Donjazet2:


I see you left out Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia. Countries who escaped poverty but maintained using English language as their lingua franca. People who still adopted "foreign religions" but are thriving regardless.

I still maintain that clinging onto tribal sentiments is useless. Like entirely useless. I want to think that Africans of all would understand this better. The number one cause of strife and war in Africa is usually tribal differences. We choose to continue to see each other differently. And I think that this teaching of "mother tongue" in schools deepen that.

The use of English language (a common language) in Nigeria has been nothing but a blessing to us. There is no downside to all of us communicating and understanding each other with the same language.
It really doesn't matter if the Yoruba language or the Igbo language or the Hausa language dies off in so far as we progress forward as a people. By progress, I mean economically, socially, technologically and one can argue that our tribal sentiments and differences actually slow down these aforementioned progresses.

You need to leave behind this mentality of African culture superiority or the likes. It is truly a meaningless sentiment to have.

A001:

If it's not effective, why is it being practiced in many developed countries and other nations such as Germany, Japan, France, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and others?

Well, you once said English is the best language in the world sha, yet the English don't see Yoruba as the best language in the world.

I know Yoruba is something to be ashamed of for people like you; it's local and backward.

izzou:
Japan has only one language, and different dialects.

Nigeria has 250 languages, and uncountable dialects

When a child learns Physics in Yoruba, he will come and write WAEC, NECO, JAMB, and the rest in English.

Or when he learns it in Yoruba, he gets an admission into UNIMAID, and begins to learn it in Hausa again.

Call me slave, but it is not worth it

Donjazet2:


But you do know that the average igala man cares for nothing about Yoruba. Same thing with an ogoni man in rivers, or Ebira in logo or urhobo in Delta. One thing we all do care about though is the English language because it is the agreed upon language that we use to understand ourselves.

You're really making this cultural and tribal thing such a big deal!

And I dare say you're even being myopic and selfish. Because try to think of this, the ogoni tribe is a Kalahari tribe in rivers state are a minority tribe with not up to 200,000 People. There are many other small tribes like these scattered across Nigeria hence us having over 750 different tribes in such a small enclave.

Do you advocate that all these tribes start teaching maths, physics, chemistry in all the different languages? Common man!

GloriousGbola:


A001 should write 'hello world' in yoruba

GloriousGbola:


A001 should write 'hello world' in yoruba

iamoyindamola:
Blueraydick i read some part in cuba, brazil speak yoruba same with some west africa countries close to us

iamoyindamola:

I actually struggle to write yoruba sentence because of the ami ohun but i can read it very
What shege is doing is first of it kind you will be surprise people will buy into it even though some will feel it is not necessary

A001:

As I said before, science is best taught in local languages. Teachers in each tribe (whether containing 100,000 or 10,000 people) should teach STEM in the local language of their people.

You're ashamed of your Ibo heritage. But you'll be crying marginalization all about. You don marginalize yourself already.

izzou:


Me i no understand at all

The moment you pass Ondo state, you are in another environment that speaks an entirely different language

So if i did Junior secondary education in Ondo state, learning STEM in Yoruba, i will have to start learning STEM again in Bini language, if I relocate there for SS studies

Using countries with just one language to defend this is unreasonable to me

Nigeria has over 250 languages...Over...

A001:
Look at the way they all reason. There's a reason why no Physics department in any Nigerian universities has been able to invent even the simplest of gadgets.

It's simply because the foundation is faulty. I know most of them here crammed concepts in Physics, Chemistry, and Math in secondary schools.

It's what most of us did to pass exams, and because of this lack of understanding, students can't remember and apply what they've been taught and create things with it.

I didn't expect less from people ashamed of their language and culture. It's an African thing to see himself as inferior to others and put foreign cultures above his.

BlueRayDick:


Speaking Yoruba is something almost anybody who lives amongst Yoruba can do; even some Americans who migrate to naija can speak the Language fairly, reading and writing Yoruba is a different ball game entirely. I pride myself to be able to read and write the language well, but several others can't. Yoruba's dey get F9 steady for Yoruba Language in WAEC.

Now imagine learning concepts in Yoruba.

Donjazet2:


There is a big difference between being ashamed of something and not caring one bit about something. Being ashamed assumes that one cares about the thing. Being indifferent means you JUST DON'T CARE!

I do not care about my tribe. The elders in my village are totally meaningless to my life. My father has a chieftaincy title from our hometown and I know that apart from maybe egoism, it is virtually meaningless.

Tribal affiliation has no place in the modern world, you are vastly overstating the importance of tribal culture in the modern world.

izzou:


Me i no understand at all

The moment you pass Ondo state, you are in another environment that speaks an entirely different language

So if i did Junior secondary education in Ondo state, learning STEM in Yoruba, i will have to start learning STEM again in Bini language, if I relocate there for SS studies

Using countries with just one language to defend this is unreasonable to me

Nigeria has over 250 languages...Over...

GloriousGbola:


we crammed because of INCOMPETENT teachers who knew fuckall.

teachers too mentally lazy to impart knowledge

there is a reason most people who go to western nations for further studies only have bad things to say about nigerian lecturers

anyway, keep on

GloriousGbola:


What he is promoting conciously or unconsciously is eradication /erasure of relevance of any language that is not in our big five/six.

A polished and systematic overwriting of Nigerian minorities

You are not significant - no stem for you! Learn our language or fail!

A001:

Yes, most of the teachers are bad. This shows the current mode of teaching is poor and has failed miserably.

It needs to be improved and teaching STEM in native languages is one of the solutions needed to improve the system.

STEM should be taught in both a native language and English so science can develop in the local language in this part of the world, and not only in English which is for the English people.

GloriousGbola:


It is my foolish jjc kinsmen who are aligning with these jokers I feel sorry for. It is nothing I have not seen before. Dyed in the wool, hardcore tribalists forming cosmopolitan crusader. The Mask go comot. It is inevitable

A001:

You're funny. What happens to Igala people teaching their students in Igala language and other minorities doing the same?

Or is it a Yoruba man that doesn't understand Igala that will translate STEM to Igala language?

GloriousGbola:


Maybe you should branch out into statistics.

Do minorities have a large enough pool of teachers for your stem crusade?

Olowunl01:


Ah Oga mi - This your missile hit me, Oga how exactly are you different from DonJ? You are basically asking us to vote according to tribal lines; if the northerners do likewise; your Tinubu is toast.

As a freeborn lagosian and yoruba man I cannot because Tinubu is yoruba vote for him without questioning... even Awolowo didn't get such free pass... Oga you should be above this level of thinking based on your education and exposure... Tinubu is not god of lagosians or yoruba I detest Tribalism, and we go dey Obido Oyibo dey shout racism.

Oga if Tinubu cannot come out and do a few presidental debate, show his mental alertness and quash all the rumours surrounding his health, then its a Big NO for me... especially discounting all other issues surrounding his candidacy. How is that Foolish??The reason Nigeria is the way it is today is cos its citizens dont ask qurstions, here even your 5yr old will ask you why.

Haba naa on this same chat I have rooted for Fashola & Osinbajo, Is Tinubu more yoruba than them?

Make we continue to dey deceive ourself, naso una do give F9 Buhari awhole 8yrs... Like the PDP guys are saying the only reason we are chatting about Tinubu lagos is Buhari failure, if Buhari had performed like Fashola or Ambode, then the presidency becomes a walk in the park for Tinubu...

A001:

Minorities have no teachers that understand their mother tongue? Lols.

GloriousGbola:


Those who can't do - teach

Assumption. We have 5 million Yorubas. We have five hundred thousand Igalas.

Do the Igalas have a large enough pool of teachers based on their numbers to meet stem requirements?

Because this is the first outcome of your proposal. Teachers will be limited to regions. All that supplementing underserviced schools with youth corpers from other tribes will no longer work.

Already there is a dearth of competent teachers. Now you want to introduce teaching in native language, which will reduce the pool further.

Are you actually able to look two or three steps ahead, or you are just limited to dreams?

GloriousGbola:


First off it has been partially established that we do not know who you really are. Seeing as you are clearly an old member hiding under a new handle.

A001:

You're a just myopic person who can't see beyond his nose. Clerics of the Igala people deliver sermons and religious teachings in Igala language and English language.

The same practice can be adopted to teaching STEM in schools in minor areas.

Donjazet2:


I don't know why I laughed at this post. It's clearly a case of pot calling kettle black. Your moniker is clearly an alternate, so what is your original moniker. You are an old user by all accounts so what is your main account?

iamoyindamola:

This is me I hate that Ami ohun
My papa vex well well that year
But if na french I they do well