Key takeaways
- In a move that has ignited a national conversation, the Nigerian government has abruptly ended its groundbreaking policy of using indigenous languages as the primary medium of instruction in early primary school.
- Just three years after its launch, the program has been scrapped, with English reinstated from pre-primary all the way to university level.
- This decision marks a dramatic U-turn in the country's education policy and forces us to ask a critical question: Was this a necessary correction to save a failing system, or a premature surrender of a noble goal?
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