ABDU GUSAU POLYTECHNIC TALATA MAFARA

ZAMFARA STATE
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY.

NDII COMPUTER SCIENCE

COMPILED
BY

YAKUBU OMAYOZA FATIMAT 1707231137

GADDAFI UMAR MAFARA 1707231136

TOPIC

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN

N.Y.S.C POSTING SYSTEM

UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF DR. SAMAILA MUSA

OCTOBER, 2019.

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INTRODUCTION

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is an organization set up 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."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 corpers to
share job information and career resources as well as getting loans from the
National Directorate Of Employment.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Nigerian universities and polytechnics are presently producing thousands of

graduates every year. After graduation, most students waste extra year before they
go for service. NYSC presently using manual system in their data processing; this
involves the use of people, pens and papers in records keeping. This method of
data processing reveals a number of problems which includes:

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  Records to be kept in are often too large, diversified and complex to be
processed manually.
 Most often some names are omitted as a result of manual processing
 Statistics of yearly NYSC members are hardly correct as a result of manual
calculations
 Students are made to contend with missing their service year as a result of
no call-up letter.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objective of this project is to:

1) Design and implement a central database system that would serve as

NYSC database, which will contain information of all the graduates that
are waiting for national youth service corps.
2) To generate students call up letters.
3) To efficiently and effectively post qualified students.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The research work will cover among other things:

1. NYSC Registration
2. Call up Letters
3. Analysis on population of the students for NYSC posting.
Limitations
During the design of this work, much finance was required and owing to the
financial meltdown globally, the research was limited by finance and hence
concentrated on the available materials within the locality.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This study will in many ways promote good management in NYSC orientation
agency. The managerial approach to NYSC registration will be automated making
information processing and decision making easy. Also, this study will help the
institutions to achieve the following:

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1. Have a database of all the NYSC coppers both present and the past
2. Issue call-up letters to students
Maintain a high level secured database

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 LITERATURE REVIEW

Review of Databases management system

A Database Management System (DBMS) is a software package with computer

programs that control the creation, maintenance, and the use of a database, Codd,
E.F. (1970). It allows organizations to conveniently develop databases for various
applications by database administrators (DBAs) and other specialists. A database
is an integrated collection of data records, files, and other database objects needed
by an application. A DBMS allows different user application programs to
concurrently access the same database. DBMSs may use a variety of database
models, such as the relational model or object model, to conveniently describe and
support applications. It typically supports query languages, which are in fact high-
level programming languages, dedicated database languages that considerably
simplify writing database application programs. Database languages also simplify
the database organization as well as retrieving and presenting information from it.
A DBMS provides facilities for controlling data access, enforcing data integrity,
managing concurrency control, recovering the database after failures and restoring
it from backup files, as well as maintaining database security Codd, E.F. (1970).

Community Development Service, NYSC CDS:

CDS is at the core of the NYSC scheme, each corps member is expected to belong
to an NYSC CD group. During CD, NYSC corps members use their skills in selfless
service of communities in which they are deployed, Quartet, (1973).
NYSC corps members usually focus their CDS on some challenging issues in their
community of deployment some include Adult literacy; Charity visits to hospitals,
prisons, old people’s homes and children homes; Sanitation;
construction/provision of basic infrastructure; and so on.

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Passing out ceremony:
Passing out ceremony is the last stage of the NYSC scheme. This consists of one
or two weeks of events, which ends with a passing out parade. Events usually take
the format of lectures on some topics similar to the one at the NYSC orientation
camps but focus is on preparing NYSC corps members for the challenges they will
face in Nigeria.

Lectures focus on issues like NAPEP, NDE, Self-employment, Entrepreneurship,

preparing winning CVs/resumes, Tips on Job interviews, and such related topics.
NYSC secretariats use this period to study experiences of corps members with the
scheme.
NYSC corps members (mostly those posted in state capitals) also practice for the
passing out parade during this period. After passing out parade, NYSC discharge
certificate is issued to successful corps member. For all successful NYSC corps
members a chapter has just ended and a new chapter is about to begin.

Challenges facing NYSC

However, NYSC currently face many challenges, some of which include

underfunding, large number of graduates above what was anticipated by
founders of the programme, and rejection of NYSC corps members on primary
assignment.
The biggest challenge for NYSC today is what happens to the thousands of
graduates that pass out of NYSC programme each year. It is not right for
government to allow those who have served this country meritoriously to languish
in the hopeless job markets of Nigeria.
The federal government should create social welfare schemes for passed-out
NYSC corps members, and pay current corps members even better allowances.
NYSC should also be restructured to reflect today’s reality.

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METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION

There are two main sources of data collection in carrying out this study, information
was basically obtained from the two sources namely: -

(a) Primary source

(b) Secondary source

Primary Source

Primary source refers to the sources of collecting original data in which the
researcher made use of empirical approach such as personal interview and
questionnaires.

Secondary Source

The need for the secondary sources of data for this kind of project cannot
be over emphasized. The secondary data were obtained by the researcher from
magazines, Journal, Internet and Library source.

THE PRESENT PROCEDURE

All candidates due for NYSC programme can do their registration manually and
online This we believe will reduce the cumbersome nature of registrations at NYSC
orientation camps. However, note that some form of registration may be done in
camp so candidates go to the NYSC orientation camp with your full credentials.
Foreign based candidates must visit NYSC Headquarters at Abuja personally for
registration. With an eNYSC scratch card priced at N250 prospective NYSC corps
members can gain access to the authorized NYSC pre-registration websites. You
will need the callup number on the NYSC preliminary list for the online registration.
The Prelim List can be viewed online.

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NYSC Batch C 2010, Batch A, 2011 and Batch B, 2010 are currently on primary
assignment. The next batch due for service is NYSC Batch B, 2011 and will be
going for camping from July 5, 2011.

Pre-registration for NYSC orientation can be done on the internet. You will need
your call up number from the NYSC preliminary list to do the online registration.

WEAKNESS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM

Manual method of data processing can affect the effectiveness of any

process. Below are some of the weaknesses of manual data processing.

1) Delay in processing information

2) Redundancy at work
3) Loss of vital documents as the filing system is manual
4) Delay in posting corps members
BENEFITS OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM

The new system is designed to solve problems affecting the manual system in
use. It is design to be computerized NYSC registration system thereby relieving
both the students and staff from much stress as experienced in the manual
system.

This system will do the analyzing and storing of information either

automatically or interactively. It will make use of database system.

SUMMARY
This research work focuses on the use of computer based system with reference
to NYSC registration, deployment, and issuing of Certificate. The work covers the
manual system of opertions as regards the problems identified, stating the aims
of the new system, stating the various specifications and then implementing the
programs. The work was successufully developed using VB. 6.0, a user- friendly

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programming language, and the package was tested and improved upon which
yields an automated NYSC deployment system.

The project work cannot be said to be perfect, but however, its benefits cannot be
overemphasized. It has led to the improvement in the speed of processing
operation, efficiency, accuracy and improved storage of data.

CONCLUSION

Realizing a project of this nature is very exciting. However, the students encounter
a lot a problem which I believe if looked into, will go a long way toward reducing
the tension associated with the design implementation and construction of the
project.

In spite of the constraints encountered during the implementation of this

project, the aim of the project is well accomplished.

Moreover, an attempt to accomplish this project has taken care of the delay
between graduation and deployment of students for National Youth Service Corps.
This has also forced the researcher to learn, practically, what is involved in the
design and implementation or computerization of project (existing or non-existing).

Finally, I wish to commend the university system and indeed the department
of computer science for this project inclusion as a course that must be taken by
students. It is a step in the right direction to help students withstand the future
challenges in computing in companies, industries, institutions and the world at
large.

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RECOMMENDATIONS

Based on the achieved objective of this project and the experiences gained during
its designed and implementation, I wish to make the following recommendations
for future improvement.

Students should be exposed to serious practical exercise during the course of their
studies. In this regard, the students of computer science should be made to write
good working programs with veritable results before graduating. This could be
accomplished by providing more computers in the department.

Tertiary institutions should computerize their result processing system for greater
efficiency, neatness, and reliability. This will go a long way to save the student all
the trouble they go through trying to get their results in one form or the other and
facilitate early forwarding of names to NYSC for posting.

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