A man and his fiance who met during the compulsory NYSC scheme are set to wed in November.
The pictures of the couple, which has gone viral on social media platform, has generated a lot of views and comments applauding the couple for holding on to their relationship even after concluding their NYSC programme.
National Youth Service Corps is a one year mandatory exercise from the Federal Government aimed at fostering inter-tribal relationships and learning different cultures.
Many people during their service years, have made friends, married and received letters of recommendations from their place of primary assignment.
The young man, who calls himself an optimist on Instagram, and his wife Yemmy, wrote an emotional caption on their photo.
He said: “Under the sun and in the rain we found love, with dedication and selflessness we live forever. When corper marry corper dem go born better.”
“God bless the day I met you and also the day I said to you confidently that I was gonna snatch you away from your boyfriend, little did I know that she was just there waiting for me. Yo, it’s a few days and you gonna be mine forever.”
He added: “She didn’t belong anywhere and she didn’t belong to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful.
“But she only wanted to belong to someone. People always thought she was too wonderful to belong to them or that something too wonderful would hurt too much to lose. And that’s why she loves me because I didn’t question our friendship till the day she said yes.”
