It has been revealed that some Nigerian graduates taking part in
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme can hardly communicate in
English Language.
The Director-General of NYSC, Brig-Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia made the
revelation in Ilorin, capital of Kwara state, while addressing the 2013
batch A pre-mobilisation workshop.
He said that the level of academic deficiency among corps members had heightened corps rejection and redundancy.
“Unfortunately
too, we have corps members who can hardly communicate in English
Language let alone being able to teach in the classrooms.
” This
worrisome development has resulted in a situation whereby members of the
public wrongly condemn the NYSC for the poor academic standards
displayed by these corps members,’’ Okore- Affia said.
He said the
inability of academic institutions to produce eligible corps members
had become a herculean task for NYSC management.
He added, “going
through the figures presented for mobilisation by Corps Producing
Institutions (CPIs) in year 2012,it was discovered that many exceeded
the admission quota approved by regulatory bodies by as much as 500 per
cent in extreme cases.
Okore-Affia said many principals of schools
and other employers were ejecting corps members posted to their schools
and offices and stressed that it was difficult to even re-orientate
such corps members.
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