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 ...

LAGOS (Reuters Life!) - It may share many of its words and basic grammar with English, but a perplexed look descends across the face of most newcomers to Nigeria the first time they are addressed in ...

In a world that is increasingly becoming globalized, there is an existential threat to indigenous languages by the march of ...

There are over 500 indigenous languages currently spoken in Nigeria. However, the official language is English. The other major languages spoken in Nigeria are: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Ibibio, Edo, ...

Also called, ‘broken’, it is an English-based Creole that has been adopted as a pseudo-lingua franca or nationally spoken language in Nigeria. In some ways, due to the diversity of tribes and dialect ...

The Nigerian pidgin English has become Nigeria’s unofficial language. Almost every Nigerian has come to accept and love it as part of their identity. A Nigerian who doesn’t speak pidgin well is almost ...

'Oloture' a movie on Netflix was made in Pidgin [Photo: Courtesy] Nigerian Pidgin English has been accepted as a foreign language for the Oscars, one of the most prestigious film industry awards.

A United States–based language expert, Dr. Foluso Okebiorun, has called for the inclusion of Nigerian Pidgin English in the ...

At the Heavenly Citizen's Church in Lagos, the pastor and congregation have adopted a new tool to help them understand Christian scripture: the first Bible translated into Nigerian pidgin. By Angela ...