The federal government has cancelled the national policy mandating the use of indigenous languages as the medium of instruction in schools, citing poor performance in public examinations. The government said Nigerian children had been performing abysmally in public examinations as a result of being taught in their mother tongue, reports The Na...
•WAEC candidates The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has admitted errors in the results released early in the week with respect to this year’s Senior Secondary School Examination, SSCE, saying 1,239,884 candidates now have credit passes in five subjects or more, including English Language and Mathematics. The new figure represents 62....
•Students taking WASSCE Only 38.32% of candidates who sat the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) obtained credit and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced. This figure marked a significant drop in performance comp...
Transgender women have been banned from playing in women’s and girls’ cricket in England and Wales after the governing body announced a change in policy today. The move by the England and Wales Cricket Board follows last month’s UK Supreme Court ruling regarding the Equality Act, reports AFP. The UK’s highest court ruled the legal […]...
•MC Oluomo Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, has responded to widespread online ridicule over his spoken English with a fiery comeback, emphasising legacy over language. In a now-viral video clip from a recent public gathering, the Lagos transport union boss addressed critics who mocked a slip he made while speaking English, par...
Having long battled the creeping use of English in advertising, music and film, French MPs have declared a new struggle: keeping their home Olympics this year free from anglicisms. In a resolution adopted yesterday, the lower house of parliament urged organisers of the 2024 Paris Games, as well as athletes, trainers and journalists to use [&he...
•Victor Osimhen celebrates goal Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen will leave Napoli this summer and join “either Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain or an English club”, the Italian club’s president and owner Aurelio De Laurentiis said yesterday. De Laurentiis was responding to an interview that Osimhen, who is with Nigeria at the Africa Cup of Nati...
•Chelsea’s striker Armando Broja (C) celebrates goal The third round of the 2023/24 English FA Cup is well underway as games continued yesterday. Chelsea, Newcastle, and a host of teams were some of the sides that played on an action-packed day, reports AFP. Today, Arsenal welcome Premier League leaders Liverpool to the Emirates Stadium in [&h...
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