OruExpress:
Anyone who posts below this post should tell me that last time they themselves 'competed globally', fools.

she...you will chat will intelligent redditor in Hausa and even program with it.

I reject every spirit of backwardness!
Fire! Fire! Fire!

ABCthings:
she...you will chat will intelligent redditor in Hausa and even program with it.

I reject every spirit of backwardness!
Fire! Fire! Fire!

So you want the Nigerian educational system to be wired for talking to 'intelligent redditor'? You can program in any language. Speak on what you know

ABCthings:
this is the sensible comment I've been waiting for,

Hausa can be used to explain simplify difficult terms but English should be the number one so as to help them wherever they go. They won't write even neco or go to UNN to study medicine in Hausa. English is a must!
We learnt it and did not die.
If we can, they can too

Japanese people that study medicine do it in English right?

All of the english you know and you're still nobody. Interesting.

OruExpress:


So you want the Nigerian educational system to be wired for talking to 'intelligent redditor'? You can program in any language. Speak on what you know

So you want the world to change because of our Northern education system. Press conferences should be held in hausa or with an Hausa intepreter. Abi?


What programming languages uses Hausa dialect? please tell me I might need to build an Android app.

ABCthings:
this is the sensible comment I've been waiting for,

Hausa can be used to explain simplify difficult terms but English should be the number one so as to help them wherever they go. They won't write even neco or go to UNN to study medicine in Hausa. English is a must!
We learnt it and did not die.
If we can, they can too

Exactly! Why not help them to learn English and communicate with other parts of the country instead of helping them go backwards

Its not like anybody likes speaking English, we do it because of the condition we found ourselves in so why should their own be different

OruExpress:


Japanese people that study medicine do it in English right?

All of the english you know and you're still nobody. Interesting.

Japanese is the national language of Japan and English is the national language of Nigeria...

Why do you insist on comparing incomparable phenomena

guidelight:

English is not the only language of Literacy, my dear. The Chinese, the Japs, and Russians etc don't use English at school and its doesn't make them less literate. Am I right?

All those places have standardised languages that they use for official communication while the use their own dialects/languages at home.

Do you know how many ethnic groups they have in China alone?! Yet they still learn the official state language

OGHENAOGIE:
Nigeria is not a unitary State why are u so worked up nothing wrong with this idea India has over 20 official languages including English yet they are a top economic giant...

Because I dont like the way they tackled this issue

They should be encouraged to reach the same level of everybody else and not coddled. There is nothing wrong with them that they cant read the same thing we are all reading

The governor of that place can read English so whats the problem

midnighter:


Japanese is the national language of Japan and English is the national language of Nigeria...

Why do you insist on comparing incomparable phenomena

lol what are you trying to communicate? Honestly.
What are you trying to say? If everyone in your life speaks Hausa, and you speak Hausa, and you think in Hausa, and you understand Hausa you should learn in Hausa.

This is why Nigeria produces 5000 engineers a year and nobody can dig an ordinary drainage. In the end of the day the words entering your head (in english) are alien and intimidating to you and you memorizing them doesn't mean your comprehending anything. Comprehension. The person of learning is comprehension. To comprehend. So long as you comprehend you're ok. If someone tells you 'Rubber comes from Rubber Trees' in Hausa, will you die? When it's time to find rubber you'll know where it is.

Compared to the person that speaks Igbo but doesn't know Okwe and Rubber Tree is the same thing. He will first have to learn how to say the name of an ordinary tree in a foreign language, then (hopefully) go look for it. Do you know what the average Nigerian thinks chemistry is? Words. Just words to memorize. No comprehension. No understanding of what those words mean and how available they are to them and how much they can improve their life and the life of others with these very common ordinary elements.

Did you know that the process of refining oil is the exact same process as cooking? but because you're hearing 'refining' you think it's something that only happens in the UK like a useless fool. And look at the result. This is why Hausa people are running you. They speak the language they understand and aren't performing for anyone. While you're mastering English they're mastering you. Leave them to continue making smart decisions.

The rest of the world has moved of from the English = food mentality. If someone learns to do surgery in Hausa, what is the problem? Or should this non-english speaker learn english, then learn hausa and be behind the person that speaks japanese and learns in japanese? How many people have been told what's wrong with them in a hospital and walked out understanding what they just heard in this Nigeria? Did you know that Pepto-Bismol is Nzu (Igbo)? No. But you will spend your last dollar on Pepto while Nzu is at home because you don't COMPREHEND what that medicine is.


National language nko. So when Buhari says Hausa is the new national lanugage, that's when it will make sense to learn how to fix a car using the language you understand?

The people learning the same thing in Korean, Russian, Tamil, Manduran, and Arabic haven't died. it's the person that wants to learn in Hausa.

midnighter:


Because I dont like the way they tackled this issue

They should be encouraged to reach the same level of everybody else and not coddled. There is nothing wrong with them that they cant read the same thing we are all reading

The governor of that place can read English so whats the problem

you're asking him what's the problem because he wants people to learn in the language they understand. What is your own problem? Do you live in Yobe? Do the people in Yobe care about your life?

look at how these people want Yobe to continue failing it's people for the sake of 'discussing with intelligent redditor'

OruExpress:


lol what are you trying to communicate? Honestly.
What are you trying to say? If everyone in your life speaks Hausa, and you speak Hausa, and you think in Hausa, and you understand Hausa you should learn in Hausa.

This is why Nigeria produces 5000 engineers a year and nobody can dig an ordinary drainage. In the end of the day the words entering your head (in english) are alien and intimidating to you and you memorizing them doesn't mean your comprehending anything. Comprehension. The person of learning is comprehension. To comprehend. So long as you comprehend you're ok. If someone tells you 'Rubber comes from Rubber Trees' in Hausa, will you die? When it's time to find rubber you'll know where it is.

Compared to the person that speaks Igbo but doesn't know Okwe and Rubber Tree is the same thing. He will first have to learn how to say the name of an ordinary tree in a foreign language, then (hopefully) go look for it. Do you know what the average Nigerian thinks chemistry is? Words. Just words to memorize. No comprehension. No understanding of what those words mean and how available they are to them and how much they can improve their life and the life of others with these very common ordinary elements.

Did you know that the process of refining oil is the exact same process as cooking? but because you're hearing 'refining' you think it's something that only happens in the UK like a useless fool. And look at the result. This is why Hausa people are running you. They speak the language they understand and aren't performing for anyone. While you're mastering English they're mastering you. Leave them to continue making smart decisions.

The rest of the world has moved of from the English = food mentality. If someone learns to do surgery in Hausa, what is the problem? Or should this non-english speaker learn english, then learn hausa and be behind the person that speaks japanese and learns in japanese? How many people have been told what's wrong with them in a hospital and walked out understanding what they just heard in this Nigeria? Did you know that Pepto-Bismol is Nzu (Igbo)? No. But you will spend your last dollar on Pepto while Nzu is at home because you don't COMPREHEND what that medicine is.


National language nko. So when Buhari says Hausa is the new national lanugage, that's when it will make sense to learn how to fix a car using the language you understand?

The people learning the same thing in Korean, Russian, Tamil, Manduran, and Arabic haven't died. it's the person that wants to learn in Hausa.

If everyone in your life speaks Hausa but you have the misfortune of being born into an imperialist contraption in which hundreds of other languages are spoken and everybody is bound by English, then you speak English! What does thinking in Hausa have to do with anything? So everybody else who likes dreaming in their language, are they stupid

The reason Nigeria produces incompetent engineers is that of a failing educational system and sadistic lecturers who force them to buy pages and pages of jargon-filled handouts without any practical study. It has nothing to do with "intimidation" and if you are "intimidated" by your own national language, thats your problem.

Imagine your own language being "alien" to you. Is it not the engineering terms that will be "alien" if your university is a glorified test-centre with avaricious academic staff puffing their chests up and down? If they like, let them write the handout in Martian, it will still not make any sense if the teaching is of a low standard

Come on! it is in the nature of children to be able to speak two languages as long as they are taught well. Stop acting like we are suddenly too stupid to do what millions of people do around the world. If somebody cannot comprehend an idea, cant we teach them? Must you stay in darkness and unenlightenment forever? If somebody doesnt know what Okwe means, will they die when they eventually find out?

Cooking = refining oil, wonderful. Thank you for teaching me a new fact, I am the better for it. i have understood something today.

You see? thats how a civilised human being reacts to information that he hasnt heard before. Not to go scurrying into a corner like a confused antelope because its not in his native tongue. Please be travelling all over the world with your native tongue, refuse to "comprehend" anything new because its not in your language and come back here to tell the story

The fact that Nzu=Pepto-Bismol should be explained to the patient. If a doctor feels like intimidating somebody with grammar then he is not honouring the solumn oath he swore. It has nothing to do with speaking English. English is not an intimidation, a bullying tactic, an inconvenience or a complication. Its a neutral entity which you are attaching so much meaning to over nothing. I mean, what are you actually trying to say? Stop breeding inferiority complex my friend

This is not about the rest of the world, Japanese Chinese whatever. This is about discipline and intranational relations. They cant just do whatever they feel like. We are in a federation. Why cant they read the same thing we are all reading?? Japanese people learn Japanese at school and Nigerians learn English at school. If the Hausa doctor is behind its because he was not taught properly; thats where they should invest more money.

If one is smart enough to be a doctor, why cant he read and understand simple academic materials

They can have a guide in their language if it makes it easier but the language of instruction should be English, end of story.

OruExpress:


you're asking him what's the problem because he wants people to learn in the language they understand. What is your own problem? Do you live in Yobe? Do the people in Yobe care about your life?

What language they understand? Whats wrong with them that they cant understand a language millions of people worldwide understand?

I am sure the good people of Yobe state are very intelligent, we dont need to patronise or baby them

They should invest in their teachers to be able to teach in decent English instead of this trash they are doing

If you cannot speak English, can you be a governor So why would you want other people to be speaking Hausa while you spoke English and rose to the zenith of your life? Is it not the height of wickedness?

midnighter:


What language they understand? Whats wrong with them that they cant understand a language millions of people worldwide understand?

I am sure the good people of Yobe state are very intelligent, we dont need to patronise or baby them

They should invest in their teachers to be able to teach in decent English instead of this trash they are doing

If you cannot speak English, can you be a governor So why would you want other people to be speaking Hausa while you spoke English and rose to the zenith of your life? Is it not the height of wickedness?

Speaking Hausa to a man that speaks Hausa is babying him? lol
From you logic, I know you have never met anyone but a Nigerian, so what value has English brought you. You're so concerned with being useful in the world without showing how you're useful at home.

How many people speak Korean? Is your life comparable to a person in Korea? How much decent English do you think it took a Korean to build Samsung?

Do you think an English speaking American is going to English speaking Nigeria to do business over Japanese speaking Japan and Chinese speaking China?




This is America's top trade partners. These are the people that english speak America chooses to engage and do business with. Out of 15, 3 speak English. So if an English speaking American bypasses english speaking Nigeria and goes to Vietnamese speaking Vietnam to purchase their goods, what value is your English? Since you equate human value with the ability to speak to other English speakers, what is your value if they are choosing Brazil over you?

Lets look at the UK. Your colonial 'master' that convinced you if you speak english you will get food.



out of 10 countries, 2 speak english. So why is the UK not interested in trading with, doing business with, visiting, or connecting to you that speaks 'the queens english' and instead looking at Beligum?


These are the poorest countries in the world. Look at the languages they speak
Burundi (GNI per capita: $770) French
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (GNI per capita: $870) French
Niger (GNI per capita: $990) French
Malawi (GNI per capita: $1,180) English
Mozambique (GNI per capita: $1,200) Portugese
Sierra Leone (GNI per capita: $1,480) English
Madagascar (GNI per capita: $1,510) English
Comoros (GNI per capita: $1,570) French


With your level of thinking being the national average, how do you expect this Nigeria of a country to even have stable light? If you can't process ordinary 'talk to and teach people in the language they understand', how will someone with your level in thinking be able to boil ordinary rice, talk-less of understand electricity.

midnighter:


If everyone in your life speaks Hausa but you have the misfortune of being born into an imperialist contraption in which hundreds of other languages are spoken and everybody is bound by English, then you speak English! What does thinking in Hausa have to do with anything? So everybody else who likes dreaming in their language, are they stupid

The reason Nigeria produces incompetent engineers is that of a failing educational system and sadistic lecturers who force them to buy pages and pages of jargon-filled handouts without any practical study. It has nothing to do with "intimidation" and if you are "intimidated" by your own national language, thats your problem.

Imagine your own language being "alien" to you. Is it not the engineering terms that will be "alien" if your university is a glorified test-centre with avaricious academic staff puffing their chests up and down? If they like, let them write the handout in Martian, it will still not make any sense if the teaching is of a low standard

Come on! it is in the nature of children to be able to speak two languages as long as they are taught well. Stop acting like we are suddenly too stupid to do what millions of people do around the world. If somebody cannot comprehend an idea, cant we teach them? Must you stay in darkness and unenlightenment forever? If somebody doesnt know what Okwe means, will they die when they eventually find out?

Cooking = refining oil, wonderful. Thank you for teaching me a new fact, I am the better for it. i have understood something today.

You see? thats how a civilised human being reacts to information that he hasnt heard before. Not to go scurrying into a corner like a confused antelope because its not in his native tongue. Please be travelling all over the world with your native tongue, refuse to "comprehend" anything new because its not in your language and come back here to tell the story

The fact that Nzu=Pepto-Bismol should be explained to the patient. If a doctor feels like intimidating somebody with grammar then he is not honouring the solumn oath he swore. It has nothing to do with speaking English. English is not an intimidation, a bullying tactic, an inconvenience or a complication. Its a neutral entity which you are attaching so much meaning to over nothing. I mean, what are you actually trying to say? Stop breeding inferiority complex my friend

This is not about the rest of the world, Japanese Chinese whatever. This is about discipline and intranational relations. They cant just do whatever they feel like. We are in a federation. Why cant they read the same thing we are all reading?? Japanese people learn Japanese at school and Nigerians learn English at school. If the Hausa doctor is behind its because he was not taught properly; thats where they should invest more money.

If one is smart enough to be a doctor, why cant he read and understand simple reading materials

They can have a guide in their language if it makes it easier but the language of instruction should be English, end of story.

you're not making sense. I know you're trying but it's not working.
Your level of thinking isn't that high and i can tell you're either very young or haven't met anyone that's not Nigerian. Not that meeting others will make you smart but you will quickly realize this idiotic mentality of someone speaking one language at home and another language at school is peak ignorance. You don't even understand english. you know the words but you don't understand them. You think someone need to speak English to have 'international relations' but at the same time think the US has more 'relations' with English speaking Nigeria than it does Japanese speaking Japan or German speaking Germany.

Clearly, the governor of Yobe is smarter than you.

OruExpress:
Speaking Hausa to a man that speaks Hausa is babying him? lol
From you logic, I know you have never met anyone but a Nigerian, so what value has English brought you. You're so concerned with being useful in the world without showing how you're useful at home.

How many people speak Korean? Is your life comparable to a person in Korea? How much decent English do you think it took a Korean to build Samsung?

Do you think an English speaking American is going to English speaking Nigeria to do business over Japanese speaking Japan and Chinese speaking China?

This is America's top trade partners. These are the people that english speak America chooses to engage and do business with. Out of 15, 3 speak English. So if an English speaking American bypasses english speaking Nigeria and goes to Vietnamese speaking Vietnam to purchase their goods, what value is your English? Since you equate human value with the ability to speak to other English speakers, what is your value if they are choosing Brazil over you?

LOL

Speaking Hausa to an Hausa guy is all well and good, but assuming that thats all he understand is codswallop! There is nothing stopping him from speaking the same language as everybody else. Stop pampering millions of able-bodied, able-minded people who are just as capable of having this conversation as we are. What are you protecting them from? Do Hausa-English dictionaries have teeth? Do they bite people?

You're just going around in circles. Korea's national language is Korean and even the Chinese people who live there have to learn it. Do we all speak Hausa?

And they still learn English at school, so you still dont have any point!

Yeah! Donald Trump will keep going to all those countries until we bring our educational system up to scratch and start investing in research and innovation instead of making lame excuses about how Nigerian man cannot comprehend "chemistry". Chinese speaking China has hundreds of ethnic groups which are unified under a single standard language and thats how they relate with one another. If all the regions decided to be doing their own, you would have seen the result

Since you equate Nigerian citizen value with not being able to understand anything beyond his nose, what is your own value when children who pass through decades of education write pieces that do not contain one correct sentence? We should just leave them like that so they can feel better?

Or so you can feel better?

OruExpress:
Lets look at the UK. Your colonial 'master' that convinced you if you speak english you will get food.
out of 10 countries, 2 speak english. So why is the UK not interested in trading with, doing business with, visiting, or connecting to you that speaks 'the queens english' and instead looking at Beligum?

These are the poorest countries in the world. Look at the languages they speak
Burundi (GNI per capita: $770) French
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (GNI per capita: $870) French
Niger (GNI per capita: $990) French
Malawi (GNI per capita: $1,180) English
Mozambique (GNI per capita: $1,200) Portugese
Sierra Leone (GNI per capita: $1,480) English
Madagascar (GNI per capita: $1,510) English
Comoros (GNI per capita: $1,570) French


With your level of thinking being the national average, how do you expect this Nigeria of a country to even have stable light? If you can't process ordinary 'talk to and teach people in the language they understand', how will someone with your level in thinking be able to boil ordinary rice, talk-less of understand electricity.

Why cant you process simple "anybody can speak any language if they are taught properly"? Why??

What has English got to do with it? Everybody in Belgium speaks French even though they have other minor languages. This is how they educate themselves even if they speak other languages in their spare time.

Why cant you get such a simple fact into your brain

Nigeria will not have stable light until people like you stop embracing iniquity and hold people to the same standards.

I mean just take a look at yourself, you cant even go 2 paragraphs without spewing curses. Why? Because you cant handle somebody else's argument.

The problem with Nigeria is backward and uncivilised attitudes to learning and not speaking to people in their local language.

Will speaking local languages prevent exam expos, bad treatment from lecturers, publication of nonsensical textbooks, embezzlement of funds meant for research and teaching strikes that can go on for months?

OruExpress:


you're not making sense. I know you're trying but it's not working.
Your level of thinking isn't that high and i can tell you're either very young or haven't met anyone that's not Nigerian. Not that meeting others will make you smart but you will quickly realize this idiotic mentality of someone speaking one language at home and another language at school is peak ignorance. You don't even understand english. you know the words but you don't understand them. You think someone need to speak English to have 'international relations' but at the same time think the US has more 'relations' with English speaking Nigeria than it does Japanese speaking Japan or German speaking Germany.

Clearly, the governor of Yobe is smarter than you.

Lol

It seems like youre the one who has never travelled anywhere in his life. In all those wonderful countries you mentioned, people go home and speak whatever they like, I hope you know that? You can attend Saturday classes with people from your country and learn how to read and write the whole thing without ever expecting anything from your school. In fact you can write an exam and get a certificate for your own native language that will count towards your university and job applications. But everyone speaks the same language in schools and official institutions.

Some of those Somali, Chinese and Arab kids even arrive in primary 5 as immigrants and cannot speak even 1 word of English but grow up to be great engineers and doctors. So they should just be speaking Arabic and using a translator because thats the language they grab? You are confused.

Having a bad culture around education will not be eradicated by communicating with people in local languages. in fact it will just get worse if care is not taken

You must be so proud of yourself, you cant have a conversation with somebody without it degenerating into insults. Do you know me or who I have met? No. And I dont know you either.

But as a typically ignorant, backward and complex-ridden person you would rather insult the person who doesnt agree with you just to save face than state your case in a civilised manner. The so-called "Enlightened One" who advocates for "speaking in a language one understands" cannot understand another person. O gbara m ghari

Maybe you should pledge to communicate in your local language and give up speaking English altogether so that everyone will know how "progressive" you are.

LastSurvivor11:


No doubt ur correct but the problem is that yobe is not Lagos or some part of Nigeria where English or pidgin is used at all. So what do you think will happen to such students when they leave north??

Thank you for that...

ctleurocollege:



The North can't even compete with the South locally no need going international. We had to device quota system and low cut off marks for them here in Nigeria not even internationally. Southern Teachers write international exam for them to pass always everybody knows this.

Can the North compete with the South locally? you're going too far when you mention international, somebody is even mentioning China, Russia, India, comparing them to North

I agree with you on the prevailing facts, no doubt. But I bet you if they teach their kids in their mother tongue while the south continue with foreign language, the next generation will surely catch up and surpass the south and compete internationally. That is my initial argument.

midnighter:


All those places have standardised languages that they use for official communication while the use their own dialects/languages at home.

Do you know how many ethnic groups they have in China alone?! Yet they still learn the official state language

You are right China has many indigenous languages and still choose one of theirs as official language. The key thing is indigenous language. I was opportune to live among Yobeans for one year as a Corps member. Yobe state alone has 44 indigenous languages. Majority of them are ethnic Kanuri. Yet they use Hausa as their lingual franca. They are not Hausa's. For a kid growing up there and learning Hausa is an achievement on its self in terms of ability to communicate. Coupled with fact that their government don't give much emphasis of educational growth, you don't expect kids from that side to measure up with their peers down south. I have been there and I understand why their pupils find it hard to score 5% where Southern kids score 99%. Its on this background that I support their indigenous language policy on education.

christejames:
It's a great initiative. Teaching them in their native language at their formative years will go a long way in making them assimilate whatever is being taught both now and in the future...


#followNPFL

D native language that they already no. They no that quota system will always get them jobs. So, no shaking

guidelight:

You are right China has many indigenous languages and still choose one of theirs as official language. The key thing is indigenous language. I was opportune to live among Yobeans for one year as a Corps member. Yobe state alone has 44 indigenous languages. Majority of them are ethnic Kanuri. Yet they use Hausa as their lingual franca. They are not Hausa's. For a kid growing up there and learning Hausa is an achievement on its self in terms of ability to communicate. Coupled with fact that their government don't give much emphasis of educational growth, you don't expect kids from that side to measure up with their peers down south. I have been there and I understand why their pupils find it hard to score 5% where Southern kids score 99%. Its on this background that I support their indigenous language policy on education.

The lingua franca is Hausa language, great! Let them take Hausa as a compulsory subject and let them pass it very well. No problem. And if the child is smart enough, let him take a certificate in Kanuri language too. Wonderful.

Exactly! Their government doesnt give much emphasis on educational growth, and instead of them to correct themselves they went out of their way to be even more backward than usual

Tell me, do you go to school to learn what will be easy for you or what you actually need to know? If their students find it difficult to score, then their government should invest more resources into bringing them up to scratch with the rest of the country. Their students are not less intelligent than southerners.

If the state invests in producing teachers who are well-trained in speaking both English and Hausa, then in the next 10 years those children will snap out of it and get with the programme. If you have teachers who are clueless then what do you expect?

Why do all the elite families in Yobe speak perfect English? What happened to their own lingua franca? Why should enlightenment only happen to wealthy people? Why is "lingua franca" only for poor people?

Dont you think that if the next generation of children could understand simple English, they wouldnt be so quick to fall victim to extremist preachers and terrorism? If they saw that there was nothing to fear from learning it, couldnt it prevent a lot of atrocity in those areas?

So many of our past leaders were of Kanuri extraction yet their state wants their children to regress further into the past. What a shame

Instead of calling out an issue when we see it, we are busy encouraging the wrong thing because we are pitying people who need investment and empowerment and not insincere mercies and pampering

skies:


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midnighter:


Because I dont like the way they tackled this issue

They should be encouraged to reach the same level of everybody else and not coddled. There is nothing wrong with them that they cant read the same thing we are all reading

The governor of that place can read English so whats the problem

stop reacting on hear say...i was born in the North grew there many things you hear are false... they didn't say they won't do English... Hausa ll be part of subjects too I did Hausa in school then...

OGHENAOGIE:
stop reacting on hear say...i was born in the North grew there many things you hear are false... they didn't say they won't do English... Hausa ll be part of subjects too I did Hausa in school then...

No problem. It's people who visited north who are saying it

Doing Hausa language is not a bad thing at all

But the language of instruction and teaching should be English

midnighter:


This not about transferring knowledge, this is about respect and national sovereignty

People shouldn't be able to come here and do whatever they feel like just because we have some problems

In Britain before you are granted citizenship you must take an English test because they don't want people wandering their streets constituting nuisances just because they couldnt be bothered to understand their way of life

If the Chinese guy is smart enough to construct whatever in our country he should also be smart enough to learn our national language so that he will be able to communicate with his client.

Or is he too big to talk to us? Just because he's building one year one block somewhere?

Just answer the question, how do footballers cope in foreign countries? The answer to this question is enough to explain whatever i want to tell you. You said it's not about transferring knowledge? Are you kidding me? If I can understand a subject better in yoruba language, and am good at it, and even invented/create stuffs, the British you are talking about will even be looking for, inasmuch there's an interpreter. Messi will address the world in his language, and we'll get the english version, why? Putin will address the world in his language,and we'll get the english version, why?
Let me tell you what you don't know, to understand another man's language, you need to be well grounded in your own mother tongue. If teaching in hausa will give life a meaning in the north, if it will make them learned, it's all good. Go to U.A.E today, and see what sticking to traditions has done to them. Those guys don't care where you coming, inasmuch you are coming to add value. If we cherish our language, even foreigners will learn it.

midnighter:


The lingua franca is Hausa language, great! Let them take Hausa as a compulsory subject and let them pass it very well. No problem. And if the child is smart enough, let him take a certificate in Kanuri language too. Wonderful.

Exactly! Their government doesnt give much emphasis on educational growth, and instead of them to correct themselves they went out of their way to be even more backward than usual

Tell me, do you go to school to learn what will be easy for you or what you actually need to know? If their students find it difficult to score, then their government should invest more resources into bringing them up to scratch with the rest of the country. Their students are not less intelligent than southerners.

If the state invests in producing teachers who are well-trained in speaking both English and Hausa, then in the next 10 years those children will snap out of it and get with the programme. If you have teachers who are clueless then what do you expect?

Why do all the elite families in Yobe speak perfect English? What happened to their own lingua franca? Why should enlightenment only happen to wealthy people? Why is "lingua franca" only for poor people?

Dont you think that if the next generation of children could understand simple English, they wouldnt be so quick to fall victim to extremist preachers and terrorism? If they saw that there was nothing to fear from learning it, couldnt be prevent a lot of atrocity in those areas?

So many of our past leaders were of Kanuri extraction yet their state wants their children to regress further into the past. What a shame

Instead of calling out an issue when we see it, we are busy encouraging the wrong thing because we are pitying people who need investment and empowerment and not insincere mercies and pampering

Learning what i need to know shouldn't be in a hard way...... Learning should be fun woman!
What's your own definition of learning again?

midnighter:


No problem. It's people who visited north who are saying it

Doing Hausa language is not a bad thing at all

But the language of instruction and teaching should be English

there's nothing bad to add Hausa just like Yoruba is used in Lagos ...if we must develop in Nigeria our languages is part of it... remember we have other minority languages too... even pidgin can be used to teach too...
like I said stop listening to hear say the day u visit u ll know many things on internet are false... yea every society has issues but over exaggeration is a problem...

OGHENAOGIE:
there's nothing bad to add Hausa just like Yoruba is used in Lagos ...if we must develop in Nigeria our languages is part of it... remember we have other minority languages too... even pidgin can be used to teach too...
like I said stop listening to hear say the day u visit u ll know many things on internet are false... yea every society has issues but over exaggeration is a problem...

You are not really getting me

I didnt say Hausa is bad. If a child doesnt understand something, nothing wrong with explaining it any way you feel like

But normalising native language in place of English for teaching instruction is not a good idea

Yeah! pidgin could be used to help teach. In fact I would definitely enjoy that lesson but do you think Delta state should replace English with pidgin for all teaching, exams and textbooks just because all the kids find it easier? Terrible