For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and ...
"A country that deprives its young ones of education in their mother tongue has denied them access to the deepest and most ...
The Senior Vice President of Government Affairs at FMDQ Group, Emmanuel Etaderhi, has urged regulators and market ...
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The language of instruction question

THE Federal Government’s decision to scrap the mother tongue as a medium of instruction at the primary school level in Nigeria and replace it with the English Language has stirred controversy among ...
The recent and sobering declaration by the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, that Nigeria is in a "learning emergency" ...
Global career education firm Aptech is partnering with India’s Scope Global Skills University (SGSU) to launch a ...
The Nigerian Academy of Education has faulted the Federal Government’s decision to scrap the National Language Policy, urging the Minister of Education, Maruf Alausa, to reverse his decision and ...
When seven-year-old Uwakwe Iroha sits in his crowded classroom at Amaba Central School, he can confidently recite the alphabet in his native language. Yet, he struggles to read a simple sentence in ...
There is no argument about which language of instruction should be used in early education in any serious country other than the mother tongue. The recent announcement by the Minister of Education, ...
Accra, Nov. 25, GNA – The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has hosted a high-level learning-exchange meeting with Ghana and Nigerian regulators to strengthen nonprofit regulatory ...
The 2022 National Language Policy was fingered as the culprit for abysmal performance in public examinations; it was said to have “destroyed” the education system, as pupils and students often ...