Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed, has called for the use of Nigerian languages for instruction as a strategy to correct poor academic performances in schools.

Ahmed noted when the national leadership of the Nigeria Academy of Letters (NAL) paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House in Ilorin at the weekend that most students perform poorly due largely to the use of English as language of instruction which hinder their interpretation.

"They can't interpret questions. If these instructions were written in the languages they understand, they would interpret the questions and do well in exams", Ahmed said.

He said if concerted effort was not made Nigerian languages would go extinct, especially if they were not languages of commerce and instruction. He charged members of the Nigeria Academy of Letters to be in the vanguard for the promotion of Nigerian languages as languages of instruction and commerce. The President of NAL, Prof. Olatunji Olahuntimehin, said the academy would lead the ways in humanity studies for national development.