri2403:
He made a big mistake in coming back, always leave when the ovation is loudest. Ask ighalo

mvem:
that place is jakana about 40kms to Maiduguri...open desert , what are you to raze down there ?....community there is almost non-existent bacause of the insurgency. They were attacked by a fighting force(bokoharam) that do have a camp, they don't go and disappear in a community.....dont compare a war theatre(war front) with the criminals in the community ...dont compare the two

Let's not be quick to pick sides and tag one "criminal" and the other "war artists". You just mentioned that BH has a camp, so wouldn't it be morally justified if they went in to raze their camps. By the way, where do they get all the population during elections despite the open desert

cutedharmee:

Wehrey just two soldiers u said ...if i tell u what's on ma mind eeehn walahi u'll jus decide to go hang yourself on ur own

The headline said two

10mobile:
Although it is highly condemnable for anyone to kill army personnel, let the world take note of this: Many soldiers have been killed in the North-East (many of them from the South), but no northern community was razed. It is clear that a particular part of the country is always getting targeted. Why should you raze down a whole community (killing 1000s of innocent people and destroying their means of livelihood) just because of what a few criminals must have done? And why don't you spread the treatment if indeed you think it's right? This is the second time this is happening in one state that produced the most considerate but most attacked president of Nigeria ever. Why

It's a pity that the Army gets to throw her weight down south over the killing of just two personels (No disrespect to the dead and no excuses for the wrong deeds committed), whereas they've lost thousands of personels up North and no community ever gets razed. A few days ago, high ranking officers were ambushed and killed but no house has been razed not to mention community. This is just so wrong. What happened to us Nigeria

Where could one sign up for this offer. This is serious

Dianna12:
Has the WhatsApp group been formed

Yes it has. https:///chat.whatsappcom/JSpfnqdTcUZB8pTA7yEqee

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GinaU:
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Yes, its Lagos

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FTC finally

Serves that white dude right, no mess with Naija boy.

Mr. Oga don't you think before you start typing. Another man stood in the gap trying to wage and win a war for our sakes and this is what you have to say
Human lives matter.

heendrix:
I love foolish people getting into the army atleast boko haram would help us eradicate them. so you mean after series of injuries you still went back to the dang battle field

thanks man thanks for doing the society good

I swear my guy.

Spar7tan:
Dem wear d jersey for I'm neck, no be him wear am.

nawtyme:


Modified... I think Nigerian army should build a viewing center in kodunga. I will like to watch Barca vs Chelsea there while having monkey meat peppersoup and chilled Hero.

You sabi the groove. WehDoneSir!!!

Can't you see the names.

Absuchat:
Why always Igbos?

A tribe worthy of envy (especially from guys from the dirt republic of Yoruba)

Dude is far from free. Clifford has something else waiting for you.

What else do you expect when they enroll into the police force due to unemployment as last resort? They are far from being motivated for the job at hand. We need folks who know and understand what they're g up for.

This is really getting out of hand. For crying out loud, I think it's high time everyone gets a gun. Could you imagine such wickedness, and then the President wouldn't even pay the people of Benue a condolence visit but rather wait on the elder statesmen to come to Aso Rock. Nigerian lives really matter. This man has no conscience, if it were IPOB he'd call an army invasion, now he's sitting quietly and saying nothing.
#NigerianLivesMatters

With the rate they're mes in La Liga, Ororo dey find new business.

NwaChibuzor504:
That mans not hot song is an overhyped piece of _shit

Abeg go sing your own.

She was the most disliked apprentice on the Apprentice Season 1. Made a brother lose the finals.

NwaChibuzor:
That woman is not serious at all. Instead of her to calculate her labour week and get itted in a hospital shes there giving birth in a plaza. Also she is very foolish. During hard times like this, she is supposed to lock up and avoid pregnancy. Her mates are accumulating money shes there accumulating sp**m. Now I wonder what shes going to feed that poor child after weaning it. Maybe na stone she go give am chop.

Don't you think it came earlier than projected? Notwithstanding, you have no right to talk thrash. Have you ever fed her before? Are you God?? Wisdom thinks before she speaks.