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:
Ø Poor handling of corps members’ information
Ø Time wastage in searching for information
Ø Data redundancy
1.3 OBJECTIVES
OF THE PROJECT
The
objectives of this project are as follows:
Ø To design an information system that makes data access easy for
corps members.
Ø To design a system that can automatically post corps members to
their areas of primary assignment.
Ø
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.