Nigeria: Senate to Resist Plan to Close Language Institute

[Francis Hult]

This Day Online

 

Senate to Resist Plan to Close Language Institute

 

Senate has vowed to stop alleged plot to abrogate the National Institute for Nigerian Languages (NINLAN), Aba.



The position of the Senate came on the heels of a protest by traditional rulers from Abia State, who stormed the Upper House yesterday.



They were protesting alleged marginalisation of the South-east, through "the forceful abrogation NINLAN."



According to them, the school,  established alongside the Nigerian Arabic Language Village, Ngala, Borno State and the Nigerian French Language, Badagry, Lagos, has been singled out for proscription, despite its cultural values to the Nigeria.



The traditional rulers, led by two Senators from Abia State, Senators Enyininnya Abaribe (PDP, Abia South) and Nkechi Nwogu (PDP, Abia Central), presented their complaints to the Senate Committee on Education, under the chairmanship of Senator Joy Emordi.

 

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