The Federal Government has formally scrapped the mother-tongue-based teaching policy introduced in 2022, reinstating English as the sole medium of instruction across all levels of education in Nigeria. The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, announced the decision in Abuja during the 2025 Language in Education International Conference. Alausa said years of data reviewed by […]
There’s nothing wrong with being bilingual and learning both languages in school.
if I’m reading it right, it looks like it was a “requirement” to teach the mother tongue, and now its up to the school on if they want to implement mother-tongue languages; but they just now also have to use an English instruction method.
educational policy changes are nothing new; especially for newer school systems that are still figuring things out.
So Wikipedia says they have over 520 languages in Nigeria, Removing the requirement for a mother tongue allows those minority languages to be used by their native speakers in school, supplemented by a nation wide English framework.