We served in the same PPA and we fell in love

As members of 2020 Batch B were celebrating their Passing Out Parade (POP) across the nation on Thursday, a Corps member, Paul Ochai, stole the show as he bent his knee to propose to his soulmate, Love, at the NYSC Zonal Office, Jalingo, Taraba State.

Like every NYSC love story, it always start somewhere. Here's how their love began 👇👇👇

I met Love at my PPA - Federal Medical Center, Jalingo, specifically the Nutrition and Dietetics Dept. It was just the two of us serving diligently as Corps Members, although she came a batch ahead of me (i.e Batch B Stream 2020) while I'm Batch A stream 1 2021.

I'm an Idoma born from Otukpo, Benue State and while Love is from Bassa Nge, Kogi State.

When we got talking initially, we found out from our conversations that we both wanted Akwa Ibom as our first choice (state of deployment) but we were given Taraba State which we both didn't like and then same PPA because we had both studied almost the same thing. She studied NUTRITION and DIETETICS from Federal Polytechnic, Kaduna while I studied HOME SCIENCE and MANAGEMENT from Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi.

We eventually became friends, then good friends. We always talked in the line of Purpose and vision making every moment a memorable one.

We were both in different relationships at the early stage of the friendship so we kept the pressure of the love atmosphere away because we discussed our relationships with ourselves and encouraged each other with the hope that we would never miss it as believers.

The miracle happened and we both broke up with our partners and in no time I took the bold step and made my intentions known after much prayers and fasting. I got the leading and she also confirmed my intentions and we made things official by going to see our parents and on her POP I decided to honour her before the world.

We've seen our parents, plans are ongoing and the wedding comes up 10th and 11th of December, 2021.

As dieticians, we believe our love was made by the Master Chef, God himself and we look forward to a delicious and blissful marital life, happy ever after!

Long live NYSC Taraba!

Congratulations @paul_ochai

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