The UN Mother Language Day- 21 February 2012 holds a lot of significance for me. The UN is of the opinion that parents whose children do not speak their mother language have not done significantly well (language mine). World over, children are losing touch with their mother language, sometimes not because parents have failed but because the demands of modern living have made them to seem to have failed. In my country Nigeria, it is now commonplace to see young adults who do not speak their mother language. This is becoming embarrassing and someone in authority needs to address this issue. I am on the verge of floating an NGO named Association of Good Friends for the Emancipation of the Needy(AGFEN) and this NGO has mapped out plans to tackle this menace of "vanishing mother language" in our land, Nigeria. It is my prayer that when we come on stream with our programmes designed to arrest this decline that people will patronise these programmes and support our effort. Long live Nigeria and may our mother languages begin to thrive. Nigeria kwenu! Igbo kwenu! Hausa kwenu! Yoruba kwenu!
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