Nigeria's educational system faces a linguistic crisis that we have been reluctant to acknowledge. While we obsess over pedagogy, teacher training, and curriculum reform, our students continue to fail JAMB examinations and struggle with STEM subjects at alarming rates.
The uncomfortable truth is this: we are teaching our children in a language that undermines their cognitive potential while simultaneously allowing their mother tongues to wither away. This linguistic dysfunction may be the missing piece in understanding why our brilliant, tec
