"I'm Finished": NYSC Member Arrives Place of Primary Assignment, Discovers Students Don't Understand English

"I'm Finished": NYSC Member Arrives Place of Primary Assignment, Discovers Students Don't Understand English

  • A member of the National Youth Service Corps found out that some students at his place of primary assignment don't understand the English language
  • The NYSC member, Emma Oniru, spoke to the JSS3 school children using pigeon English but they responded in the Hausa language
  • Emma was asking the children the whereabouts of their school's principal, but they found it hard to understand him

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A member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says JSS3 children in his place of primary assignment (PPA) don't understand English.

The NYSC member, Emma Oniru, posted a video to show when he arrived at the school he was posted to for the one-year compulsory national service.

Photos of a NYSC member at his PPA.
Some children encountered by the NYSC member were unable to speak the English language. Photo credit: TikTok/@emma_oniru.
Source: TikTok

He wanted to see the school's principal, but he was not at his desk. He then asked the students the whereabouts of the principal, but they found it hard to communicate with him.

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NYSC member interacts with students at his PPA

When the corp member spoke to them in the English language, the children responded in the Hausa language.

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The children are in JSS3 but are still unable to express themselves coherently in the English language.

The TikTok video was later posted on Instagram by @instablog9ja, and it got many reactions.

Watch the video below:

Reactions from TikTok users as NYSC member arrives his PPA

@Abicent_olamhi said:

"No English in school so na for where them go con dey speak English oh?"

@Bigbrother9jaUpdates commented:

"People weh dem dey use Hausa teach them English. You go explain tire."

@akinyemibola0 reacted:

"You better drop the phone and explain with your hand."

@AdeolaGold said:

"You don buy job. Abeg leave my brothers alone oo."

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@user2060839596197 commented:

"You go explain tire no evidence."

@Ade folaju said:

"You go dey explain explain explain....you go explain tire, no evidence."

@user3419921001292 reacted:

"How you won take teach them na."

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