The House of Representatives may consider two bills to allow for more national languages outside English as Nigeria’s lingua franca.

Reacting to a piece of technological initiative by the Bildup Integrated Services to encourage the apprenticeship system and boost skills acquisition, Hon Kalu the Deputy Speaker of the House of Reps. said that efforts are being made to make the three major languages of Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba official to encourage the apprenticeship system.

He reasoned that many youth communicate better in their mother tongues when learning a skill than using English as the nation’s lone official language


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/11/unemployment-reps-to-consider-bill-for-national-apprenticeship-scheme/

Hi

ALLOW THE ENGLISH BUT STILL MANDATE USAGE OF LOCAL LINGUA AT HOME.

If my child started school in the east and later on relocates to the west or north,will he or she start learning another language?
By forcing minorities to adopt wazobia languages,you speed up the extinction of their languages .
Which language would Wike's ppl adopt?Which body decides which language a state would adopt.
Also in the future,Nigeria would be erased from native english speakers.

Long overdue. If some constituencies can adopt Hausa with Arabic and reject education via armed struggle, adoption of other major languages as official language should be seriously considered.
Ijaw, Tiv, and Calabar too should be considered also.

J

I'm not impressed

It's good. To make it more effective, make states pass laws that will domesticate the law especially in states with more than one dominant language. In a state like Edo, there's Bini, Ishan, Afemai, Akoko etc . Such states may struggle to choose which to adapt. Check my signature for free stuffs!

How does that help this country please

Please add pidgin language too


English na white man language

What about other indigenous languages?

Let us stick to English.

Perfect..

Then remove the Arabic writing from our Nigerian army logo

Yoruba language...should be made official after English language because it's already a global language.

Then our reps from the south South should also sponsor motions in Ijaw, Urhobo, Isoko, Benin, Esan, Auchi, Calabar etc

The quality of our Lawmakers is the problem of this country.
When you have illiterates as Lawmakers making laws for PhD and masters degree holders and Professors of Law.

This is rubbish.. in a country of over 250+ ethnic groups and languages?

These guys don't have any meaningful impact to make in that House of Reps. It's obvious they are bereft of ideas.

There are many problems faced by Nigerians and this might just be the least why not make bills on more important issues.

Planning planning,why not do and let's see

How about Berom, Tarok, and Mwaghavul? It’s not fair o

This is the problem of Nigeria. Look at, a country having three national language. How do we understand ourselves. How do we move forward when we are divided into three. Nigeria has too many tribe, so we understand ourselves and move forward

What of the Ijaw language, urhobo, ikweres and Nupe language et al

Truths9ja:
What of the Ijaw language, urhobo, ikweres and Nupe language et al

Ikwere is Igbo forget it.

Nah nah nah

English is the best for Nigeria because of the multi languages

Nonsense you can speak your vernacular in your house

Longinyamapucci:


Ikwere is Igbo forget it.

Ikwerre is not Igbo, respect them...💯

Longinyamapucci:


Ikwere is Igbo forget it.

oga rest ! Who ask you if they r Igbo or not ??

Longinyamapucci:


Ikwere is Igbo forget it.

nope not true joor . Like telling me that Nupe language is the same language with Hausa language. Ikwere tribe are totally different from Igbo tribe now. Igbo people may lived among them like the way Igbo people lived among Yoruba people in Yoruba land.

LifeofDream:

Ikwerre is not Igbo, respect them...💯

Ikwere is a dielect of Igbo. Funny enough they are different variants of ikwere Igbo. I even heard ogbakor ikwere has tried to look for a unified ikwere language but it seems not to be working out. Most of the Igboid tribes understand themselves when they speak but they choose not to communicate with each other because doing that would involve them using Igbo Izugbe-- Haha...
Doing that would remind them of who they truly are. Here in Omoku where I am partly from the ogba language is slowing dying due to the influx of strangers. Well the only solution to addressing the issue is adopting the Igbo Izugbe.
But will they be willing to do it? Well time would tell

When they are not the only tribes in Nigeria.

They should not even try this rubbish!

Nigeria don’t have one indigenous language

Why dont we just adopt pidgin instead of the major languages considering nigeria has many languages

What of other minorities? I'm Igbo though

TradingGod:
Please add pidgin language too


English na white man language

pidgin is a variant of white man language too