Design And Implementation Of NYSC Orientation Camp Information System

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. Chapter two gives a review of the related literature.
Chapter three covers the methodology, data collection, analysis
of existing system, limitation of the existing system, system
design, the database design, system flowchart and the top down
design. Chapter four covers implementation, testing and
integration. Chapter five gives the summary, limitations of the
project, recommendation, bill of engineering measurement and
evaluation (BEME) and conclusion.