Yoruba language bill: Lagos schools risk N500, 000
fine, closure for non-compliance
ON September 28, 2017 9:50 PM / IN Just
Human , News / BY Adekunle


Lagos – The Lagos State House of Assembly is
proposing a fine of N500, 000 or closure of any
school that flouts its proposed law on compulsory
teaching and learning of Yoruba Language, when
passed.


“A Bill for a Law To Provide for the Preservation and
Promotion of the Use of Yoruba Language and for
Connected Purposes’’ before the House seeks to
make Yoruba language a core subject in schools.


Presenting a report on the bill on Thursday, the
Chairman of the House Committee on Education, Mr
Lanre Ogunyemi, said that it would enhance the
preservation of the language.


According to him, the bill also recommends the
translation of all the laws in the state into Yoruba
language in order to get to its target.
The Assembly had previously made moves to make
teaching and learning of Yoruba Language
compulsory in both public and private schools in the
state.
The House said that such step had become
imperative to meet its target of preserving and
promoting the indigenous language of the South West
from going into extinction.



The bill states further that all state- owned tertiary
institutions should incorporate the use of Yoruba
Language in the General Studies (GNS) curriculum.
It reads in part: “The use of Yoruba Language shall
be an acceptable means of communication between
individuals, establishment, corporate entities and
government in the state if so desired by the
concerned.


“Any school that fails to comply with the provisions
of Section 2 of the law commits an offence and is
liable on first violation to issuance of warning and on
subsequent violation be closed down and also pay a
fine of N500, 000.”


Ogunyemi later told newsmen that the committee
might amend a provision in the bill which
recommended that it should take effect after two
years of its passage.


According to him, most of the lawmakers want the
bill to become effective immediately after it is signed
into law by Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode.
The lawmaker added that the Assembly was
passionate about Yoruba Language which
necessitated its adoption for parliamentary debate on
Thursdays.


“The National Policy on Education provides that the
language of an environment should be spoken in
schools, which is why Yoruba Language is being
adopted for Lagos schools.


“After the passage of the bill into law, it would
become compelling for schools to speak Yoruba
Language. We want to preserve the language for
generations yet unborn,’’ he said.
On compliance by private schools after passage, the
lawmaker said that schools owners were part of the
bill and that they were at meetings the committee
held across the education districts in the state.


He added that private schools owners would have no
choice than to key into the project as they have been
properly mobilised, adding that the state Ministry of
Education would ensure compliance.


On the translation of the laws into Yoruba Language,
Ogunyemi said that this was to ensure that those that
are literate in Yoruba language were carried along in
the scheme of things in the state.


The Speaker of the House, Mr Mudashiru Obasa,
commended the committee, noting that the bill
should take effect once signed into law by the state
governor.
NAN reports that the House accepted the report as
its resolution as the bill awaits third reading. (NAN)


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well I think it very necessary.

An average home bred Westerner speaks Yoruba-English...hence, that ɓill is useless.

Where are the NOMANSLAND campaigners

LordIsaac:
An average home bred Westerner speaks Yoruba-English...hence, that ɓill is useless.

except it is targeted at non-westerners

No concern me sef

Best way to go ... Because some schools now see teaching Yoruba language as a waste of time .. Even the British still teaches English as a subject in their classes.

I just dey laugh. The yoruba they speak everyday and everywhere, even in their dreams,?? It's in the blood stream. No need to worry about preserving it. It's preserved in stone, blood and genes already.

Just say the Government is looking for more money. The Tax isn't enough anymore.

This makes sense.

My young man can hardly respond to simple Yoruba statements

Correct

500k is too little. It should be steeper.

OK

ok

Short of words

keb82289aoa:
teacher

Fraudulent thief

LordIsaac:
An average home bred Westerner speaks Yoruba-English...hence, that ɓill is useless.

Funny U @Yoruba English

Good one by Lagos state. It's necessary because of so many missed and eroded culture that has found its way in Lagos

Nice one @d right direction, how i wish Bini languagr is also givrn this kind of attention

https://www.facebook.com/events/1067486876688369/?ti=cl

Better, the more reason china will be world super power.
Why supress your language for a borrowed one

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keb82289aoa:
teacher

May the phone you use in posting this turn to an explosive device and blow off your f**king head.

Useless scammer

Dont feel threatened oh ye non-westerners,if you have come here to enjoy our environment and its vantages,you've got to learn the culture and languages too.

This is necessary and important

It's fine

thats nice...unlike most states in South south, epecially edo and delta.90% of kids in benin and warri can speak their languages.

the law is not harsh at all...they shud be be fined every term

Good, not everyone that speaks Yoruba can write it. There are others aspect of the language that need to be learned. The alphabet, Akanlo ede etc.

I would like to see the Yoruba translation of..
..Wherein and wherefore the prospective customer has with or without proven intent alone or by himself and or in collusion with others...

LordIsaac:
An average home bred Westerner speaks Yoruba-English...hence, that ɓill is useless.

Speaking a language alone is not enough. You can't pass an examination in English because you can speak English.

this is a nice bill which should be passed in all south West zone. cus everything about our culture is going to an extinction.