Yoruba As Official Language Of Lagos House Of Assembly!

Whoever created the poll should kindly add a third option: COMMON SENSE

This will provide jobs for people that study 'Yoruba as modern language' and encourage others to study it too.

They will provide both Yoruba/English versions of all State Assembly communications, journals, news, books etc

Please bring this discussion to the new Yorubaland web site at www.yorubaland.org

So much for one Nigeria? You lot make me laugh. So Babasin's argument is, if the assembly agree to pass it into law, so be it. I wondered if Babasin will take the same stance if all the houses of asemblies in Niger Delta, Imo or Abia decided to pass a law that said that every single drop of oil in their states should remain their's?

Mind you it was the Eastern region house of assembly that passed the law, declaring independent of Biafra from Nigeria and the likes of Babasin said: Over their dead body and went on a killing spree to stop it without any viable reason other than Nigeria must remain one as if it has ever been one before Lord lugard decided so!  This kind of people will be the first to shout about one Nigeria but their actions and deed betrays their protestions. Our northern brothers recently adopted the same stance, when they told us that their assemblies adopted or passed into law, the acceptance sharia as their official law code despite their coats of one Nigeria and if the same apply to oil producing states, will they had accepted it too?

This people claims one Nigeria when it suits them, only when the booty that kept Nigeria one on paper is been shared among themselves. But when it come to other issues like sensitive governmental jobs, good road networks, infratructures, juicy appointments, they will forget that we are all one Nigeria. I personally don't have a problem with Yorubas doing something to protect their language but it can only happen the framework of a Yoruba as a nation, free enthity and not under one Nigeria which Yoruba itself is just a part. By the action of Lagos assembly, what they are saying is this land is ours and all of you lot remaining are bloody foreigners in their own country.

Look at the United Kingdom for example, how the Welsh can use their language in Welsh assembly instead of English. The reason being that, Wales is a country inside a union called Britain.  As a country, they have their own national Anthem, Flag, Adminitrative Capital, Assembly, First minster (prime minister) National sports stadium, National sport teams/Colours, Coat of Arms, Unit Currency, Tax System, Judicial system etc. So it won't be bizzare if they adopt their Welsh language as an official language of business.  But as far as one Nigeria advocates are concerned, there are no nation called Yorubaland. 

If they had understood the idea behind Biafra, we can still today have Nigeria just as they have United Kingdom but we can still have independent nations of Oduduwa, Arewa, Niger Delta and Biafra just as they have independent nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. There would had been less fight on who should be president, VP, IG at the centre as everyone will be managing their own affairs and perculiar problems. A Nigeria president would had been just a ceremonial one while all the power of develpment reside with component independent nations.
The likes of Maurice Iwu, Andy Uba, Nzeribe etc would had been the problem for the Biafrans and also all the misrules of IBB, Abacha, Shagari and now Yar Adua would had been the headache for the Arewas. OBJ, Adedibu, Akala will now be a test for the Odua nation. And if Niger Delta decided to make kidnapping their means of livilehood or decide to kill themselves over their oil, let it be their business and will not hamper other progress.

There would had been positive competition among the nations on whom will be the first to have 24 hrs electricity, best hospitals, airports, schools, broadband internet, modern water supply and sewage system, rather what we got today is a scenario where everyone is cooked up in one pot in the name of one Nigeria by all means fighting undermining each other but will be the first to deny it or bury it. With One Nigeria, people spent all their times and energy sabotaging and plotting against each other's downfall. Where important Projects are sited not based on economic sound footing/sense but based on scoring cheap points, vengeance and revenge.  That is why you can site an airport in Maiduguri or Okene where few economic activitiesa are happening than economic/industrial power houses cities like Onitsha, Aba or Nnewi where billions of naira worth of business are done every single day.  That is why One Nigeria will not lose any sleep building possibly, a navy base in a desert if they can.

The Oduduwa people have the right to adopt their language and no one will ask any question. When most Yoruba fight against the Biafran idea with venom, indirectly, they are undoing themselves.  Most Yorubas (not all of them) watch or supervised the northener's systematic destruction of Nigeria federation and replaced it wiht an unknown unitary system to justify/legalize their stealing/looting of southern crude oil. But today they are calling for a sovereign national conference but no one is listening. Today, they wanted the a revisitation toward regional/parliamentary governement that led to beautiful projects like first TV station in Africa in Ibadan, Universities of Ibadan, Ife, Cocoa House, Liberty stadium etc but their friends from the North are having non of it.  June 12 needed to happened and Abiola and others need to be sacrificed in order for our Yoruba brothers to test power again through even the man they love to hate called OBJ. 

If Biafra had succeeded, the glory of Lagos would never had been taken away from it to build artificial city called Abuja. National stadium Surulere will never had been replaced by another quick built in Abuja and Surulere one left to rot. Foreign missions, NTA, FRCN and so many uncountable things normally in Lagos lost through blind minded one Nigeria and thousands of job that left with them as well.

Every passing day, we are been vindicated.

I thought that was another yahoo yahoo to milk people dry, didn't know it was for real  But why?  This is kind of racist, but black people probably won't see it that way.   

  We are pretty much more racist since we see ourselves solely as the ones on the receiving end of racism. As a result we don't see the ugly racist lurking in the darkest corner of our mind. Look at Nairaland and the ridiculous 'tribal wars' where some people find it difficult to make their point without the insertion of inflammatory and derogatory lines against other 'tribes'.  Some call it tribalism, I call it RACISM. 

i don't think that's a smart move 
state govt has different lang. from federal govt.
lagos is populated by many non-yorubas and i'm sure there are some non-yorubas in the assembly.

well if they can use english and yoruba. that will be cool

they should be more concerned with nigerian democracy than a country miles away

that's a borrowed one and it should be return back to the brithish, we our Nigeria laguage, let come and borrow from us, that's how they came with their big, big english and trik us off our belongings.

I just love every inch of this statement.