Education Minister Makes Controversial Statement On Teaching Primary School Pupils In Mother Tongues 

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has made a statement capable of causing public disagreement after he revealed at the end of Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting that primary school public pupils will henceforth be taught in their mother tongue. 

Adamu told State House correspondents that the FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari approved a ‘National Language Policy’ that mandates primary school teachers to teach their pupils across the country in their mother tongues.