Old students urge FG to prioritise local languages in schools 

Old students of Government Secondary School (GSS) Ilorin, Kwara State, have called on the Federal Government to prioritise the use of local languages in schools at all levels across the country.
   
They reasoned that global statistics showed that using universal language like English as medium of instruction in schools in developing countries “reduces children’s assimilation because most times the languages are different from the one they speak at home.”
   

He said: “It makes mother tongue a compulsory medium of instruction from Primary One to Six. There is no-brainer that it would require time to develop instructional materials and train teachers to make this a reality.
  
“However, I think 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.”