Nigerian Times

Martins chibuikem Challenges and Trials of a Nigerian NYSC Member As I held my call up National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) letter in my hand, I wondered what it would be like to finally go for youth service. Looking back at all that I have been through in school including the gruel some 2 years I had to wait to be finally mobilized for youth service, I wondered if the wait was worth it. As a graduate in Nigeria, if you don’t serve you will definitely find it hard to get job. So it is as important as your university degree it self. The National Youth Service Corps is a mandatory one year program in which graduates from different schools serve the nation for one year in a place where they will be posted. They say its voluntary but it is what we call optionally compulsory. The government has made it such that if you don’t go for service, you may not be able to find a job because every potential employer will require you to present your discharge certificate; a certificate given to you a...

Sam Loco Efe The famous Nollywood actor, Sam Loco Efe has been reported dead in his hotel room Sunday on location in Owerri, Imo State. He is regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time in Nigeria since he started acting in the early 1960s. He excelled in all the stages of his acting career in theatre, television and cinema. And he was known for acting excellently in English and the major local dialects in the most populous country in Africa, receiving many awards over the decades. May his soul rest in peace. The following is the biography of Sam Loco Efe from Edo World Sam Loco Efe is one of the most talented actors of contemporary Nigerian theatre. He has for many years distinguished himself as a rare talent for both Television (TV) and stage drama. I am Sam Loco from Benin in Edo State. Many people misplace my surname for a Delta man. Efe is a Benin name although the Urhobo people popularized it. Efe means Wealth in Benin as it also means in Urhobo but it means Cloth in Ibo. ...