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SeeWahala:
See the source of the news
Gazzete engr, is it engineer gazzete or what?

Another regular L agos I badan E xpressway media LIE from RoNu bigots again

Blackfire:
I am here to watch 2 great tribe in whose hands the gods have put the greatness of Africa and black race ....disgracing themselves over trivial issues.

EmperorCaesar:
Last election showed us that your population isnt even enough to influence things...The GRV-Igbo agenda couldnt even drop 300k votes in a state of over 20m



That aside, no one is fighting

Their request is a stupid one and wont even be attended to.

You dont even share boundaries with the region, why should they add Igbo to the curriculum and not add Hausa,Edo and the rest?

Or should they add the entire 250 other Nigerian languages to the curriculum too?

StaffofOrayan:
It is your right to prefer anyone!

madridguy:
Igbos condemn teaching only Yoruba language in Lagos-owned schools, threaten to sue Sanwo-Olu’s govt
“They should make it open: Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba – should be taught,” said the Igbo group’s leader.

News Agency of Nigeria • February 14, 2025
Sanwo-Olu in Igbo attire and Ohanaeze leaders
Sanwo-Olu in Igbo attire and Ohanaeze leaders
The Igbo Women Assembly, a pressure group, has vowed to drag the Lagos government to court over its legislation for the exclusive teaching of the Yoruba language in state-owned schools.

IWA national president Nneka Chimezie disclosed this at a news briefing in Umuahia on Thursday.

IWA is affiliated with Ohanaeze Ndigbo, an apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation.

Ms Chimezie said the group was worried over such legislation in a cosmopolitan state as Lagos.

According to her, such a law is improper because the government knows Lagos harbours many other tribes.

“They should make it open: Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba – should be taught,” she said.

The IWA president, however, hailed the Yoruba for preserving their language.

She called on the Igbo sons and daughters to join IWA in the campaign to stop the Igbo language from going into extinction.

She said the group would organise an event to celebrate the Igbo Language on February 21 to commemorate the United Nation’s Mother Tongue Day.

Ms Chimezie said the event, which would be held in Umuahia, would bring together many prominent sons and daughters of Igboland to discuss the way forward for the language.

“We are coming together to talk about our language, rub minds to see how we can stop our language from going into extinction.

“We are going to have a roundtable, after which we will come up with a communique,” the IWA president said.

She called on Governor Charles Soludo to checkmate the activities of Agunechemba – a vigilance group and stop the extra-judicial killings in Anambra.

“When they make arrests, they should hand the suspects over to the police for proper investigation and prosecution rather than killing them.

“Agunechemba has no right to arrest and kill, and there have been too much blood-letting and killing of our youths in the South-East,” Ms Chimezie said.

https://gazettengr.com/igbos-condemn-teaching-only-yoruba-language-in-lagos-owned-schools-threaten-to-sue-sanwo-olus-govt/

LagosOrigin:
Dem go collect what?

Why can't you talk like a civilised human being who benefited from awolowo stale free education?

And what makes you think when it starts that you can defeat the Igbos in Lagos ?

Only a mad man would think this way

EmeeNaka:
Yoruba can live as they want. Nobody is telling Yoruba how to live. We are telling Lagos state government, not Yoruba, how to be inclusive in the conduct of the affairs of government.

EmperorCaesar:
LASG is just like any other state in SW. They are at liberty to do whatever they so wish

Igbos, like Ijaws, Efiks, Hausas and others arent native to SW Nigeria, so why should only Igbos be added to the school curriculum and not the entire non-native languages?


You see your logic now? A very weak one

Ruke1989:
Abuja indigenous language of gbagyl tribe will be made compulsory in Abuja secondary schools when a gbagyl person becomes minister of fct. Abuja is a land of a minority tribe so Hausa cannot be imposed but rather the indigenous language of the gbagyl people using Yoruba people logic. Yoruba is too ethnocentric for any meaningful progress to take place in the Yoruba dominated states of the south west

EmeeNaka:
Yoruba can live as they want. Nobody is telling Yoruba how to live. We are telling Lagos state government, not Yoruba, how to be inclusive in the conduct of the affairs of government.

EmperorCaesar:
LASG is just like any other state in SW. They are at liberty to do whatever they so wish
Igbos, like Ijaws, Efiks, Hausas and others arent native to SW Nigeria, so why should only Igbos be added to the school curriculum and not the entire non-native languages?
You see your logic now? A very weak one

Tegabadguy:
you lie... ibo as being in lagos since 1892

Killerofpigs:
Fem dia..ozuor

Does your family own any property in LAGOS? Do they pay taxes in the same LAGOS?

Thunder fire you there.. ozuor
See this Mumu, am not claiming Lagosian oga, am a bonafide Son of oyo and am not claiming owning a house in Lagos nor my father, perhaps owing a property in a state doesn’t mean you are indigenous person of the state, that’s where you lack knowledge of understanding, ode, oponu, afofungbemu

Biafla go back to your region and be humiliated by your Ipob family
Omo Irankiran

legitnow1:
UNTIL TINUBU APC PACK THEIR BAG BACK TO IRABIJI LAGOS WILL CONTINUE TO GO DOWN THE SHITHOLE.


THE STATE OF LAGOS HAVE TRIBES THAT ARE NOT YORUBA INDIGIEOUS TO LAGOS.

THE EGUN ARE NOT YORUBA.


THE AWORI ARE NOT YORUBA.


THEN YOU HAVE TRIBES FROM ACROSS NIGERIA THAT HAVE BEEEN THEIR NOW FOR 100YEARS OR MORE.


SHOW RESPECT AND DECORUM TO THE DIVERSITY OF LAGOS STATE.

History555:
Who is this. How can you learn Anambra and kano in school.

EmeeNaka:
Lagos state government is trying to destroy the fabrics of unity. Why would Lagos state government think only Yoruba language is important in a multicultural state in Lagos? Igbos have strong presence in Lagos and has continued to contribute strongly to Lagos state economy.
Igbo language must be taught in Lagos state schools, if there are teachers and interested students.

LegendHero:
I no even know what to say. There are some news you read, that you just boil inside you.

It’s not their fault. If there are no consequence for action taken, they will continue to FA.

Adblg0610:
When a slave stays too long, he begins to challenge his master. The problem is that Yorubas are too liberal, that is why they claim that Lagos is no man’s land.
Is Abuja, Kaduna or Kano not cosmopolitan? Don’t they have Ohanaeze chapters in those states ? Why don’t they challenge the governments of those states?
It’s a ploy to spread the igbo language in order to eventually take over Lagos.

StaffofOrayan:
Yoruba don really suffer for this Nigeria o!
Every tribe wan tell Yoruba how to live
All of una dey mard, like really really mard
from the north to the south east

Zionmdde:
I think the rule is for government schools. Most government schools in SW have more than 90% yoruba population. So they can teach whatever they want. They are free to become so bigotic to teach all subjects in yoruba.

It's not everything we should be complaining about. The idiots who are driving bigotry in Lagos get satisfaction only when people complain. Ignore them and they will look foolish to themselves

Igbos should find private schools that teach Igbo and register their children. Or find ways to teach them igbo at home if they must go to government school. Silence is the best answer to those idiots

Bede2u:
Igbo language is taught in U.K and other non igbo states of Nigeria. What makes lagos different?

EmeeNaka:
Lagos state government is trying to destroy the fabrics of unity. Why would Lagos state government think only Yoruba language is important in a multicultural state in Lagos? Igbos have strong presence in Lagos and has continued to contribute strongly to Lagos state economy.
Igbo language must be taught in Lagos state schools, if there are teachers and interested students.

chopnaira:
Is Yoruba being taught in Anambra or Abia? What makes those two states different?

chopnaira:
Or better still, return to Ibo land to save themselves the stress.

legitnow1:
UNTIL TINUBU APC PACK THEIR BAG BACK TO IRABIJI LAGOS WILL CONTINUE TO GO DOWN THE SHITHOLE.


THE STATE OF LAGOS HAVE TRIBES THAT ARE NOT YORUBA INDIGIEOUS TO LAGOS.

THE EGUN ARE NOT YORUBA.


THE AWORI ARE NOT YORUBA.


THEN YOU HAVE TRIBES FROM ACROSS NIGERIA THAT HAVE BEEEN THEIR NOW FOR 100YEARS OR MORE.


SHOW RESPECT AND DECORUM TO THE DIVERSITY OF LAGOS STATE.