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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.