₦airaland Forum

olawalepopoola:
Like it or hate it, the Yorubas have taken the bull by the horn. Ambode will forever be remembered for taking this giant step to preserve our language from going into extinction. All Yoruba states MUST enact this law. Let them call it TRIBALISM. We are not the first to do it Nigeria and definitely won't be the last. At least one man put all his tribe man in charge of all our security networks in Nigeria while another allowed his wife to freely steal our Commonwealth.
Our IPOB brothers should learn that fighting is strategic not shouting. Yorubas are being strategic on this issue.

LaudableXX:
Continue....one day, you will make sense! Everyone knows UNILAG is owned by the federal govt, yet you gleefully cited it as a Lagos state institution in your last post?

LaudableXX:
You just shot yourself in the foot! University of Lagos is NOT owned by Lagos state. It is a federal tertiary institution.

LaudableXX:
Go back and read the attachment very well. General Studies is a mandatory course at 100 level for all tertiary institutions in Anambra. And Igbo is a compulsory part of that course. There is nowhere in the law enacted by Lagos State House of Assembly, that makes Yoruba as important as English or Mathematics. It only states that a credit pass in the language, is an entry requirement for students who wish to attend any of the 5 higher institutions owned by the state. You are the one trying to put a false spin on it, and mislead people. It is not by force to attend a tertiary institution owned by Lagos state, is it?,Go to a federal institution, or attend anyone owned by the 35 other states of the federation. Inugo?

By Dapo Akinrefon Lagos — THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State has kicked against the enforcement of the Yoruba language preservation and promotion law 2018, calling on Governor Akinwumi Ambode to suspend the law.

Lagos State PDP members In a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Taofik Gani, the party argued that the bill recently signed into law by the Governor was an early misapplication and revenue coloration in bad faith.

The party stated that the lack of due considerations by the Lagos House of Assembly “in making and passing the bill gives one strong doubts on the competence of the house to deliver flawless legislation.”

It accused the state government of hastily directing all its tertiary institutions and other schools to demand credit pass in Yoruba language before any applicant could be qualified for admission.

“To the PDP, this is a clear indication that the law is more interested in revenue, thus tainted and in bad faith,” the party stated. According to the party “Frankly speaking the law was not brilliantly considered and its hasty applications make it laughable.

To us in PDP and a lot of other groups, the law is ethnocentric and direct attack on all non Yoruba residents in the state. It has also usurped the inherent powers of the Senate in the various institutions to determine their qualifications for entry. Imagine an Igbo or Hausa with 9 distinctions but a pass in Yoruba language.

Such will be denied admission into our schools. Whereas by the combined provisions of Sections: 17(2c) (3a) and 18 (1) of the 1999 Constitution of the FRN (as amended), all citizens should have equal rights and fair opportunities to education in any part of the country.”

Indeed, this vindictive law will eventually be applicable to persons employed or seeking employments in the state establishments” “We will notwithstanding advise Governor Ambode to get careful with bills emanating from and passed by the Lagos State House of Assembly to save Lagosians and the state from further embarrassment.”

headhunter1:
you're a yeroba Christian am sure of that 100%
do you know that yeroba Muslims loves their hausa Muslim brothers more than their yeroba blood brothers?

Igbos loves yerobas but you can't reason with a yeroba Muslim because to him caliphate comes first

12submarine:
Oga, who built Lagos is not my business, let each state controls its resources, that is a key to national development. Let's stop robbing Peter to pay Paul.

12submarine:
Leeches. That is why they are against resource control. Apart from Lagos, all states in the ne, nw, nc, se and sw are bloody parasites.

Danladi7:
but why is it that its the only Igbo that are wailing?

resurgentxtian4:
Let’s see what you igbos will do. You guys are giving the haters of your tribe (very many I must say) ammo to nail you in yorubaland. Just continue your folly and see if your tribe won’t be taught a lesson.

You will tell us if Lagos looks like your village in the east.

asuustrike2009:
First of all am not Yoruba
Secondly Lagos is the way it is because it accommodated different people. That it accommodated many persons doesn't give room for non indigenes to lay claims.
Thirdly Lagos can do without oil money. Revenue from tax alone can feed 10 states in Nigeria. Should the country break, Lagos can stand very well compared to other states

asuustrike2009:
Those persons should learn their language. If French is compulsory in France, I see no reason why Yoruba shouldn't.

ODVanguard:
Guy, una no even fear god. Smh. After showing you evidence that your people have already set the precedent long before this Lagos move, out of shame you choose to put a spin on it. Na wah for una o. But honestly we Yoruba's don't give a flipping fvck bout your feeling, neither does Ambode. The law has been enacted so you can eat your heart out or go and hang sef, ko kan aiye.

bakynes:
Respond to this;
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/university-make-igbo-language-compulsory-course-students