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Nigeria has announced a policy aimed at promoting the teaching of primary school pupils in local languages in place of English
Nigeria has announced a policy aimed at promoting the teaching of primary school pupils in local languages in place of English. The National Language Policy, which has been approved for implementation recently, states that instruction for the first six years in primary schools will be in the mother tongue. English is Nigeria’s official language. All learning institutions use it as the common language of teaching and learning.
The new education policy states that pupils learn much better when they are taught in their own mother tongue. However, the government admitted that implementing the new policy would be challenging because it would require a lot of work to develop materials to teach and get the teachers. Nigeria has more than 600 local languages and selecting any language in a state as a medium of instruction would be a difficult choice.
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Though the policy to promote local languages has come in the form of a local language policy, it is not clear when it will be introduced because of the likely political undertones of selecting a language over others.
