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 ...

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, ...

President of Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN), Prof. Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche, on Tuesday in Abuja, said about 400 Nigerian indigenous languages were endangered. Ohiri-Aniche made the disclosure ...

Nigeria with its diverse cultural heritage and impressive linguistic diversity, boasts over 500 distinct indigenous languages. However, many of these languages are gradually fading away due to the ...

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 ...

Officials of the Nigerian Army have been ordered to be proficient in Nigeria’s three major languages before 2019. This was confirmed in a statement by its spokesperson, Brigadier General Sani Usman, ...

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 ...

Returning for the third year in a row, this year’s highly anticipated International Day of Francophonie in Lagos, drew ...

The use of blockchain and AI to improve various areas of society is essential in Africa now more than ever. Lucky Uwakwe, chairman of the Blockchain Industry Coordinating Committee of Nigeria (BICCoN) ...

Sir: With over 520 different languages, Nigeria holds the third-highest number of spoken languages in the world. Four of these – Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, and Ijaw – are spoken by about 78 percent of the ...