121 Computing, Information Systems, Development Informatics & Allied Research Journal Vol. 7 No. 1. March, 2016 - www.cisdijournal.net Olaseni, O. Department of Computer Science Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo, Nigeria talktopastor@yahoo.com Okunoye, A. Williams College of Business Xavier University Cincinati, Ohio, USA okunoye@xavier.edu International centre for Information technology & Development Southern University Baton Rouge, LA, USA ABSTRACT In this information age knowledge acquired is always spread through the web. Currently on the exponential growth of the available information on the social media interface (for example every minute on the internet over 50 million information are upload and over 50 hours of videos are uploaded on YouTube alone) and therefore it is physiologically impossible to follow the information flow in real time hence make it more difficult for some country to thrive in area of research with a foreign languages. These foreign languages therefore brings numerous perils, including death which may befall a language and render its growth or relevance somewhat useless, lending to the ‘birth’ of a population with little regard for their own languages and therefore slow down the technology advancement of the nation. This research work extracts factors responsible for Yoruba Language in a state being annihilated. Questionnaires were administered and returned to generated dataset from the responses and Gain Ratio and Relief f techniques from Weka 3.7.9 while a threshold was set for each technique and the common was responsible for Yoruba Language annihilation. The result showed that lack of commitment to indigenous language use, Colonia legacy and in-effective language planning by the government are the factors that are mostly responsible for Yoruba language annihilation. These factors were also responsible for slow development of technology of a nation. Keywords: Yoruba Language, Annihilation, technology, Gain Ratio and Relief f Technique 1. INTRODUCTION The World Wide Web (WWW) contains resources in and about diverse languages. The World Internet Statistics shows that English is the most popular language on the Internet (in content and usage) and probably the most popular for Internet searches; however, there has been an increase in the presence of non-English users on the information superhighway (Internet World Stats, 2010). The different computer encoding systems, based on orthography of some of these non-English languages have brought about language-dependent problems in Information Retrieval and cause a great challenge in research success in some countries. Yoruba language which is one of the non-English languages belongs to the West Benue – Congo of the Niger – Congo phylum of African languages (Williamson and Blench 2000:31). Apart from Nigeria with about 30 million Yoruba Language speakers. The tonal language vastly spoken in the South Western region is of Nigeria, sizable part of republic of Benin, Togo and some other countries in the world is known to be Yoruba language. This international certified language with codes: ISO639-1, ISO639-2 and ISO639-3 under international standard organization (ISO) have native speakers which constitute 30% of Nigerians population and around 40million speakers throughout the West African region. Yoruba language with three basic significant tones has numbers of dialetcts ranging from 12-26 across Nigeria republic of Congo, Togo, Brazil etc Ojo (1977), Adetugbo (1982), Oyelaran (1970, 1992), Mustapha (1987), Ojo (2001). The earliest study of the Yoruba language was done by missionaries interested in translating scriptures for evangelical purposes. Longe, O.B. & Ogunjimi, O.A. Multidisciplinary Research Group longeolumide@fulbrightmail.org, olaogunjimi@gmail.com Ubiquitous Information & Communication Technology and its Impact on the Annihilation of Indigenous Languages – The Yoruba Language in Perspective