With five Nigerian languages among the top 100 languages spoken worldwide, Nigeria is conspicuous on the world language map. However, a lot needs to be done to preserve the languages. KOFOWOROLA ...
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Nigeria’s new language policy as ‘cultural genocide’
In a stunning move, Nigeria’s National Council on Education has effectively silenced the voices of its own people by scrapping mother tongue education, undermining the very languages that BBC Igbo, ...
Many of these languages are from the three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Niger-Congo. While the official language in Nigeria is English, and other major languages are ...
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 ...
In the past decade, Nigeria has made great efforts to enrol more children in school. This achievement however brought to the fore – a silent crisis and revelation – that schooling does not equate to ...
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 ...
Check out the Nigerian languages that are widely spoken around the world. See the countries where Nigerian Languages can actually come in handy. Due to many reasons — trans-atlantic slave trade, ...
Nigeria's first-ever entry for the international feature film Oscar category has been disqualified because it contained too much English dialogue. Ten minutes of the film's 95-minute run time is in ...
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 General Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Bible Society of Nigeria, Pastor Samuel Sanusi, discusses the society’s operations over the last 60 years and the importance of promoting local ...
Maduabuchi Sennen Agbo does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
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