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 ...

Now that this series on language is coming to an end, it is only appropriate for me to give some background information about the subject that I have been discussing. This series is an extended ...

The latest update reflects the growing global reach of Nigerian language and culture. On Wednesday, 7 January 2026, the OED announced the inclusion of 22 new expressions from the region, reflecting ...

The House of Representatives has passed a bill for first reading to establish the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Federal University of Nigerian Languages. This, the House noted, aims at promoting Nigerian language ...

They wore native Nigerian attire, the men in senator shirts and the women in boubous and headgear fanning out like giant halos. The choir broke into an Igbo hymn, helmed by a sonorous voice belonging ...

For decades, digital assistants like Alexa and Siri failed to speak the languages of Nigeria’s people. Now, that reality is changing,thanks to NaijaVoices, a groundbreaking local-language Artificial ...

The greeting "namaste" associated with yoga and the Pidgin word for trouble, "wahala", widely used across the world thanks to Afrobeats, speak to Indian and Nigerian influences on the English language ...

By PEACE IJIYERA FOR many Yoruba Nigerian youths born and raised in the diaspora, it can be difficult to [...] ...