The only thing that is backward is you speaking English when you have your own language and not under colonization. You can always have a Yoruba interpreter with you at the meeting to explain what is going on. Or you can go back to your state, it's simple. We can only dream in our language like someone said.

texazzpete:
What a backward and retrogressive law.
If you want to 'preserve the Yoruba language', why not restrict this only to Yoruba people? Why is this not optional?




This is hostile to others, and disregards the fact that we have a national language in English to eliminate issues such as this. Essentially, this law makes it legal to go to a meeting in the Civil service and have the entire meeting conducted in yoruba language, to the exclusion of any present non-yoruba speaker.

Heck, you can even no use this law to hold lectures in LASU in 100% Yoruba.

Imagine if every tribe copies this and you then need to have a credit in Igbo language to even apply to Imsu


Disgraceful that there are some people here supporting this shite.

PrecisionFx:
Yoruba can only enact such a law wen they form a country. As long as they are still within Nigeria, this law is very dead long before it will arrive. During the next admissions, No one will even talk about this and besides we all know Lagos is not yoruba land.

Wrong! When Anambra enacted similar laws making the teaching and studying of Igbo compulsory in state-owned primary and secondary schools, how many tribes complained? In fact, any student who failed to pass Igbo was denied promotion to the next class.

Why are you now wailing just because Lagos has done something similar, and widened the scope to include its state-owned tertiary institutions? A credit pass in Yoruba language at SSCE level or NECO, is simply needed to gain admission into the institution. The language will not be used as a method of instruction within those tertiary institutions, so why this stress?

Adebowale89:




this go beyond education my guy, we are too fast to compare our disorganised governmental system to a stable government of other countries


goto East, even in the bank the igbos ain't ashamed to speak Igbo language but Yoruba here, in a corporate organization, you will hardly know the employee are yorubas


how do we restore our language value if not through schools? the governor unanimously with the lawmakers had passed the law and there is ntn anyone can do to reverse that, so this debate has no meaning to me

And that is what I said - that I support this measure very strongly at basic education level through primary and secondary school. That is the place for acquiring language skills. At tertiary level, except one is studying a language itself or except one day, we start teaching courses in our indigenous languages, it's a waste of a student's time making him take language courses.

You're comparing the East to Lagos, which isn't a fair comparison. I'm sure in Ekiti or Ondo, Yoruba is the dominant language as Igbo is in Ebonyi or Abia. Lagos is a cosmopolitan city which might be Yoruba dominated, but has a national character and flair. It's interesting that no other state, including the other 5 Yoruba states, ever felt the need to pass this measure, but the Lagos State House did. It seems it is motivated more out of hubris and arrogance and a need to feel relevant than trying to somehow promote the language. Be honest, can you imagine there being some kind of scheme in Abuja where admission or even employment into government institutions requires working knowledge of the Gwari language?

zoedew:


....”if so desired by the concerned”
You go to Quebec and insist on conducting business in English Language just because not all of Canada speak French and we’ll see how far that takes you! The right to self-determination includes the right to preserve your cultural and linguistic identity. Lagos having become a State where all are welcome to aspire it is imperative to ensure that the Yoruba culture and language are well preserved. That is only fair!

French is the official language of the enclave of Quebec. the vast majority of residents in Quebec are french speaking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Language_Act_(Quebec)

your analogy is not apt, as English remains the official language in ALL territories in Nigeria.

Obi1kenobi:


Those countries are mostly ethnically homogeneous, and have their languages as the national language. Nigeria is a multi-ethnic unitary state with an official language which happens to be a colonial one.
In any case, that isn't even the important thing. No one has stopped you developing a Yoruba curriculum. If they were teaching Engineering in Yoruba in LASU, no one who doesn't speak or write Yoruba would bother applying. That's a different thing from going to study a professional course with English as the language of instruction, then having to waste your time with irrelevant courses that adds nothing to your profession. It is understandable in basic education (primary and secondary), but not educating a bunch of adults that came to the university to train themselves as professionals.

my brother I tire d way pple reason in this country

PrecisionFx:
We have a federal ministry for education, their laws on this case surperceeds whatever the land grabbing Yoruba tribe enacts in their state assembly.

The same federal ministry of education did not stop Anambra state for making the studying and teaching of Igbo language compulsory in its state-owned schools. So why should it stop Lagos for doing the same, and asking that students who wish to attend Lagos state-owned tertiary institutions should do the same?

tunjijones:


If you can't abide by the rule then go and school in ur village.

Pls don't come to the east or south south looking for jobs if u don't know their local language. I see a lot of yourobas working in Port Harcourt, go back to your states or learn the local dialects, nonese!!!

ycat:
You can always have a Yoruba interpreter with you at the meeting to explain what is going on. Or you can go back to your state, it's simple.

We can't keep speaking English, we can't develop speaking English, we can only dream in our language.

1. Let me correct this impression. This law is highly unlikely to affect me personally. My university days are long over (and certainly I'd have never gone to any of the provincial tertiary schools in Lagos). I also have limited exposure to Govt agencies. I am merely speaking out against what I perceive to be a misguided law.

2. Any development that could not have been achieved while speaking English...e no go work with Yoruba or Igbo or Hausa languages.

Obi1kenobi:


And that is what I said - that I support this measure very strongly at basic education level through primary and secondary school. That is the place for acquiring language skills. At tertiary level, except one is studying a language itself or except one day, we start teaching courses in our indigenous languages, it's a waste of a student's time making him take language courses.

You're comparing the East to Lagos, which isn't a fair comparison. I'm sure in Ekiti or Ondo, Yoruba is the dominant language as Igbo is in Ebonyi or Abia. Lagos is a cosmopolitan city which might be Yoruba dominated, but has a national character and flair. It's interesting that no other state, including the other 5 Yoruba states, ever felt the need to pass this measure, but the Lagos State House did. It seems it is motivated more out of hubris and arrogance and a need to feel relevant than trying to somehow promote the language. Be honest, can you imagine there being some kind of scheme in Abuja where admission or even employment into government institutions requires working knowledge of the Gwari language?

I spent good 6yrs in Ekiti and the samething was applicable in Ekiti corporate organization


wetin dey pain u now is what I don't understand. your case be like a player that referee give yellow card and he still going to explain to the ref


this law had been on debate for a while, now it had been passed. Lagos is a Yoruba land geographically or politically as you may put it, they're entitled to any decision they take. should we scrap our culture, custom and law because we have non Yoruba settlers here?

PrecisionFx:
Mr Land grabber it is not public knowledge that Lagos is not Yoruba land.


The law is dead long before it will attempt to arrive. Come October, U will know how stupidd the law is.

READ MY LIPS3 - U CAN ONLY SAY THIS BECAUSE U DONT EVEN KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT FEDERAL LAWS. SOON UR EYES WILL CLEAR.

No sir, the only land grabber on this thread is you! That is why you feel so pained by the fact that Lagos state has enacted this law. Try not to kill yourself. In this case, the federal govt laws on education will only apply to federal govt tertiary institutions, and not to Lagos state owned institutions. Take panadol for your headache

Good development.........
One should learn the language of the state where he/she resides..........

Seenyo:

dumb nincompoop! your b*tch of a mother would
have rid the cyberspace of a nuisance with just #20 condom ! ....doomed dumbskull!

wow clap for yourself..
i don't even know why your mom spread her legs for that mad man..
i can now see the outcome of that vile sexual act..
and the result had to be an unfortunate being like you to come to this world
take heart bro aint your fault

You are wrong! Look at S.Korea, they have everything in their own language, so are many other countries. Life is just better with your own tongue.

texazzpete:


1. Let me correct this impression. This law is highly unlikely to affect me personally. My university days are long over (and certainly I'd have never gone to any of the provincial tertiary schools in Lagos). I also have limited exposure to Govt agencies. I am merely speaking out against what I perceive to be a misguided law.

2. Any development that could not have been achieved while speaking English...e no go work with Yoruba or Igbo or Hausa languages.

daywatcher:


Is Lagos and by extension, YORUBALAND, not ethnically homogeneous enough for you? By enacting this law, Is the Lagos state government doing anything illegal under the Nigerian constitution?

Lagos is not ethnically homogeneous. It is dominated by an indigenous ethnic group. But, it isn't ethnically homogeneous. If I were to make the kindest, most generous estimate, I'd say at best, Yorubas are about 65% of the Lagos population. But I'd wager they're less than that.
And no one said what the LASG are doing is "illegal". Legality isn't synonymous with rightness.

Stingman:
You need to enlarge your thought process ogbeni...France, Germany, Japan, Spain are countries...That's why we need Biafra and you Odua nation. It is then you can pass that kind of Law. But you will never support Odua state...You cowardly want to eat you cake and still have it.

The only coward here is you....because you feel threatened by a state house of assembly passing a law that a credit pass in the indigenous language called Yoruba, is needed for admission into their state-owned schools.

As for supporting Odua state, I am sure that is a subject for Odua people and not me. I do not support disintegration, because there is no proof that it would improve the fortunes of this nation. The only thing people should be pushing for is true federalism, not disintegration.

If you do not agree with me, I really do not care. I am entitled to my opinion, the same way you are free to hold fast to your own belief. A million insults or mocking comments from the likes of you, will not change my stand.

ambode is just insecured

texazzpete:
What a backward and retrogressive law.
If you want to 'preserve the Yoruba language', why not restrict this only to Yoruba people? Why is this not optional?




This is hostile to others, and disregards the fact that we have a national language in English to eliminate issues such as this. Essentially, this law makes it legal to go to a meeting in the Civil service and have the entire meeting conducted in yoruba language, to the exclusion of any present non-yoruba speaker.

Heck, you can even no use this law to hold lectures in LASU in 100% Yoruba.

Imagine if every tribe copies this and you then need to have a credit in Igbo language to even apply to Imsu


Disgraceful that there are some people here supporting this shite.

Yours dilector is nowhere to be found. If the law isn't okay with you, leave Yoruba land and go back to your village

Adebowale89:




leave that your jargonz for lawma to pack. language is an essential part in human race, is our culture, one must not abandoned is culture for one useless foreigners as you called it


I repeat anyone that's not interested in this can go back to their homeland

Your write up speaks volume on why the bill was passed... the english articulation is poor.. be exposed, even france is pushing for english as the world has left them behind in business transactions.

LaudableXX:

Wrong! When Anambra enacted similar laws making the teaching and studying of Igbo compulsory in state-owned primary and secondary schools, how many tribes complained? In fact, any student who failed to pass Igbo was denied promotion to the next class.

Why are you now wailing just because Lagos has done something similar, and widened the scope to include its state-owned tertiary institutions? A credit pass in Yoruba language at SSCE level or NECO, is simply needed to gain admission into the institution. The language will not be used as a method of instruction within those tertiary institutions, so why this stress?

I never heard about such a law and even if they enacted it, Its dead long before it arrives. It might be something that happened maybe 10 years ago n was never enforced because it is IMPOSSIBLE.

No state in Nigeria can "force" anyone to read a local language before they are allowed to graduate or allowed to gain admission. Such a law has never seen the light of the day in Nigeria and it will remain like that.


Besides if such a law was legal and was announced, Its Igbo land so it is justifiable . Lagos is not Yoruba land so the Afonjas have no ground to enact such law.

asha80:
i dont see how it will work if it was targeted at igbos though

Who were the SE governors targeting when they did similarly?

www.thenationonlineng.net/obiano-makes-igbo-language-compulsory/,
www.biatimes.com/2016/03/07/nigeria-igbo-language-now-compulsory-in-igbo-schools-governor-rochas-okorocha/,
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/university-make-igbo-language-compulsory-course-students

ositadima1:


Pls don't come to the east or south south looking for jobs if u don't know their local language. I see a lot of yourobas working in Port Harcourt, go back to your
states or learn the local dialects, nonese!!!

Compare the numbers of south west in the east to the number of easteners in the west... The number of Easterners in the west is alarming. Am not the type that dwel on tribe or a tribalist but if Lagos state says that's what the want then you have to abide by it or you get the f...k off. And bros pls stop lumping south east with south south, they are not the same pple.

tunjijones:
[s] Very good development. I see our languages get extinct in the next50 years if drastic measures are not take [/s]

shut up afonja. Stop talking trash.
This country shall forever remain backward with such useless tribal policy.

ODVanguard:


Who were the SE governors targeting when they did similarly?

www.thenationonlineng.net/obiano-makes-igbo-language-compulsory/, www. biatimes.com/2016/03/07/nigeria-igbo-language-now-compulsory-in-igbo-schools-governor-rochas-okorocha/, www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/university-make-igbo-language-compulsory-course-students

ask those who said the law was targeted at igbos.

asha80:
ask those who said the law was targeted at igbos.

But you people are the ones foaming in the mouth over this na, even though no one gave a shut about it when y'all did similarly.

EternalTruth:
shut up afonja. Stop talking trash.
This country shall forever remain backward with such useless tribal policy.

That's how u see it anyway but I see it that they want to preserve their language. Andbyou idoiot how dare u shut me up for airing my view is it ur view. Why can't u counter what I said without all the trash you wrote up there.

Stingman:


Stop this rubbish. For this to work...the Yorubas must have their own country...Just like the Germans and Russians. But you are scared stiff to be own your own...You cowardly want to eat your cake and have it...

But Igbo's don't have their own country yet una governors did this and Yoruba's didn't give a flipping fvck.

www.thenationonlineng.net/obiano-makes-igbo-language-compulsory/,
www.biatimes.com/2016/03/07/nigeria-igbo-language-now-compulsory-in-igbo-schools-governor-rochas-okorocha/,
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/university-make-igbo-language-compulsory-course-students

ositadima1:


Pls don't come to the east or south south looking for jobs if u don't know their local language. I see a lot of yourobas working in Port Harcourt, go back to your states or learn the local dialects, nonese!!!

But Yoruba's didn't give a shyt when your SE governors did similarly. So why the bile??

www.thenationonlineng.net/obiano-makes-igbo-language-compulsory/,
www.biatimes.com/2016/03/07/nigeria-igbo-language-now-compulsory-in-igbo-schools-governor-rochas-okorocha/,
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/university-make-igbo-language-compulsory-course-students

ODVanguard:


But you people are the ones foaming in the mouth over this na, even though no one gave a shut about it when y'all did similarly.

direct your question to those that said it was targeted at igbos unless you can point me to why i said this law is targeted at igbos.

Esseite:


Your write up speaks volume on why the bill was passed... the english articulation is poor.. be exposed, even france is pushing for english as the world has left them behind in business transactions.

see this native fowl? who called you to this debate? this is a debate for matured people, stop advertising your childish behaviour here

PrecisionFx:




I never heard about such a law and even if they enacted it, Its dead long before it arrives. It might be something that happened maybe 10 years ago n was never enforced because it is IMPOSSIBLE.

No state in Nigeria can "force" anyone to read a local language before they are allowed to graduate or allowed to gain admission. Such a law has never seen the light of the day in Nigeria and it will remain like that.


Besides if such a law was legal and was announced, Its Igbo land so it is justifiable . Lagos is not Yoruba land so the Afonjas have no ground to enact such law.

Continue deceiving yourself

EternalTruth:
shut up afonja. Stop talking trash.
This country shall forever remain backward with such useless tribal policy.

Where were you when your Igbo governors were doing similarly in igboland??

www.thenationonlineng.net/obiano-makes-igbo-language-compulsory/,
www.biatimes.com/2016/03/07/nigeria-igbo-language-now-compulsory-in-igbo-schools-governor-rochas-okorocha/,
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/university-make-igbo-language-compulsory-course-students

LaudableXX:

The only coward here is you....because you feel threatened by a state house of assembly passing a law that a credit pass in the indigenous language called Yoruba, is needed for admission into their state-owned schools.

As for supporting Odua state, I am sure that is a subject for Odua people and not me. I do not support disintegration, because there is no proof that it would improve the fortunes of this nation. The only thing people should be pushing for is true federalism, not disintegration.

If you do not agree with me, I really do not care. I am entitled to my opinion, the same way you are free to hold fast to your own belief. A million insults or mocking comments from the likes of you, will not change my stand.

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/dailypost.ng/2017/10/20/lagos-house-assembly-passes-yoruba-language-bill-law/amp/


Another useless law enacted in Lagos n has been forgotten already, none of them will fly.


Yoruba is not a Lagos indigenous language and till today Yoruba is not the lingua franca in Lagos and will never be.



"""federalism, not disintegration"""

Federalism n disintegration is same......U should have long known this if u were in the know.