Nigeria's decision to scrap its mother-tongue education policy ignores global research and expert warnings, risking cultural ...

The federal government has cancelled the national policy mandating the use of indigenous languages as the medium of ...

Educationists and language advocates have faulted the Federal Government’s decision to reverse the 2022 National Language ...

This is the classic English tongue-twister everyone tries at least once. The string of “sh” and “s” sounds forces your tongue ...

In addition, the indigenous community has also set so called standards–a child with weak command of their mother tongue but fluent in English is commended, whereas the kid who is well versed in their ...

Exam results from areas which dropped English have declined, the education minister says, announcing the U-turn.

The Federal Government’s recent revocation of the mother tongue as a means of instruction in Nigeria’s basic schools and the reintroduction of the English language in its stead have stirred mixed ...

The regions most likely to embrace the mother-tongue policy were the Northern states, where literacy levels are already fragile. In many parts of the North-West and North-East, literacy rates hover ...

A BABY suffered a heart attack, internal burns and life-changing injuries after he accidentally drank household drain cleaner ...

M Krishnan, 89, joins children at the Chennai Malayalam Mission to study and sit for the Suryakanthi exam, proving it’s never too late to learn. Other senior citizens also participated, highlighting ...

BENGALURU: While most people might have stopped taking interest in communicating or even educating children in Kannada, and ...

Nigeria is caught in a debate over how its children should learn. The government has scrapped a programme that allowed ...