Sir: A man, who cannot speak his native language, is a cultural alien; and as such, he cannot be socialized into his people’s culture. Language, we know, belongs to the non-material aspect of culture.

The tussle over the language of instruction in our schools seems to have left a number of people (mother-) tongue-tied. Why do so many parents prefer that their children be educated in what is, for ...

THE Federal Government’s decision to scrap the mother tongue as a medium of instruction at the primary school level in Nigeria and replace it with the English Language has stirred controversy among ...