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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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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.