A university don at the Federal University Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof. Tajudeen Opoola, has charged government to fast-track the implementation of the use of mother-tongue as a medium of teaching in nursery and primary schools in the country to remedy poor academic take-off by pupils at the foundational level of education and prepare them for […]
A university don at the Federal University Oye Ekiti , Prof. Tajudeen Opoola, has charged government to fast-track the implementation of the use of mother-tongue as a medium of teaching in nursery and primary schools in the country to remedy poor academic take-off by pupils at the foundational level of education and prepare them for…
Opoola, a professor of Applied Linguistic and Dean Faculty of Arts at FUOYE, made the call while delivering the university’s Seventh Inaugural Lecture at the institution’s main auditorium in Oye Ekiti, stressing that the time had come when government must accord indigenous languages their right of place in national development and as a veritable tool in fighting insecurity.
Specifically, he called, on the Federal Government to fully implement the use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction in Nigeria’s primary schools, saying this would no doubt, promote the Nigerian culture, languages and tradition. Opoola said: “In the world at present, there exists about 6, 000 languages of coping eyes while Nigeria as a nation has over 500 languages and exceedingly more than 250 ethnics/tribes with a population of close to 200 million people.
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