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Nigeria Ends Mother-Tongue Instruction, Adopts English-Only Policy in Schools
(westafricaweekly.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2025
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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.