THE Federal Executive Council, FEC, yesterday approved a new National Language Policy which makes mother tongue a compulsory medium of instruction from primary one to six. The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. The minister said the government was aware that implementation would be challenging,but noted that for the first six years of education, mother tongue would be the only medium of instruction, adding that it would be combined with English, starting