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 […]
This is probably a good thing for the education system and a bad thing for lots of minority languages.
Teachers will have a nearly infinitely larger pool of material, without the need to translate it, and Nigeria will be able to hire foreign teachers if necessary. Nigeria is one of the world’s fastest growing countries and will be an even more significant immigration target in the future, so schools that are accessible to foreign teachers and students will be a blessing.