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.

Buhari     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Amule     Ebola     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Babata     Oluwole Dupe     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Bank Of Industry     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Bello Oyedepo     COVID     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Bio Ibrahim     Tanke Road     NaAllah     Gobir     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Maryam Nurudeen     Ekiti     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Moro     Owode Market     Kwara Pdp     Bukola Ajikobi     Umaru Saro     Olatunji Bamgbola     Magaji Are     Congress For National Consensus     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     ITEM 7     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Bashirat Bola Bello     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Adedipe     Usman Rifun     Moses Salami     Olusegun Adeniyi     Tunde Kazeem     Tunji Olawuyi     Matthew Okedare     Segun Ogunsola     Monkey Pox     SUBEB     Binta Abubakar Mora     KFA     Saad Omo Iya     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Offa     Sidikat Alaya     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     ANCOPPS     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Alaaya     Haliru Dantoro     Kuliyan Geri     Adijat Adebiyi     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Alabi Lawal     Akeem Lawal     Balogun Gambari     Albert Ogunsola     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Olatunde Olukoya     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Femtech     Bureau Of Lands     Salaudeen Oyewale    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Demola Banu     Iyiola Oyedepo     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     James Ayeni     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Adewuyi Funmilayo     MalHub     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Press Release     Durbar     Abatemi-Usman     Kassim Babamale     S.O. Opowoye     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     AbdulRauf Keji     First Lady     Oniyangi     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Peter Obi     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Police Commissioner     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Kumbi Titiloye     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Ifelodun     Iponrin     Alaro     Ishola Abdullahi     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Ileloke     Ghali Alaaya     Daud Adeshola     Medview Airlines     Bashir Badawi     Kale Kawu     Ijakadi     Jimoh Akani     Sa\'adu Gambari     Olatunji Bamgbola     Kwara University Of Education     Ilorin International Airport     Erubu     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Sa\'adu Salau     Amos Justus Sayo     Kwara State Pension Board     David Oyedepo     Labaeka     Shuaib Jawondo     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Nigerian Army     Lanre Jimoh     Bola Shagaya     KWAFFA     Idris Garuba     Monsurat Omotosho     Jimba Babatunde     Timothy Akangbe     Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore     Wasiu Odewale     UNILORIN Alumni     Hijaab     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Abubakar Usman Jos     Abdullahi Atanda     Doyin Awoyale     Oko     Nurudeen Muhammed     Ahmed Bayero     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Raliat Islamic Foundation