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 ...

Nigerian Pidgin has grown in popularity across music, film, and social media, becoming a defining voice of modern Nigerian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Dr. Joy Odewumi teaches English at the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Ijaniki, Lagos. Her area of interest is the use and value of Nigerian pidgin English. This is an aspect she has taken to ...

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 ...

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 ...