₦airaland Forum

Edu3Again:
Since it does not involve violence & blood; it's safe to say it's not the North.

So where is it ?

grandstar:
Breakdance if i remember clearly was invented in the early 1980's.

Chris Brown needs to read up about hip hop history

I saw this a few days ago.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXbcGxrM7A0

https://mobile.twitter.com/tyrone345345/status/972574989802065920

He called Trump a f***ing mo.ron

gbosaa:
That is not the original song Naptu2.

I know (it's written in the description that it is a remix).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbELEUfmIA

Rapid Response Squad @rrslagos767

Serious motor accident @ Lekki Toll Gate involving a 4wd and a passenger bus. Many of the passengers sustained various degree of injuries. LRU towing truck removing the vehicles. Lagos ambulance service providing support.

https://mobile.twitter.com/rrslagos767/status/972740897329893376

Rapid Response Squad @rrslagos767

Serious motor accident @ Lekki Toll Gate involving a 4wd and a passenger bus. Many of the passengers sustained various degree of injuries. LRU towing truck removing the vehicles. Lagos ambulance service providing support.

https://mobile.twitter.com/rrslagos767/status/972740897329893376

Anambra Motor Company = ANAMCO.

Joseph1832

mfm04622:
Not workable. Imagine having 200 pupils in Primary 1 and you have 70 different mother tongues? Where will you get the lands in cities to build schools? How will the schools be managed? Is it efficient to have teachers teach 5 pupils? Or even 1? Where will you find the teachers? It is because there are not enough teachers that Youth Corpers are being used to teach. Imagine the efforts required to translate each approved textbooks into 500 different language? Also this will also limit interactions between pupils and students if different ethnic groups since time spent in class will be spent with only there fellow students from same ethnic group. It would have been different if we all speak same language like others (Russians, German, Italian, etc) who speak same language

1) Is it efficient? No.

2) Can it be done in Nigeria? Absolutely.

You are not considering the fact that, although there are 500 languages in Nigeria, people who speak these languages are usually concentrated in certain geographical areas and you are also not taking into account the number of people that speak some of those languages (there are many languages that are only spoken by a handful of people). It's not as if 500 languages are spoken in all the 36 states of the country.

Although I was one of the people that was opposed to the policy in the 1980s, I have absolutely no doubt that Nigerian politicians and administrators can implement the policy if they want to and they can justify it too.

Do you know the unemployment rate in Nigeria and the number of people that will be employed if the policy is implemented? Do you know the opportunity it will provide for Nigerian politicians to gain political capital out of this? Do you know how much, for example, Lateef Jakande invested in his free education policy (that was another policy that I had reservations about, but he did what experts said was impossible) ? Do you know how he created lots of schools and classrooms where there were none before? You don't even need to build many new schools and classrooms, what you need is proper time management using existing schools and classrooms. The private sector will be more than happy to produce the textbooks (based on guidelines provided by government). It means more business for them. States that provide mother tongue education can also receive funding from the Federal Government and international organisations that advocate for and support mother tongue education like UNESCO and Wycliffe (this was the case in Kenya and Chad).


I have absolutely no doubt that Nigerian politicians and administrators can implement it if they want to.

mfm04622:
Not practical. We speak about 500 languages in Nigeria. Teaching every child in his/her mother tongue mean the following
1) You need more classrooms. Especially in cities. In some schools, you will need up to 10 classes per level
2) You need more teachers to teach the classes. You may need 10 arithmetic teachers
3) You need textbooks in each language
4) Other issues. Like, What language do you use to teach foreigners?

1-3 = More investment, jobs, opportunities, etc.

4 = The official foreign languages in Nigeria, English and French. Note that, as part of the compromise, kids are taught at least one Nigerian language and one foreign language (usually English and French) and some states have introduced additional languages, eg, Lagos State's introduction of Chinese.

Every policy has its pros and cons. Research has been done by lots of international bodies, including UNESCO, which show that children learn better in their mother tongue and there are enough people in Nigeria who want to preserve their indigenous languages and who are ready to give it a go. Many state governments in Nigeria are willing to implement this policy and they will do it, especially when you consider what I wrote in 1-3 above - more textbooks, more employment, more investment and more opportunities for politicians to award contracts.


Mynd44 Check out Professor Fafunwa's research work and experiment with mother tongue education from 1970-1976

https://archive.org/stream/ERIC_ED350120/ERIC_ED350120_djvu.txt

https://www.globalpartnership.org/blog/children-learn-better-their-mother-tongue