₦airaland Forum

noscarn91:
Don't mind that guy , they guy is na retard with cheap kobo kobo internet data

lmaoo

This is the era of Evans, NL well done o! One Evans thread per hour

ollah1:
It's now Chinese vs Arabic. No more German or Hindi et al. Arabic as a language is widely spoken in more countries. By your logic, other countries importing from China should also input Chinese in their curriculum.

Arabic is taght in western schools , same can't be said about Chinese

I can't stand lies

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pupils-across-england-start-intensive-lessons-in-mandarin

Also FYI - Arabic is widely spoken in ISLAMIC countries. Don't use a blanket of "more countries" to cover it!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

Arabic is number 5 because it is spoken by ALL Islamic countries in the Arab league. Over 20 of them. Duh.

The Arab state currently consists of the 22 Arabic-speaking countries of the Arab League.

laraoge:
The compulsory study of Islamic Studies in our secondary schools is a step towards islamizing our great Nation Nigeria and would only breed more and more terrorists in the making.

No way! God will scatter all their evil plans against this nation.
The Bible says surely they will gather but He "Olowogbogboro"will scatter them all.

In a country still battling Boko haram as we speak, this should be the least of their priorities. Indoctrination in multiple shades. Smh.

ollah1:
Where in my comment did i say there isn't any economic importance. You guys are just this simply cos it s Arabic, do you know how much imports Nigeria make from UAE? You are calling someone a dogmatic person yet you aren't countering him with a superior argument. Morso, IRK isn't in the curriculum. Learn to read and comprehend .

If you can't relate your comment about business ties to economic benefit, then the situation is even worse than I thought.

This is my last reply to you. It's your headache if you want to argue it all day. #WeSayNoToCompulsoryIRK. End of story.

ollah1:
Every country imports from China. Didnt Lagos sign a deal with UAE sometime ago? I'm wondering why you said no word about Spanish language.

But you were earlier claiming there was no economic benefit na, now it is "every country imports from China"

I am not going to waste my time this afternoon doing back and forth with a dogmatic person. The point has been made, which is that IRK has no place in being a compulsory option in this country's educational system. Eod.

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chngebeginwthme:
What is the situation of things? Who is responsible for your laziness? Who is responsible for you father not being able to work hard to be in the same class with the likes of Femi Otedola, Adenuga, Saraki, Tinubu etc... Abi when last did you see their children wailing on social media like you..

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ollah1:
You guys are just pained dudes. What business ties do you have with them that correlates with their languages?

German
Spanish
Chinese

There are many German companies in Nigeria particularly in the construction sector. There is an existing partnership already.

Nigerians import a large chunk of items from China, not to mention the loans they are constantly begging China for.

What do we import or benefit from Saudi Arabia or any Arabic country (besides dates in reference to an earlier thread today).

chngebeginwthme:
Most of you are just wailing up and down, Maybe you need to know meaning of transferring power to his vice...


Like Lai Mohamed said on the day of his screening, 4yrs is too small to learn to be in opposition..

With the current situation of the country, it is sad you still cannot think objectively.

Your headache anyway.

Xtfield:
I read the article and the article just shows the position of CAN. I don't have to follow CAN because I have the curriculum in my office and I know what it says which is quite different from the wrong information that CAN is circulating. I am a teacher, a school proprietor. Except for if anyone misinterprets the curriculum, neither French nor Arabic is compulsory. The curriculum says you must study one local language and one international language. You have fulfilled the requirement if you study English so no one will force yo to study Arabic. Having said that, my question is, "What is wrong in studying Arabic Language?" Oh! Because the Koran is written in Arabic? So If I can speak Arabic, it automatically makes me a moslem? I pity people who reason like this.

No one is asking you to follow CAN. It's a free world.

Omoluabi16:
The hypocrisy is painful. folk wished he learned arabic so he could read the hadith. Who doesn't know Arabic and islam is intertwined?

I wonder o. They think it's fools they are discussing with.

ollah1:
Yh sure that's why I'm telling you

Ignorance is no excuse, fortunately.

ollah1:
By being their official language doesn't mean they are Muslims. There are Christian Arabs.

Yeah right. Tell that to the birds.

ollah1:
What makes them speak Arabic?
What makes Fracophone countries speak French​?
What makes Anglophone countries speak French?

French countries do not have a common religion.
Anglophone countries do not have a common religion.
Arabic countries have a common religion.

asuustrike2009:
Because we don't need here. Arabic can be optional if you are insisting on it but not compulsory. Making compulsory is the bone of contention. Why I don't opt in for Arabic is because we stand not to gain economic benefit from it compare to other languages .It's economic aspect that Fashola saw were wanted Chinese languages taught in public secondary schools in Lagos

Exactly. What economic impact does Arabic have for a student who has no intention of migrating to Saudi Arabia in the future, I can see someone pointing this out as a "potential benefit"?

The Chinese are a world power right now, so it makes economic sense introducing it to the schools, which is already happening in many countries.

Xtfield:
Nobody is being forced to study Arabic in Nigeria. It is optional. It is an elective just like French. Why is CAN objecting to those interested in studying Arabic from doing so? Why are they deliberately misinforming the public by equating Arabic Language with Islamic studies when they are two different subjects? By the way, If I was younger than I am now, I would have loved to study the language so I can read the Koran and Hadith in the original language they were written. Maybe then I will be able to get across the message of Christ to my moslem neighbors more effectively. There is nothing wrong in seeking knowledge.

I guess you did not read the article.. else you would have seen that when there are no CRK and French teachers (which occurs a lot since French teachers are also few), then students have no option but to do IRK, which is not right. No student should be made to study such if they don't want to.

Xtfield:
Arabic is a language in the same mould as English, French, German, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Ebira, Twi, Efik, and so on. Arabic language is not the same as Islamic Studies. It is not a new subject in the curriculum. It has always been there. It's just more popular in the North than the South. The Christian leaders are just playing on the ignorance and gullibility of the average Southern Christian.
That the Koran was written in Arabic does not make it an Islamic language. Arabic is the language of Arabs. The Bible that many of us are used to is written in English Language. Will it be right for anyone to advocate the scrapping of the study of English Language in Nigeria because it is a Christian Language? Let leaders understand that they are accountable to God and so shun all forms of sensationalism.
Now coming to the new syllabus, it is called Religion and National Values. The syllabus is designed in such a way that it fuses Religious studies with Social Studies, Civics and Security Education into one. The syllabus has a Christian Religious Studies option for Christians and Islamic Religious Studies option for Moslems. So I find it hard to comprehend the objection of the Christian leaders.
Now before you crucify me, let me clearly say that I am a Christian, of the Pentecostal fold. I own and run a school so I am very conversant with the syllabus and I do not see anything wrong with it.

I know you are trying to be politically correct here, but it so happens that the countries that have Arabic as their lingua franca are all Islamic countries. You cannot say the same for English, French or German. It certainly cannot be considered a religion-neutral language.


Reference:

Arabic (Arabic: العَرَبِيَّة‎‎, al-ʻarabiyyah [ʔalʕaraˈbij.ja]) is a Central Semitic language complex that first emerged in Iron Age northwestern Arabia and is now the lingua franca of the Arab world. It is named after the Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living from Mesopotamia in the east to the Anti-Lebanon mountains in the west, in northwestern Arabia, and in the Sinai peninsula.


Algeria (Arabic: الجزائر‎‎ al-Jazāʾir) (Tamazight is the other official language (minority), French is used in education, daily life and business)
Bahrain (Arabic: البحرين‎‎ al-Baḥrayn)
Comoros (Arabic: جزر القمر‎‎ Juzur al-Qamar) (Comorian and French are the other official languages)
Djibouti (Arabic: جيبوتي‎‎ Djībūtī) (French is the other official language)
Egypt (Arabic: مصر‎‎ Miṣr)
Iraq (Arabic: العراق‎‎ al-ʿIrāq) (Kurdish is the other official language (minority))
Jordan (Arabic: الأردن‎‎ al-ʾUrdun)
Kuwait (Arabic: الكويت‎‎ al-Kuwayt)
Lebanon (Arabic: لبنان‎‎ Lubnān) (French has a special status)
Libya (Arabic: ليبيا‎‎ Lībyā)
Mauritania (Arabic: موريتانيا‎‎ Mōrītānyā)
Morocco (Arabic: المغرب‎‎ al-Maġrib) (Tamazight is the other official language (minority), French is used in education, daily life and business)
Oman (Arabic: عمان‎‎ ʿUmān)
Palestine (Arabic: فلسطين‎‎ Filasṭīn)
Qatar (Arabic: قطر‎‎ Qaṭar)
Saudi Arabia (Arabic: المملكة العربية السعودية‎‎ al-Mammlaka al-ʿArabiyyah as-Saʿūdiyyah)
Somalia (Arabic: الصومال‎‎ aṣ-Ṣūmāl) (Somali is the other official language)
Sudan (Arabic: السودان‎‎ as-Sūdān) (English is the other official language (minority))
Syria (Arabic: سوريا‎‎ Sūryā)
Tunisia (Arabic: تونس‎‎ Tūnis) (French is used in education, daily life and business)
United Arab Emirates (Arabic: الإمارات العربيّة المتّحدة‎‎ al-ʾImārāt al-ʿArabiyyah al-Muttaḥidah)
Yemen (Arabic: اليمن‎‎ al-Yaman)

Meanwhile the Chibok girls who were supposedly writing WAEC had to be rehabilitated to learn English the lingua franca of the country and the language they would have used to write their exams.

Rather than focusing on the quality of education and also getting more children into schools and educating the general populace to a standard where they can compete with the rest of the world, introducing Arabic is their main headache right now

Chai! Na real wa. Really amazing.

asuustrike2009:
Making compulsory or the only alternative is the issue here

They are deliberately refusing to either read or understand the issue being raised.
In any case, people will stand their ground. Nigeria is NOT an Islamic country and cannot be coerced into becoming one.

Schools are for education, not religious indoctrination. Eod.

Where is Buhari?!!

He left since May 7, this is over a month. We cannot be ruled by proxy through a cabal.

dokiOloye:
U didn't even talk abt d 97% vs 5% statement
Abi d 'Nigerians are criminals' statement in London
Or deadwoods given appointments like Ogbeh and Adeosun
Mtcheeeew.

As a result, Cameron then had the guts to call the entire country fantastically corrupt. Thanks to a president who lacks tact, diplomacy and common sense.

Same man who said West Germany, in 2017. Completely out of touch.

In other words, Sarrki is admitting that Buhari has failed!

isnovic:
Basless indeed.

Why not say for instance, that the alternative being CRK and all muslim student forced to take CRK and where they refuse they should be mercilessly wiped like the boy in Kwara State.

If it sits well with the Islamic caliphate then it is all well.

Baseless indeed.

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. Galatians 5:9.

The heavens will fall down if it were the reverse.

Just imagine their priorities. BH is still an ongoing battle, what a place! Retrogressive human beings.

Gravas:
The administration is full of mediocre minds. This is a fact. Right from the day the administration was unveiled, a lot of political experts gave the verdict that PMB will fail. There are some morons who are not supposed to part of this govt. But up till now, they are there.

This is the first govt I would see proposing a NCE holder to head a whole NCC commission.

Mediocrity is an understatement.

Rather than focus on educating the numerous children / almajiris begging all over the place, it is how to introduce arabic their brains can think about. No wonder the region is where it is.

Education -- > Zero

Indoctrination -- > 100.

Result = Boko Haram

^ See the intolerant barbarian. Koropotopoto, come and carry your Indian friend outta here. I do not exchange words with barbarians.

Mai ruwa

He actually acts well. He's in "Husbands of lagos" series.

feelgoodInc:
did you read the post, a student was flogged mercilessly because he refused to study Arabic meanwhile the school didn't employ a CRK teacher and there was no French teacher. meanwhile those three subjects were compulsory

Just imagine. How can this be right?! Nigerians must not accept this.

feelgoodInc:
the truth is that CRK is compulsory but the school won't employ them because the majority is IRK, the minority won't want to study IRK, therefore that's where the hatred comes in.

Then they should remove both subjects from the curriculum.

For goodness sake, the North is battling with Boko haram at the moment, further religious indoctrination is the last thing they need right now.

mmsen:
School time should not be wasted on religious indoctrination, there's enough of that in Nigeria as is.

If they want then allow the children to have extra maths or science classes but religion is not needed.

Exactly. Basic sciences and other key subjects are not being emphasized, it is religious studies they are yammering on about. Mschew.

austinvsb1:
Whats being described here is absolutely grave and immoral injustice!! Making IRK the only compulsory alternative to french and not including CRK is just plain evil and must be resisted!

I see saudi arabia all over this!. It should not go away until rectified!!

But how can IRK be an alternative to French, as in, what is the link between the two? French is a recognized international language used in many countries, the alternative should be a similar language.

If IRK is going to be made compulsory, then CRK must be too. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.