 The federal government has approved a new national language policy, making the various mother tongues compulsory medium of instruction from primary 1 to 6. Briefing State House Correspondents the Minister of Education, Adam Wademo, who noted that the policy takes immediate effect, stated that the government is aware that its implementation will be difficult but necessary to promote the cultivation in the use of all Nigerian languages. It revealed that as of today, 29 languages have become extinct, leaving the country with 625. We require a lot of work to develop the material to teach and get the teachers and so on, but the policy has been approved. The language that will be chosen is the language that the community communicates in. But other Nigerian languages, the policy encourages their teaching and their learning. And in addition, of course, the learning of international languages subjects will continue. In other words, your arithmetic, your mathematics, your natural study will be taught in your mother tongue, including your English language. I mean, we went to school a long time ago and I remember that our mother tongue was the medium of instruction and it has been proven scientifically that those that children do better when you use explain to them in their mother tongue than in another language.