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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

As English language gains more prominence in both official and private circles in the country, ominous signs stab Yoruba, Igbo and many other indigenous languages in the face as less and less people ...

To curtail this, linguists in the country have called on the Federal Government to undertake a language survey, documentation and analysis of oral legislature and lexicon to have a correct statistics ...

Google has expanded language support for its AI Search features, AI Overviews and AI Mode, to include Yorùbá and Hausa. According to ...

The national librarian and chief executive officer of the National Library of Nigeria (NLN), Prof. Chinwe Veronica Anunobi, has called for urgent and sustained efforts to safeguard Nigeria’s more than ...