Yoruba as a language is losing her values, a call for remedy.

With the little experience I have, I noticed that the values of Yoruba is reducing day by day and what led to this?

Firstly Is lack of qualitative teachers in the school both in rural and urban areas. We hardly get teachers for Yoruba language and most times some schools hardly teach this subject and if we aren't careful Yoruba will become a past in our lives. At the primary school levels, where a teacher handles all subjects. Those teachers sometimes neglect the teaching of the subject because they don't know what to teach and how to handle and even what they know are what they focus on. That's been since and I am among the victims of this because of the way I was brought up by my primary school teachers and that's how I will do for pupils and gradual it trends.

However, these students hardly understand teachers in class when using English to explain to pupils and this mostly happen in the rural areas. With the experience I have gotten, if I continue explaining with English for my pupils for the whole day, is like am just wasting my saliva if I failed to interpret in Yoruba for them to understand. I think and I subscribe to the step took by former governor of Osun state, Olagunsoye Oyinlola in enjoining teachers to explain in Yoruba for students. If this could be applicable, I think there would be change towards the understanding and assimilating of the pupils.

Government should focus on primary school pupils and teachers because if the foundation is not okay, there are
big challenges upfront. There should be a debate among students on Yoruba and huge amount should be spent on those who performed well to boost the morale of others in concentrating and showing interest in the subject.

I would be happy if WAEC and other examination bodies can make Yoruba a compulsory subject and shouldn't be a voluntary one and he who failed shouldn't be admitted to school. With this, enthusiasm would be shown to this subject. A summit should be called and research should be taken on this language to know more about it weaknesses and way forward to it.

We have fallen in to victims and for future purposes and incoming generation, I think a necessary action should be taken to give remedy confronting this language. There should be a change now!

However, since parents don't check their children books at home to know how teachers handle students in school, it makes teacher to teach anyhow and even most schools don't have scheme of work to use at primary schools yet teachers teach what they understand. I don't want this to continue because of incoming generation, actions need to be taken.