Co-ordinator of the Yoruba Militia, Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Gani Adams has urged the Governors in the six South West States to integrate the Yoruba language in the schools’ curriculum to help preserve the language

He also suggested that States’ owned higher institutions of learning in the zone should make Yoruba language a compulsory requirement for any candidate seeking admission into the institutions.

He spoke in a speech he delivered at the Ogun State Correspondents’ chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) Press week ceremony in Abeokuta, the State capital.

Adams observed, “There is the need for government, parents, schools, policy makers, language planners and other stakeholders to put in place urgent measures that will arrest this unwholesome situation whereby the Yoruba language is almost losing its importance because of neglect.