Fri 02 December 2022:
The Nigerian government has approved a new National Language Policy that would forbid the teaching of English in primary schools and require the use of regional languages instead.
Following the Federal Executive Council’s (FEC) approval of the policy in a meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, the policy was revealed by Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu.
“[T]he government has agreed now that, henceforth, instruction in primary schools; the first six years of learning will be in the mother tongue,” the minister was quoted as saying.
Nigeria’s official language is English. All educational levels use it as their primary language of instruction.
“To promote and enhance the cultivation and use of all Nigerian languages,” according to Adamu, is the goal of the new policy.
He said that the strategy would be implemented nationwide and that there are roughly 625 regional languages in Nigeria.
”Since the first six years of school should be in the mother tongue. Whereby the pupil is, the language of the host community is what will be used,” he explained.
Adamu said that after the exclusive use of local languages for the first six years of school, the mother tongue would then be combined with English at the junior secondary level.
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