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​Until amended, Section 55 of the 1999 Constitution recognises English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba as languages in which the official business of the National Assembly can be conducted. National public office holders who appear in the National Assembly on official duty can choose any of the four languages mentioned in the Constitution to conduct their business.

​National office holders and ministers, however, have to be proficient in English - Ogedi Ohajekwe. We have national office holders who are very proficient in English language at the Nigerian crude oil refineries who cannot refine crude oil; at the Ajaokuta Iron and Steel Industry who are incapable of mining our iron ores and working them into metals; at the national electricity corporation where they are experts in producing darkness instead of light; etc. Proficiency in English my foot, I must say.

S. Kadiri  

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We have many existential issues and we are dancing around the issues and suggesting new unenforceable laws. As it is now, any commutity (state) can elect who ever they want. If the person the have elected can't speak English or other languages, just bring you own interpreter at your own(states) cost.
National office holders and ministers however have to be proficient in English.

On Jul 22, 2019, at 3:36 PM, OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:

I am happy Alagba Kadiri is now drawing attention to the equality of the three main languages of Nigeria as languages of national discourse at the legislative houses.  With the apps I drew attention to recently it is now a question of national will to ensure legislators have competencies in these three languages in addition to English as a condition of their election into the chambers.  Those already in should be required to learn same.

As I pointed out to Farooq a while back inability to speak competent English is the least of the headache of public officials and the country;  on the contrary it is the perverse use of the mastery of English to blindfold the citizenry as the nation is defrauded and the treasury is looted.

OAA.

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​Section 55 of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution recognises English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba as languages in which the official business of the National Assembly can be conducted. Hence, it would still have been in order if the Chief Justice had spoken in Hausa in answering the theatrical question from Abaribe who himself has deployed legal technicality to avoid going to jail for standing as a surety of N100 million bail for Nnamdi Kanu, the money, which he never deposited at the registry of Federal High Court, Abuja, as required by law. Kanu has absconded, jumping bail. We now know that Nnamdi Kanu's bail condition was not fulfilled when he was released on bail from the custody. In the civilized world, Enyinnaya Abaribe, would have been arrested to produce Kanu as well as forfeiting the bail money.

S. Kadiri 

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A professor of African Literature in English who cannot speak or write good English

a chief judge of a nation in which English is the official language being excused for not being able to grasp a key legal term in the very English language in which he h reads briefs and delivers judgement, the same English language through which he is described as getting a PhD and in which he has practiced law for up to 40 years...

Nigeria ....  we hail thee

where politics is all

where truth is bendable

to suit who wills...

On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 at 15:06, Anthony Akinola <anthony.a.akinola@gmail.com> wrote:

 There are quite many African professors who neither speak nor write good English and this is not to say they are not competent in their fields of  specialisation.

Anthony Akinola.

On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 12:20 PM Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

"Farooq,
Is it not possible that he totally misunderstood the question and went on to give what we used to call "OP" (off point answer) in my high school days in the 70s in Nigeria? Notably, while it is less likely, this (OP) can happen to someone who knows the answer to the given question and not only one who doesn't. Stress, anxiety, distraction, pressure and other things can be a factor. As is with malapropism for instance,  where one would wrongly use a word that sounds close to but yet different from what one wants to say, (even one knows both words and their different meanings) one can also hear a word such as technicalities and mistakenly take it to mean technical as in specialized focus areas of expertise, which I think is what may have happened here.  So if this is a one time thing, it would not worry me. If however, their is a pattern or other evidence of incompetence, then we have a problem.
Regards,
Okey"

Even at that, his response was not plausible.

CAO.

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