OKAIGHELE:
Indeed, these were our nine national languages of colonial era and early independent rule.

1. I know Edo which i come from is still taught in schools. In fact for Edo , It is even taught in all public and majority of private schools up to junior secondary school level.

2. Albeit, before now, some of our elites may not want their children to learn Edo first because they don’t want their children to have issues with pronunciation when speaking English, but many a times, they never get to learn it at all. But of late, our elders, Oba who sense a dearth of the language have started speaking for Edos to take learning the language very personal.

As a result of that consciousness and awakening, there has been positive movement towards that effect as scholars who are educated in Edo language has taken to YouTube as a means to teach Edo people and youth who were born in Nigeria/those who were born outside who seem not to have a full grasp of the language how to communicate in it effectively .


3. Since It is basically free as it is on YouTube, i have seen many positive reactions from those Binis who were born abroad and are willing to learn the language. How did i know this? Some of the comments one YouTube below these videos attest to that fact. You see people thanking the organizers of such programs in the comments, talking of how they migrated when they were just two With their parents but they are getting better etc


4. I don’t know of any language classes in Benin city, except the fact that Edo language is taught in all public schools and majority of private schools in Benin city from primary one to jss3. And also large number of Edo language lesson videos on YouTube.

5. There are economic advantages in learning all languages no matter how small it may seem. We are great farmers, and in our villages, many old people especially women still do not have proficiency when speaking pidgin and certainly would sell for a cheaper price for one speaking in her language than another speaking in pidgin.


I lost my maternal grandmother last year, she was 84 years old, she couldn’t communicate in English or pidgin even though her husband read English and literature at the university of Lagos. Some of us who stayed with her compulsorily had to learn Edo in our generation in order to communicate with her,


She sold food provisions while she was alive, garri, yam etc as they were great farmers too. Whenever a non Edo is around to buy her products, she will call on any of us to interpret what the person is saying for her. Overtime some of her consistent customers had to learn Edo as a result so they would be able to communicate with her effectively . She certainly would have sold her products at a cheaper price for someone that she would not need an interpreter to communicate to.

Another positive one. Thank you so much.

MODs please move to front page

Dancebreaker:
Yes, they are ALL still important.

Some are thought in some areas but funding is poor.

Economically, these languages are still used in rural areas (where over 50% of Nigerians still live) for communication and commerce.

Yes, ready to learn more for free or even pay.

Personally, certainly for Edo/Benin (and other Edoid languages like Urhobo/Isoko, Esan, Afemai, etc) Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo.

BUT colonial mentality and elitist behaviour of educated parents make them believe that English is superior. It is not.

Seun, Myndd and mods, FT please. This is about our culture.

Some positive feedback. Thank you for this

I want to carry out a survey on these Nigerian languages:

1. Tiv
2. Ijaw
3. Edo
4. Fulfulde/fulani
5. Kanuri
6. Ibibio
7. Hausa
8. Igbo
9. Yoruba

1. Are these languages still taught in schools in their various locations?

2. Are the indigenes/originators of these languages still keen on passing their culture/language to their younger generations?

3. If yes to question 2, are people willing to attend free classes to learn their historical languages?

4. Are people willingly to pay little amounts to send their children to their language classes?

5. Any economic value of learning these languages?


Please help me answer these questionnaire, it’s a survey/research I’m working on.

MOD, please help me to push to limelight. Thank you 🙏

If every governor can dedicate to doing only 2 or 3 things right within their 4 year tenure, they should be voted to do a second tenure.

1. Forex rate
2. Electricity
3. Petroleum

If this government can fix these 3 problems before their tenure ends, I will vote for them in 2027.

Mrexcell:
So there are places like this in the core north yet fulaniherdsmen won't allow southern farmers work in their farms? Just look at the lush green forest.

Most cows in the south are owned by the southerners and Fulani herdsmen are employed to graze them, that is why they are lurking around the south.

Zonefree:

You were not invited prior to the event is enough reason for you to leave immediately.

But, as a hungry man, they offered you seat, food and drink, you accepted not knowing it's your beloved pregnant babe's introduction.

You're a disgrace to humanity. It's more noble to have a bandit as a son than to have you as a son. Tueh!

I shake my head for you. Your reasoning is very poor starting from your first statement and it shows you lack reading comprehension.

You are the DISGRACE TO HUMANITY here, you big f👀l

Kobicove:


Some people who are fortunate think other people are lazy

And to be sincere, some people are actually lazy, they lack self motivation.

Aboks:
Very sweet meat with pepper and onions

🤮🤢 na everything una dey chop. No control of appetite

Nitah1:
Good evening nairaland family,I have never come her to solicit for assistance beforehand but the situation have become critical.
We have nothing to eat any longer especially this might.
Please if you cannot do it for and my wife do it for my two kids.

Please save a life.

Nothing is too small.

8060206865 opay.

Check the job/vacancy section of nairaland, there are many job vacancies there, apply to as many as possible.

Working for money is more dignifying than begging for money.

May God bless us all. Amen 🙏

Imehsolo1:
Maybe the badluck is from you or someone else.meanwhile,the badluck of hunger is following me.save me 8 5 2....8 18 67 9 3 sterling bank

Check the job/vacancy section of nairaland, there are many job vacancies there, apply to as many as possible.

Working for money is more dignifying than begging for money.

May God bless us all. Amen 🙏

I’ve experienced this countless times.
Hard stony shit 💩 edges. Mehn!, I dey use my finger pull the stuck werey out, the rest go just flow down easily.

Na only God know wetin dey make am hard for inside body wey heat dey.

DUKEOFIBADAN:
Please farmers I need advice on what to consider before buying farmland for livestock and greenhouse farming ( layers, piggery and cattle) I’m interested in buying farmland in one of this location in Ogun state but I don’t know which one to choose. The first land is at isiun under obafemi owode local government which goes for #800k per acre and I intend to purchase 3 acres. The farmland is closer to the express with good road network and good mobile reception. The second land is located at alabata in Abeokuta under odeda local government, 40 minutes drive from Funnab and it goes for #250k per acre and I intend to purchase 10 acres. The farmland is 40 minutes drive from FUNNAB, manageable road network, bad mobile network reception, virgin soil for better farming. Please experience farmers in the house I need your contribution to know which farmland I should go for. Thanks in advance

These farmlands seem expensive. Are there no cheaper ones like 150k per acre?

Anyway, it also depends on what you want to use it to build.

Good 👍🏾
Prices must learn to come down in this country.

It remains the price of petroleum and the stability of electricity.

Na why I dey try prevent adding weight despite my love for food and no stress

Address insecurities on the farms first and see people go back to farming

Didi2d:


Seriously, I don't know why the government are wasting time on border opening.
They should lift ban on rice, cos I don't understand why rice iss still expensive.
For over eight years now, buhari government in other to encourage local farmers closed the borders, instead this move to make rice surplus and cheep, farmers decided to do otherwise

Sincerely I wonder why our local rice is costly, almost same price as imported

ImoleNaija:
Why e come be like say I follow them come look for this life. Na only me no get talent

More power to your elbow, girls.

We all have, you should haven’t discovered yours that’s why it seems that way to you.

Kingbuhari:
Fantastic nonsense... No wonder they called us generator republic, people are looking for cheaper way to get green electricity and these one's still struggling with urine generator... Build mimi dam and supply electric to Ur neighbourhood maybe we start from there

I hope you have built your own mini dam for your neighbourhood? Snap it, let’s see it.

Samueltemi337:
A very dumb invention coming from a very dumb gender

Ode

jesmond3945:
na welsh uni. They wan make you pay 21600 for 1 year and not 8k for 2 lol. Oyibo yahoo yahoo.

I tire. So, no bi only Nigerians dey scam, they follow join.

jesmond3945:
imagine! which uni

Swansea

I applied for a 2 year full time MSc Data Analytic course of about £8,000 and I was offered an admission of 1 year Computer science course of £21,600 and was advised to accept it.

Na so I just dey look them for my mail. Even if I can save up to that amount within a short period of time, I no dey do.

Soon, UK will be an ugly dirty version of Europe with the way Africans especially Nigerians are rushing there in.
They are not even learning the good parts of economic growth and development, instead they are bringing their backward lifestyle to dominate the place.

Awon olodo.

As a single lady, nothing should ever stop you from working hard and pursuing your dreams, whether it’s laziness or the thought of getting married one day. When a man finally comes into your life, he wouldn’t be able to place a hold on your purpose just like that while he pursues his.

Remember, men are selfish.

NuCypher:

It's a french province. It is not just necessary, it is important. It is important for your survival, for you job, and for your relationship with others.

Thank you friend. I have to start learning it.

Could it be necessary to learn French if your interest is moving to Quebec, Canada?

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Buy these and be purifying your drinking water at home. Water is never supposed to be expensive. It's a free gift of nature just like air.

Uchesis:
My neighbour's wife is so happy sitting at home all day and yelling at her children or plaiting our female co-tenents hair and gossiping about other people who have gone to work.


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Nigerian life

Angy55:
They should come and import Ladies from Nigeria to marry the men in China