The President of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria, Prof. Gideon Omachonu, has described the reversal of the National Language Policy as both a pedagogical failure and a moral wrong. He reminded ...

The recent statement by Nigeria’s Imo State government making it compulsory to study the Igbo language at all levels of education in the state is one in a string of similar pronouncements since ...

Nigeria is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world, with over 500 languages spoken across its regions. Despite Nigeria’s multilingual nature, English is the official language. It ...

In its February update, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) included numerous new words of Nigerian origin. Many of the words relate to food preparation, urban transportation, the shortening of ...

Voice-activated virtual assistant technologies, such as Siri and Alexa, are becoming increasingly common around the world, but in Africa, with its many languages, most people are at a digital ...

Communication and language is said to exceed colours of skin and nations; this was proved when pupils from different Nigerian Turkish International Schools around the country gathered in Abuja for the ...

See the countries where Nigerian Languages can actually come in handy. Due to many reasons — trans-atlantic slave trade, cattle grazing, immigration — small communities have grown in other countries ...

On November 4, the United States-based Academy Awards or the Oscars disqualified Nigeria’s first-ever submission in the Best International Feature Film category. “Lionheart,” a 2018 drama now ...

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has disqualified from competition in the International Feature Film category the Nigerian film “Lionheart” because most of the dialogue is in English.

The recent statement by Nigeria’s Imo State government making it compulsory to study the Igbo language at all levels of education in the state is one in a string of similar pronouncements since ...