Lagos
State Government has concluded plans to make the teaching of Yoruba language
compulsory in all its public schools.
Governor
Akinwunmi Ambode, represented by his deputy Dr Idiat Oluranti Adebule,
yesterday at a stakeholders forum organised by the Lagos State House of
Assembly at Academy hall, Agidingbi, Ikeja Lagos on the need to make Yoruba
Language a compulsory teaching subject in all schools in the state, said that
the subject will be taught in primary schools and junior secondary schools
across the state.
Ambode
noted that it is important for children not only to learn the language of their
environment, but also the culture and people’s general way of life.
The
governor added that it is very important for every Yoruba child to be able to
speak the language very fluently, enriched with adequate cultural norms of the
people so as to guarantee a responsible life in the future.
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