80% Of 2017 N-power Applicants Cannot Write Simple English On Social Media - 2016 Beneficiary Attacks Applicants | CNR

A 2016 Npower beneficiary in Lagos state, Johnson Ademola has generated controversy on social media after he alleged that nearly 80% of applicants into the 2017 Npower recruitment exercise who are anxiously waiting for their final list of successful applicants were educated illiterates who could hardly communicate in simply English.

The controversial beneficiary, Ademola, insisted that the applicants should be further subjected to intense physical written examination to determine those who are qualified and capable to do the job.

Ademola said: If there is anything this Npower programme has further revealed to Nigerians, it is the sad reality that most Nigerian graduates are educated illiterates and therefore not employable. I know that many of them will attack me on this platform but I must tell them the bitter truth.

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"How do explain a situation where someone asking to be recruited for teaching job cannot write or speak simple grammar? I have been observing closely, the grammatical content of enquiries by 2017 Npower applicants on various Npower social media platforms. My findings are disheartening. A potential Npower teacher cannot write or communicate with simple English. What will he or she teach those pupils and students?

"It is my view that Npower should immediately cancel the ongoing selection process and invite pre-selected applicants to different venues for physical written examination to determine those who are qualified and capable of teaching. Nearly 80% of them cannot write correct, simple English on social media.

"Many of these 2017 applicants are not ready to do anything. That is why they are mostly concerned about when their monthly stipends will started "raining". In fact, many of them know that they cannot teach. Majority of them are not employable.

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"They see Npower as a dumping ground for poorly trained 'graduates' and others who cannot do anything else than wait on government for intervention.

"My advice for them is that it is not late for them to start making deliberate effort to improve their communication skills and grammar competence", the beneficiary suggested, adding that after Npower, they will still search for job and it will continue to hunt them down if they fails to improve.

But he got more than he bargained for as other beneficiaries and applicants attacked him for holding what many of them described as "selfish view".

One of those who replied him said he was too selfish to hold such opinion, arguing that English language is a foreign language and as such, should not be a measure of any graduate's intellectual capacity.
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"How can you judge people's strength and weakness on basis of fluency in a foreign language? You have shown how selfish and wicked you are. Thank God you are not Npower", an applicant, Ezenwanne Joel said.

But true to Mr Ademola's claims, many replies to his statement were so badly written, such that many of them are unprintable.

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Meanwhile, there have been growing concerns about the employability of most Nigerian graduates with some stakeholders arguing that majority of them are poorly trained and lack relevant skills to compete favourably in the very competitive labour market.