PROJECT PROPOSAL

ON

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF NYSC POSTING SYSTEM (A

CASE STUDY OF N.Y.S.C. ENUGU)

PRESENTED BY

JOHN KENNETH ISEMIN

FCAI/CST/ND/2018/2019/0423

IN PARIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE

AWARD OF NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

TECHNOLOGY, FEDERAL COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ISHIAGU,

IVO LGA, EBONYI STATE

NOVEMBER, 2020

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INTRODUCTION

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme was created in a bid to

reconstruct, reconcile and rebuild the country after the Nigerian Civil war. The

unfortunate antecedents in our national history gave impetus to the establishment

of the National Youth Service Corps by decree No.24 of 22nd May 1973 which

stated that the NYSC is being established with a view to the proper encouragement

and development of common ties among the youths of Nigeria and the promotion

of national unity.

Due to the present trend of information technology, it is of importance that the

posting system should be automated, so as to enhance adequate service delivering.

By so doing it will support operations, management and decision making for the

scheme in achieving her set goal.

This intensifies the need to provide a sophisticated machine that will help in the

processing for convenience. With the aid of the computer system retrieval and

editing and of documents and all problems of the manual processing will be a thing

of the past.

This project is mainly depended on the use of Information and Communication

Technology (ICT) facilities e.g Computer and the Information Systems which will

help to control the performance of the scheme.

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AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The objective of this project is to design a system which will:

i. Design and implement a central database system that would serve as NYSC

database, which will contain information of all the graduates that qualified

youth service corps.

ii. To generate students call up letters automatically.

iii. To efficiently and effectively post qualified students.

iv. Provide a reliable solution to mobilization system that will be corruption

free.

v. Gives schools easy access to uploading the information of their graduates for

mobilization as the schools will use the portal to upload their information

rather than forwarding all information to the NYSC office.

vi. Maintain a reliable database for storage of graduates and schools’ records

and update as the need arises.

vii. Restrict unauthorized access to the graduates and schools’ records, as well as

NYSC administrators’ records.

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LITERATURE REVIEW

An Overview of Nigeria Youth Service Corps Scheme

The national youth service corps (NYSC) scheme was established by the then head

of state, general Yakubu Gowon in Nigeria on 22nd of May, 1973. By the year

2000, years after the decree enabling its establishment was promulgated, a large

and diverse segment of the Nigerian population as well as notable people around

the world, commended its establishment and eulogized its operations and

achievement, especially its momentous role in promoting national unity,

integration and rapid economic development of Nigeria.

Operation of the NYSC Scheme

The decree set up a National Directorate comprising a chairman, the Director-

General, representatives of committees of vice chancellors, rectors, the armed

forces, police, the Nigeria employers’ consultative association and time special

members. The Directorate is the governing and policy making body of the

National Youth Services Corps. The Director General is the chief Executive of the

scheme while the coordinator is in charge of the state secretariat. The Decree also

provides for the establishment of a Governing Board in each state of the

federation. The state Governing Board has a statutory responsibility to assist

the Directorate in the smooth operation of the scheme in the state. The Decree

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also established local governing committees and State Zonal Officers to assist

in the operation of the scheme at the grassroots levels.

Phases of the NYSC Programme

The four phase programmes of national youth of the national youth service

corps is as follows:

 Mobilization

 Orientation

 Primary Assignment/Community Development Service

 Passing out

Computer Systems and Other Related Concepts

The introduction of computer into information technology has massively improved

the information need of organization; the success of this machine is dependent on

the knowledge base. Therefore, one can be prompted to ask aloud “what is a

computer”. Funk (1980), defined a computer as an electronic device that can

perform automatically and at a high speed a sequence of logical operations

according to instructions given to it inform of a pre-arranged program.

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METHODOLOGY

A methodology is a system of methods used in a particular area of study. It is a

body of practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in a discipline or

engage in an enquiry. It is in other words, a set of working methods.

Design Methodology Adopted

The System will adopt the Structured Systems Analysis and Design

Methodology (SSADM). SSADM is an integrated set of standards which guides

the analysis and design of computer systems. It is a set of manual and automated

activities organized to reproducibly accomplish a set of stated purposes on a

computer.

Major Tools for SSADM

 Logical Data Modelling

 Data Flow Modelling

 Entity Behaviour Modelling

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 System Flowchart

START

HOME PAGE

SCHOOL LOGIN
ADMIN LOGIN DETAILS
ADMIN LOGIN TYPE SCHOOL
DETAILS

NO
NO
IS MATCH
IS MATCH
FOUND?
FOUND?

YES YES

PERFORM ADMIN PERFORM SCHOOL

FUNCTIONS FUNCTIONS

SAVE RESULTS TO DATABASE

STOP

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Choice of Tools

The core programming language that would be used to develop this program was

PHP. The programming language was selected because doesn’t use a lot of the

systems resources so it runs faster and doesn’t tend to slow other processes down.

It is typically used as an Apache module, written in C, so it loads and executes

quickly. It works well with other softwares and is quite fast.

Other tools that would be used in making this project a success are explained

below:

i. CSS (Cascading Style Sheet): It provides a way to style and present HTML.

ii. HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language): Hyper Text Markup Language is

a markup language that web browsers use to interpret and compose text,

images and other material into visual or audible web pages.

iii. JavaScript and jQuery: JavaScript allow client-side scripts to interact with

the user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter

the document content that is displayed. The most used JS library, jQuery is

constructed to ease developers when creating scripts for a web page. Some

features are selection and manipulation of elements, CSS manipulation and

HTML event functions.

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BENEFITS OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM

Improvements to systems can be defined as changes that will result in worthwhile

benefits. It is expected that the new system will reduce at least by half (1/2) all the

problems encountered in the old system and at least improve on some, if not all the

shortcomings noticed in the old system.

The new system is expected to do the following:

i. Full digitalization of NYSC records.

ii. Reduce errors in inputs.

iii. Speed up processes.

iv. Streamline a process by eliminating unnecessary steps.

v. Improve user satisfaction with the system.

vi. Cuts costs to the barest minimum.

vii. Improve on the security of data and information.

viii. To increase data integrity and reliability due to a more secure and

reliable system.

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PROJECT SCHEDULE

S/ WORK PLAN DURATION

N
1 Gathering of research materials Done
2 Project Proposal November
3 Literature Review 1st & 2nd week of
December
4 Program Design 3rd & 4th week of
December
5 Report Writing 1st Week of January 2021
6 Submission of Report and 2nd & 3rd week of January
Corrections 2021
7 Submission of Design and 4th week of January, 2021
Corrections
8 Conclusion 1st Week of February, 2021

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CONCLUSION

The importance of the use of computer systems today cannot be overemphasized.

The academic unit should be the first to embrace this technology trends, being the

training unit.

The program is aimed to implement an easy to use system that can efficiently

manage the mobilization/posting system for the National Youth Service Corps. The

system would be developed a result of the analysis and implementation of the data

derived from necessary academic unit concerned with national service mobilization

and interview from important persons.

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