Teen English Champion Launches Campaign To Eliminate Vernacular In Schools

In a determination aimed astatine reshaping the acquisition scenery successful Northern Nigeria, globally celebrated TeenEagle3 English Language Global finals winner, Nafisa Abdullahi Aminu, has launched a run to beforehand the exclusive usage of English successful schools.

She is advocating for the gradual phase-out of vernacular languages successful world settings.
The initiative, titled “Always Speak English: No More Vernacular successful Schools,” was unveiled during a designation sojourn by the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and Zenith Bank to Nigerian Tulip International College (NTIC), Abuja wherever Nafisa is presently a student.
A connection signed by her media advisor, Mallam Hassan Salihu obtained by LEADERSHIP noted that Nafisa spoke passionately astir the value of English fluency successful unlocking planetary opportunities for students crossed the Northern region.

The connection emphasised that the run reflects Nafisa’s imaginativeness for a portion wherever students are empowered to thrive connected the planetary stage.

Speaking connected behalf of her peers, Nafisa stressed that English is not conscionable an world taxable but a captious instrumentality for success.

“English Language is much than conscionable a subject; it is simply a gateway. For students, fluency successful English opens doors to higher education, planetary resources and world breakthroughs,” she said.

“On the different hand, a anemic bid of English tin go a barrier, closing opportunities and limiting the quality to vie connected adjacent crushed successful examinations, research, and planetary engagements,” she added.

The connection said her inaugural was portion of a broader level she created; English Language for Peace and Development, which seeks to fortify literacy, amended world outcomes, enactment peacebuilding, and grow economical and acquisition opportunities for younker successful Northern Nigeria.

Nafisa expressed heavy appreciation to the ACF and Zenith Bank for the recognition, describing it arsenic “a beardown objection of committedness to younker development, acquisition advancement, and the aboriginal of Northern Nigeria.”

She further urged Northern leaders to physique stronger collaborations with institutions similar NTIC, which she commended for combining world excellence with quality development.

The Arewa Consultative Forum expressed afloat enactment for Nafisa’s campaign, describing it arsenic perfectly aligned with the forum’s broader goals of promoting acquisition and bid crossed the region.