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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nigeria is beautiful in its diversity. Every corner of the country has its own language, traditions, and ways of life. And yet, I’ve noticed how often we take these differences for granted—or worse, ...

IT is likely that language campaigners who are steadily focused on using the change in curriculum that is now being put into ...

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, ...

The Nigerian government has been urged to incorporate the Korean language into school curriculum to enable students and young ...

NIGERIA is a country of voices, yet too many of those voices are being silenced in the digital age. While the world races ahead with artificial intelligence, speech recognition, and smart apps, ...

The decision of the 69th National Council on Education (NCE) to cancel the National Language Policy has met with great condemnation from stakeholders across walks of life. I should put it ...