AS part of efforts to preserve and encourage the use of the Yoruba language, the Lagos State University of Education – LASUED, has integrated the Yoruba language into its General Nigeria Studies – GNS.
It would be recalled that the Lagos State Government on August 8, 2018, enacted a law that mandates that the Yoruba language be integrated into its General Nigeria Studies – GNS, curriculum.
This law requires the inclusion of Yoruba in the GNS programme of all tertiary institutions owned by the Lagos State Government.
“It is a compulsory course for both 100- and 200-level students, and they must pass it before they graduate,’’ the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Bidemi Bilkis Lafiaji-Okuneye.
“Immediately after we transmuted into a university, the senate of the institution approved the teaching of Yoruba at the GNS level in 2022, and we started teaching in February during the 2022–2023 session.
“For now, our university is the only institution that is teaching Yoruba for one whole session in the state,” she said.
Lafiaji-Okuneye added that the 100-level students at the university had been taught, examined, and graded on the course.
“Lecturers teaching Yoruba Language created innovative ways to teach their students to capture their interest.
