Efforts to promote Nigerian languages are being ignored by educators and local politicians. But Nigerian Pidgin, spoken by about half the population of the country, is widely used by young people in ...
In a world that is increasingly becoming globalized, there is an existential threat to indigenous languages by the march of ...
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 ...
The prediction by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) that the Igbo Language will go into extinction by 2050 is not based on any empirical evidence, a ...
Typing Nigerian languages, such as Yorùbá and Igbo, is usually a challenge as most keyboards are not equipped for the tonality that characterizes them. These technical barriers have been a source of ...
As Ofala Festival, a major event in the Nigerian cultural calendar, wraps for another year, one of the country’s leading ...
Check out the Nigerian languages that are widely spoken around the world. Yoruba is one of the most widely spoken Nigerian languages, heard in Togo, North America, UK and Europe. A Adaobi Onyeakagbu ...
With a population of around 40 million throughout Nigeria, the Igbo people are one of the biggest and most influential tribes among countries around the world. Igbos are well-known for their ...
With noon temperatures exceeding 100 degrees, visitors to Habakkuk Nwafor’s family compound in Abuja seek shelter in a palm-fronds hut adjoining his private shrine. No grass grows through the sandy ...
The new film [Onye Ozi] was premiered in London on Oct. 18 and watched in 60 different countries that same day including Saudi Arabia. is hoped to become successfully accepted like, Living in Bondage, ...
In this report, Amarachi Okeh writes about how the preservation of some Nigerian native languages is increasingly threatened by the emphasis placed on English language usage and how this trend could ...