Lagos declares Wednesdays as "Yoruba Speaking Day” in schools

...orders students to sing National Anthem in Yoruba daily

Oredola Adeola

The Lagos State Government has mandated management of both public schools and private schools in the state to convert Wednesdays into ‘Yoruba Speaking Day’ for students.

Dr.Idiat Adebule, Deputy Governor, Lagos State Government

The State Government also ordered that students must sing the National Anthem in Yoruba Language daily.

Dr. Idiat Adebule, Deputy Governor of the state, gave these directives at a meeting with Principals and Head Teachers of public schools in Lagos.

According to Dr. Adebule, Yoruba Language would also be made a compulsory subject for students.

She said, “Governor Ambode wants me to pass this message to you, that henceforth, Yoruba language be made compulsory in both private and public schools, and that Wednesdays had been declared ‘Yoruba Speaking Day’ in schools, with all teaching and learning activities from assembly period to closing being done in Yoruba.

"The National Anthem should be sung in Yoruba on a daily basis too. The Egbe Akomolede has done the translation and we will send the copies of the Yoruba version to your schools by Monday so you can begin to teach the students.

”I have also met with the owners of private schools and we have relayed this directive to them.

"We are also considering translating the textbooks of other subjects into Yoruba Language because I believe that when students are taught in their mother language, learning will be easy and their level of performance will improve," Dr. Adebule disclosed.

The Deputy Governor affirmed that the government is passionate about this Law, so we do not lose our language, culture and heritage. She added that the Ministry of Education was doing an assessment to ascertain the number of Yoruba teachers that would be required to effectively teach the language in public schools.

She however urged authorities and stakeholders in the education sector to cooperate with Governor Ambode’s vision for the state. She also charged them to ensure the effective implementation of the Yoruba Language Preservation and Promotion Law

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