Federalism is the answer, after all - Part 58 | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

The Movement of the Survival of Ogoni People alarmed by this development in the 1990s articulated a response to it in the Ogoni Bill of Rights to the extent that it desired internal autonomy of people to develop the Ogoni language in an estimated population of half a million. In the din of the call for restructuring, it is often not accented that a truer federation, in other words, genuine federalism will allow the full development of our indigenous languages.

Federalism allows for full development of the culture of a people, and should be so for the peoples of Nigeria. To be sure, the 2018 Ethnologic Data listed Nigeria as having 526 languages. Of these, 519 are said to be living languages while seven are already extinct. Of the living languages, 509 are indigenous and ten are non-indigenous. Furthermore, 19 are institutional, 78 are developing, 348 are vigorous, 30 are in trouble and 44 are dying.

In the entire South-south, only the University of Benin, which offers Edo up to PhD level and Delta State University, Abraka that teaches Urhobo at present up to BA level, promote any form of indigenous languages. Although the BA Linguistics/Urhobo began in the 2002/2003 academic session in the Department of Languages and Linguistics, Delta State University, Abraka, it is yet to be upgraded to post graduate level.

There may be renaissance in the wind. Interestingly, Tiv language is not only taught at the Federal College of Education, Katsina Ala but all primary and secondary schools in Benue State. Also, in February 2017, the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel directed that all secondary schools in the state must teach Ibibio, now offered as a course at the Akwa Ibom State College of Education.

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