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 ...

Alongside the internet’s growth in developing countries, new challenges surrounding how social media is used to spread mis- and disinformation have emerged. In Africa, fact checkers are combating this ...

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 ...

Film executive, Mo Abudu reportedly wrote a letter of justification to the Academy which was recently approved. According to 'Oloture' film director, Kenneth Gyang, top film executive, Mo Abudu helped ...

A United States–based language expert, Dr. Foluso Okebiorun, has called for the inclusion of Nigerian Pidgin English in the national school curriculum, describing the language as a vital unifying ...

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 ...

Nigerian five-time Grammy nominee Davido is one of the artists whose songs are on King Charles III's 17-track playlist, which was recently launched on Apple Music. Speaking on the song's inclusion, ...

Nigerian Pidgin English, a Creole language derived from English mixed with other indigenous languages, has evolved over decades as a means of communication between diverse linguistic communities ...

Alongside the internet’s growth in developing countries, new challenges surrounding how social media is used to spread mis- and disinformation have emerged. In Africa, fact checkers are combating this ...