Adebowale89:




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?

Adebowale89:




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

mankand:


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

eleojo23:


Come on, I personally can speak another language which is not my mother tongue but that doesn't make me good at writing it.
There are people who struggle to read and write their own mother tongue sef

mankand:


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

ODVanguard:


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

Esseite:


Matured people!!. really, this is just inferior complex.

Adefemiaderoju1:

What you don't know these days is, most Yoruba people including me can't read or write properly in Yoruba language the way we write in English language, imagine if government doesn't give proper look into this, the language will go into extinct, so other state should emulate this too.

EternalTruth:
afonja

Adebowale89:



what makes it inferior complex? quote me more and lemme disgrace you here publicly

PrecisionFx:


Lagos is not Yoruba land so the Afonjas have no ground to enact such law.

LaudableXX:

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

Obi1kenobi:


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.

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.

Stingman:


I don't support that sh*t...as well

..as you can see every region is trying to be independent...a nation of its own...but you're fvcking dumb to see it.

asha80:
two of you are wrong

Obi1kenobi:


You called it "corporate organization". Of course, all across the country, if you walk into any bank, the staff would generally first speak English to you, except they're familiar with you. It's their way of being accommodating to everyone. It's a different thing with everyday interactions on the streets of Ekiti.

Stingman:


...but you coward can find these guys...

The only way this useless law can stand is when you have your Odua nation...

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?

Esseite:


You see.. what have i been doing all along?.. the brain is not bought..

If colonial nations are trying to relax means of communications and barriers as to contend with the world. We are building masions of barriers that stagnate progress.

asha80:
why didnt you learn it when you where in primary or secondary?were you stopped from learning it?

tunjijones:


Ur view anyway. I don't buy your sch of tot. If what Lagos state did is illegal I think the federal govt wld do something abt it.

ODVanguard:


Well, we have enacted the law now do your worst. You be bastard if you no go court over this matter with all this your Oloshi talk.

daywatcher:



None. What is your point exactly? Everyone in your list has a government that is elected to make laws that they feel is best for their people.

Adebowale89:




will you keep shut your dirty mouth? na everybody you think you can be rubbishing on public forum?

I put it to u again, what makes my post complex inferiority?

bakynes:

See this idiot, Lagos is not Yorubaland? For the fact it is metropolitan doesn't make it less of Yorubaland. We will not forfeit our culture,tradition and language just because we are part of Nigeria.

Today London is most cosmopolitan city in the world and you must learn English language before you come into the country.
Besides this is for only state owned institutions,if you are not OK with the law, you can either go Federal institutions or leave the state.

You will not come here and tell us what to do on our own land when you are at liberty to do whatever you want on yours.

Lagos is no longer the FCT so we have liberty to do as we please on our state.

Adefemiaderoju1:

Didn't you learn your own language when you were in primary and secondary school too?

Vado:

By
Wumi Akinbode February 12, 2018

All candidates seeking admission into all tertiary institutions in Lagos State must henceforth possess credit in Yoruba Language, the state Yoruba Language Preservation and Preservation Law has said.

The law, which became effective last Thursday, would now make compulsory for all primary and secondary schools – private or public – in the state to include teaching of Yoruba Language as a core subject at all levels.

The state Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, had formally signed a bill into law “to provide for the preservation and promotion of the use of Yoruba Language and for connected purposes,” thereby making it the first state to enact law seeking to preserve and promote its indigenous language.

He signed the law alongside the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Mr. Olawale Oluwo, his Information and Strategy counterpart, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan and the Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Akinyemi Ashade, among others.

He equally signed six other bills into laws: the Amended Land Use Charge bill, School of Nursing bill, Cooperative College bill, Cancer Research Institute bill, Amended Customary Court bill and the State Electric Power Reform Law on the same day.

However, the Yoruba Language Preservation and Promotion law provides that all the laws in the state “will be translated into Yoruba Language. Moreso, all state-owned tertiary institutions are to incorporate the use of Yoruba Language in the General Studies (GNS) courses.

“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. It shall not be an offence for a person to speak Yoruba language by the state government,” the law reads in part.

Specifically, the law stated that any school in Lagos State that “fails to comply with the provisions of Section 2 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.”

After the governor approved the legislation, Bamigbetan explained the socio-cultural value of the Yoruba Language Preservation and Promotion Law, 2018, which according to him, is the first of its kind in Nigeria.

With the new law, Bamigbetan said Yoruba language “has become mandatory for all candidates seeking admission into our tertiary institutions. Yoruba will now become a major requirement to engage in normal business communication in Lagos State.

“This is a clear and conscious commitment to the position which Lagos State prides Yoruba language as the cultural vehicle for us to be able to articulate our position and it also shows that Lagos has further recognised the importance of language as a vehicle for development.”

He said anyone seeking admission into the Lagos State University, Lagos State Polytechnic, Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Lagos State School of Nursing and Lagos State College of Health Technology, among others must have credit in Yoruba language.

https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/76940/yoruba-mandatory-admission-tertiary-institutions-lagos-state-govt?

PrecisionFx:
Oga I am laughing at the law, wen did that translate to being pained its a very stupid idea.

Some Igbos sit in federal n state reps/assembly in Lagos, there are also countless Igbo staff members in Lagos state civil service n we also have a very strong presence in Lagos (with population of igbos in millions) n business wise we are there as well. I can't be pained by Lagos, We are there already, As very strong stakeholders