A non-profit organization, Regen Education and Leadership Initiative, (RELI) has sought the use of native language to enhance teaching and learning in early education years.
The stressed the need to deploy mother tongue as instructional language.
Speaking at the head office of the National Orientation Agency in Osun State to explore area of partnership on Thursday, Adeyemi Adedeji said the RELI’s area of operation covers SDG Goal 4, which is inclusive, high quality education for all.
Adedeji said the agenda is in line with the Federal Government National Language Policy in Education to ensure deployment of mother tongue in basic education.
According to him, “We are working to assist government to address the challenges of training teachers in the use of the Mother Tongue for instruction in their various subject areas, development of instructional materials in the mother tongue and advocacy to schools and parents to embrace the National Language Policy in Education, the area in which the NGO needed the partnership with the National Orientation Agency”
However, the Director of the National Orientation Agency , Osun State,
Dr. Bola Morga commended the RELI team for their foresight and dexterity in articulating the NGO’s ideals, adding that it was rare to see young people driven by the need to preserve the nation’s native languages and culture.
Dr Morgan lauded the group’s ambition to support the government’s effort to overcome the identified challenges in the path of Mother Tongue in Education in Nigeria.
She informed the RELI team that one of the initiatives of the Director General, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu was to start a programme of Volunteer Community Brigadiers who would be equipped to conduct advocacy on national values to communities using the mother tongue.
