The Federal Government has urged the National Council on Education (NCE) to approve the reversal of the mother tongue as the medium of instruction from Primary One to Six.
The Minister of State for Education, Prof. Suwaiba Ahmad, made the appeal at the 2025 Extraordinary National Council on Education Meeting in Abuja on Thursday.
Ahmad also called on the council to approve the review of the national policy on education to restrict the use of mother tongue to Early Childhood Care Development and Education (ECCDE) and primary one.
The NCE had previously advocated for the use of the mother tongue of the immediate environment as the medium of instruction in the first three years of primary education, leading the Federal Executive Council to approve its implementation on 30 November 2022.
However, the minister of state said the policy implementation was challenging due to the multiple languages spoken in Nigerian communities.
