The Director-General of NYSC, Brig-Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia has bad
news: he revealed yesterday that some Nigerian graduates taking part in
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme can hardly communicate in the English Language.
It was a shocking revelation in Ilorin, capital of Kwara state, as
Okore-Affia gave a speech during the 2013 batch A pre-mobilisation
workshop.
“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 an extraordinary task for NYSC management.
According to reports, 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.
“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,” he said.
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