CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

The national youth service corps (NYSC) is an organization set

by the Nigerian government to involve the country’s graduates in

the development of 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 corps 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 youth appreciate

other ethnic groups. There is an orientation period of

approximately three weeks spent in a camp away from family and

friends. After the orientation process corps members are posted

to the areas of primary assignment. There is also a passing out

ceremony at the end of the year. The program has also helped in

creating entry-level jobs for a lot of Nigerian youths. An NYSC

forum dedicated to NYSC members was recently built to bridge

the gap amongst members serving across Nigeria and also

serves as an avenue for corps members to share job information

and career resources as well as get loans from the national

directorates of employment.

1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS

The NYSC is faced with the following problems due to their

manual method of handling information:

 Poor handling of corps members’ information

 Time wastage in searching for information

 Data redundancy

1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

The objectives of this project are as follows:

 To design an information system that makes data access

easy for corps members.

 To design a system that can automatically post corps

members to their areas of primary assignment.

 To design a system that can help the NYSC management to

supervise corps members.

1.4 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY

The good reason why this project is done is to provide an efficient

method of handling corps members’ data at the orientation.

1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This project covers the design and implementation of

information system for the NYSC orientation camp (A case study

of Awgu)

I.6 PROJECT REPORT ORGANIZATION

The project is organized as follows:

Chapter one of this project reports gives the detailed introduction

of the project.