Useability of mother tongue for basic learning

In Nigeria, the use of local languages or vernacular, as it is called, is banned in most schools, this suggests why the World Bank, in a recent report about the standard of education in Nigeria, stated that the country is experiencing a learning poverty in which 70 per cent of 10-year-olds cannot understand a simple sentence or perform basic numeracy tasks.

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