Many of these languages are from the three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Niger-Congo. While the official language in Nigeria is English, and other major languages are ...

Language advocates are left stunned as the Federal Government of Nigeria suddenly reverses its 2022 National Language Policy that mandates Indigenous languages in education, while re-introducing ...

Nigeria stands as one of the most linguistically diverse nations in the world, with over 520 indigenous languages spoken across its 36 states and capital territory From Hausa in the north to Yoruba in ...

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has emphasised the importance of promoting Nigeria’s indigenous languages and cultural values as key tools for national growth and identity preservation. Speaking ...

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, ...

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 ...

Tyap is a dialect cluster of Plateau languages that is spoken in the Middle-Belt region in Nigeria. Like many of the languages spoken in this area, Tyap language is currently affected by Hausa ...