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KOLA KING's avatar

Much as it is desirable to use the mother tongue as a medium of instruction, after all the Chinese, Koreans and French use their own languages for instruction, still I can forsee resistance in the Christian north, especially with the new awareness and identity created as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency and terrorists attacks in that part of the country. For me, government should have started this on a pilot case instead of going the whole hog without adequate preparations.

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Tunde Akande's avatar

Why does Nigeria government toy with the destiny of citizens. Has this been tested. I'm sure this policy is encouraged by the northern resistance to English as a medium of instruction. I think it is one attitude that has affected modern education in the North. An Hausa man will rather speak his language. And this is affecting their English. Mother tongue was experimented with at University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo university and it failed. Why do we always change what is working?

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