Implement Mother Tongue Policy for Primary Education, Fed Govt Urged

Date: 2024-01-04

The Old Boys Association of Government Day Secondary School (GSS), Ilorin has appealed to the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government to implement the mother tongue policy for primary education introduced by the immediate past administration of Muhammadu Buhari. Former President Buhari in December 2022 approved a new national language policy for primary schools.

Dan Iya of Ilorin, GSS old boy, Suleiman Kawu, said this in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital at this year annual general meeting of the over 100 years old institution.

Kawu, an engineer, who was the chairman of the occasion, spoke on the topic entitled: “Alumni as solution to stem the tide of alma maters' fading glories.”

He said: “There is no-brainer that it would require time to develop instructional materials and train teachers to make this a reality.

“However, I think that the policy is too good to be discarded, and no amount is too much to invest in it.

“It tends to protect our mother tongues and traditional values from extinction, and improve the quality of our education.

Statistics has shown that using universal languages like English as medium of instruction in schools in developing countries reduce children's assimilation because most times the languages are different from the one they speak at home.

“Some countries are trying their hands at it, and recording encouraging success.

“One of them is Zambia where the authorities announced higher test scores in Mathematics, reading and writing in primary schools in Chavuma District where it is in use since 2014.

“The place of language and its importance in the lives of nations cannot be overemphasised.

“Countries like China, South Korea, Japan are doing great in science, art and humanity largely because their medium of instruction in schools are indigenous to them.

“They are equally the official languages of their respective nations.

“We would do well to follow in their footsteps.”

Also, outgone National President of the association, Alhaji Mohammed Adebayo, urged his colleagues to spare a thought for the school.

“It is a well-known fact that the school has suffered a serious neglect under the successive administrations in the state. If not for the old boys, the story of the school would have been worse.

“All the developmental projects in the school were facilitated by the various sets of the old boys, such developmental projects include renovation of classrooms, hostels, laboratories, provision of boreholes, provision of; transformers, provision of solar power, street lights, clinical equipment, books, furniture, mattresses, sporting facilities,

“We thank the administration for the recent presentation of 500 mattresses, pillows, beddings and furniture and we are still hoping for more.''

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Bankole Omisore     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     KWASAA     Alapado     Mubarak Oladosu     Omotosho     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Ganmo     Sarah Alade     Ilorin General Hospital     Bayer Nigeria Limited     General Hospital     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Playing Host     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Ile Arugbo     Yakubu Gobir     Kemi Adeosun     Oko-Olowo     Sango-UITH Road     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Kabir Shagaya     Yahaya Abdulkareem     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     REO CAKES     Oyelere Oyinloye     Abdulazeez Arowona     Sidikat Alaya     Ilorin Amusement Park     Kwabes     Alanamu     Muhammadu Buhari     Habeeb Saidu     Tosho Yaqub     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Simon Sayomi     Erubu Oba Zubair     Omotoso Musa     CKNG     Saad Belgore     Maja     Sulu Gambari     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Usman Alkali Baba     KWIRS     Hassan Taiye Salam     MAI Akande     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Olusola Saraki     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Segun Olawoyin     Paul Odama     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Owu Fall     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Mutawali     Harmony Holdings     Kolade Solagberu     Gurei     Oke-Ogun     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Omoniyi     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Tricycle Owners Association Of Nigeria     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     AGM Professional Services     Igosun     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Muritala Awodun     Ibrahim Abikan     Local Government     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     Pakata     Moro    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Sambo Murtala     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Daud Adeshola     New Nigeria People’s Party     Zulkifli Ibraheem     TVC Female National Debate     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Tayo Awodiji     Yusuf Lanre Badmus     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Yetunde Balogun     Babaita     Bashir Badawi     Adesoye College     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Kolo     Nigerian Correctional Service     Flights To Ilorin     Aliyu Kora Sabi     TETFUND     Aiyedun     Mohammed Halidu     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     NNPP     Logun     Hamid Bobboyi     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Senate President     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Rapheal Ashaolu     Sodiya     Gwanara     Babs Iwarere     Ahman Pategi     Esinrogunjo     Charles Ibitoye     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     A.E. Afolabi     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Suleiman Ajadi     Yakubu Danladi     Mashood Dauda     Sanusi Abubakar     Seni Saraki     Abdulkareem Alabi     Ibrahim Abiodun     Salihu Ajia     Oko Erin     Magaji Are     Danhawa     Buari Edun     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Millennium Development Goals     Medview Airlines     Oloye     Tafida Of Ilorin     COVID-19 Palliatives     Lanre Issa Onilu     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Demola Banu     Yomi Ogunsola     Ilorin South Constituency     Hassan Taiye Salam     Ridwan Agboola     Rafiu Ajakaye     John Dara     Press Release     Dairo Kunle Paul     Balogun-Ojomu     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Olaosebikan