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The Lagos State Government has charged parents to preserve the Yoruba heritage through the means of communication with their children.

Mr. Olanrewaju Odesanya, the Special Adviser to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission and Regional integration, gave the charge at the maiden edition of Yoruba Week, on Wednesday, in Ikeja.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the state government in April announced plans to dedicate the last week of September every year as ”Yoruba Week”, to celebrate the Yoruba culture.

The event is expected to showcase the cultural heritage of the Yoruba people through traditional music, dance, art exhibitions, and delectable culinary delights. Odesanya said that parents should make it a point of duty to speak in Yoruba language while communicating with them. He also ened parents to ensure that their children and wards communicate same with them.

He said that there was the need to preserve the Yoruba language, as it was going into extinction.
According to him, the Yoruba Week is geared to showcase, promote, champion the rich socio-cultural heritage as a race, as a people, above all, as a nation.
“Our heritage and history must not go in vain, hence, the need to conscientise our people, home and abroad,” he said.

Odesanya said that in order to preserve the Yoruba heritage, of the Lagos State House of Assembly now communicate with Yoruba language during plenary on Thursdays.

Mr. Jamiu Alli-Balogun, the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, said the Yoruba Week was centred on culture, heritage and language. “How do we preserve our language? It has been predicted that it will go into extinct come 2050. So, we are here today just to let the world know that there is a language that is universal.

“It is universal because it is not only spoken in Nigeria, we have Yoruba people in Benin Republic; Togo; some parts of Ghana; Jamaica; Cuba and Brazil. “In all these countries mentioned, we have that promotion of Yoruba culture, heritage and language that more or less being practiced more than we that are in our own space speaking that language. “It is a common thing in our household, where we don’t allow our children to speak that lovely language, the language that is embedded with so much wisdom, knowledge, and we just want to make u-turn to correct that impression. “We need to let our children know the value of our language, the value of our culture and the value of our heritage,” Alli-Balogun said.

He said that the Lagos State Government had a law that mandated the speaking of language in schools. According to him, principals and the tutor-general have been called to implement the speaking of Yoruba in schools, majorly to boost students’ understanding of what was taught. He said that according to UNICEF, the best way a student or people could learn better was to be taught in his or her indigenous language, and that starts from one to nine years old.

“They can actually learn better and faster, when they are taught in indigenous language,” the commissioner said. On her part, Mrs Adefunmilayo Tejuosho, a former Deputy Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, said that settings the last week of September of every year as Yoruba Week was a good development. Tejuosho said that during the Seventh Assembly, she moved the motion that plenary should be conducted in Yoruba language on Thursdays.

She said that it had encouraged the assembly to improve in their Yoruba language speaking, and also encourage their children to speak Yoruba. “The younger generation must be proud of their culture. We are Yorubas, and we must be proud to speak Yoruba and to practice the tradition and the culture of the Yoruba people.“I feel that charity begins at home. Once we start training our young ones, if we speak Yoruba to our children and guide them in the ways to do, to work, to conduct themselves, they will be better off,” Tejuosho said.

https://guardian.ng/news/lagos-charges-parents-to-preserve-yoruba-heritage/

Promotion of indigenous languages is good for a child's development.

This is a good development.
May God bless Yoruba land and may God bless Nigeria for ever!

Excellent. Preserving the culture and heritage of the Indigenes is extremely important.

Preserve your heritage but don't use it to disturb other tribes unconstitutionally

Hmm

Yoruba language will soon be among the world most spoken languages. It will even be used in western countries.

Brendaniel:
Hmmmm

👀 Brendaniel dia ris godu ooooo

Mindlog:
Promotion of indigenous languages is good for a child's development.

true indeed

Gone are those days when you get beaten for speaking yoruba in school

This is very important. I have seen many parents train their kids who grow up not knowing how to speak their indigenous language. Its really bad. This issue cuts across all dialects in Nigeria .

This "Lagos is no man land" slogan pain Sanwo Olu to the bone.

He took the whole thing personal

Good development..

Nice initiative

Charity indeed begins from home

adamusuleiman3:


https://guardian.ng/news/lagos-charges-parents-to-preserve-yoruba-heritage/

Good….proudly Lagos Yoruba of the Egba clan, those people from land of haters can continue to hate

Which heritage 😏😏

If it's the Yourba heritage I this post with 5 cows

My first time in Cambridge I saw people speaking YORUBA I was surprised

I have lived in Lagos for over 15yrs still can't speak Yoruba ...I don't know why! I don't even understand

All cultures and tradition should be protected.

Yoruba just dey wake up from sleep.

Brendaniel:
Preserve your heritage but don't use it to disturb other tribes unconstitutionally

Na how them take disturb you?

Brendaniel:
Preserve your heritage but don't use it to disturb other tribes unconstitutionally

Chinedu

Shinjawestern:


Chinedu

Nurudeen....

tamdun:

Na how them take disturb you?

Is Oro constitutional?

The SW Prominent Obas and traditional rulers are behind the Bad images Yoruba people get in public

Preserving Yoruba heritage is a collective responsibility.

Most of all, the Yoruba language must be made compulsory in schools. Children MUST read and write in Yoruba. This doesn't stop the learning of English. But then, the ultimate goal should be to gradually free ourselves from the English language.

Culture is language!! "Traditional music, dance, art exhibitions, and delectable culinary delights" aren't culture, rather they're expression of culture. They're the part of culture that can't be put in words, therefore, you express it by DOING it.

Culture is condensed language. The way your language creates it grammar, syntax, etc programs your brain to do something in a unique way, including "traditional music, dance, art exhibitions, and delectable culinary delights."

If Yoruba becomes the first black race to right this wrong, I'll disown my ethnicity and convert to a Yoruba man

RealLordZeus:
This "Lagos is no man land" slogan pain Sanwo Olu to the bone.

He took the whole thing personal

He has sensed the mood of the electorates. Whatever the majority of the electorates wants is what he wants.

Getting back to our senses... In my days in school, you called it vernacular and that brought us here. Not until foreigners started asking you for it that you realised how important your language was. Self confidence actually makes a man.

Very excellent initiative.
Some parents speak english to their children at home but the children will not be able to English language in WAEC, GCE& NECO , they still need to pay for learning foreign language when applying for visa.

Good development.

I studied English language in the universiy, but I teach Yoruba language in addition to my main subject.

Èkọ́ Yorùbá dára púpọ̀.

Very very important and they should it as law to compulsory their language in school except higher institution whoever not happy with it he or she is free to return to his village.

Some people destroyed their own culture, became one biblical country unity beggar, arrogant, abusive, ingrate, invaders, overly proud, insultive, arsonist and these same people trying to transfer all these satanic norms to other peoples land when stopped they go online and starting barking like a toothless bulldog firing insults the ndd there in agony and these same people won't allow any "stranger" to breath in their region, "they love to take but never wish to give"

Sorry I didn't mentioned any region so if you think your region fit in to such satanic norms then quote me and receive early morning words missiles.

SW I stand by you anyday anytime in your claity to uphold your region, your culture, your integrity, your understanding, and respect for others whoever want to hate you can f u c k to hell.

The initiative is a welcome idea.

Brendaniel:
Preserve your heritage but don't use it to disturb other tribes unconstitutionally

And here is one of the fools shouting Biafra day and night on this forum


Do people who make these kind of posts above appear as genuine secessionists ?

0koro, you will eventually learn to behave .

The only place on earth you behave as somewhat normal beings is in the core north because those ones have since implanted sense in your flat heads .