DEVELOPING NIGERIAN THROUGH THE HAUSA; IBO & YORUBA LANGUAGES: Is Localized Nigerian Educational System Stupid?

One of the unique concept of the modern and ancient society is LANGUAGE. In every county, In every continent and in the world, the uniqueness of a people in development, growth and societal sustainability has hinged mostly on the understand of the interest of all by everyone in the society. From Japan to German; From Korea to France and From Malaysia to Singapore; the localization of industrialization has been embedded in the language or languages of the people. African's key problem and loss is that we have continually forced the foreign languages on our livelihood and developmental process, when it is evident that it has not worked, it will not work and it is capable of perpetually enslaving our people.

Nigeria exemplifies the African problem....The urgency of the Africanisation and the Nigerianization of educating our people must become immediate particularly for the Muhammadu Buhari's Administration. I am absolutely confident, that the Hausa, Yoruba and Ibo Language hold the Key to a proper National Integration and Shared Economic and Industrial Growth in the medium to long term. This Government must over the next few years design an education structure that is inclusive, effective and localized particularly through the institutionalization of the three key languages. I am part Urhobo and part Ikwerre, I am promoting the big three for the interest of the Nigerian State. I am advocating that once every Nigerian Child has the capacity to Experiment, Develop and Fabricate Thoughts, Concepts and Issues within the confines of these three key languages; we are capable of truly becoming an industrial giant within the next few decades. History is kind to me.

I am privileged to have a Wife who is Born in Kano State; was Schooled in Plateau State; From Anambra State and Served in Ondo State. She is a Graduate of Mathematics and She Speaks Hausa; Ibo; Yoruba and English. She captures it perfectly, when she told me that from the South, East, North to the West; The Children in Public Primary and Secondary Schools struggle to Learn and Understand Mathematics in English barely averaging 30%, but break it down in their language of birth and the same children averages 75% in performance. Something is critically being ignored in the Nigerian State. The foundational education required for sustaining the growth process of the Child is flawed.

The most developed countries in the world today utilized their local Languages in Technological Advancement, Economic Development and National Growth. Samsung's language of development in their factories across Korea and China is localized; The same with Nokia in Finland; Mercedes Benz and BMW in Germany. Growth and Development is a systemic function of the expansiveness of the Mind. once your mind is not expansive you cannot grow. Your mind cannot be expansive, if your ability to visualize is impaired. Your ability to Visualize is impaired when you are forced to think foreign. That is the whole ideology behind slavery; Colonization and Neo-Colonization.

The Violent Fulani herdsmen crisis will be greatly diminished if the host communities are easily able to communicate with these people in their mother tongue; Learning would be easier when we are taught in our mother tongue. Technological Advancement would be faster when we understand science in our mother tongue. National, Tribal and Ethnic relationship would be Better, Easier and more Friendly once we are able to speak a common language; Not Corruption as is obtainable today. This a short submission to remind us all that ENGLISH developed the BRITISH and the AMERICANS. It did not develop the Germans; The Japanese; The Koreans; The Europeans; The Chinese and Majority of the World. Why Should that of Nigeria and Africa be different? Is Education Stupid? Is Commonsense Common?

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