Inspiration for evolving the English language has finally come to the largest English-speaking country in Africa: Nigeria. 29 new words were officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary thereby ...

When a language isn’t in the data, its speakers aren’t in the product – and AI cannot be safe, useful, or fair for them.

UMUAHIA-Chairman of the Governing Council of the National institute for Nigerian Languages, NINLAN, Aba, Abia State, Prof. Francis Egbokhare, has described Nigeria’s more than 500 languages as an ...

Nigerian government reaffirmed that all students must continue to register and take English Language and Mathematics for their O-Level examinations. The Nigerian government has reaffirmed that English ...

On November 4, the United States-based Academy Awards or the Oscars disqualified Nigeria’s first-ever submission in the Best International Feature Film category. “Lionheart,” a 2018 drama now ...

Nigerian middle and upper classes increasingly speak English with their children. Linguists and writers worry about the survival of native languages, especially in the south. Titilope Keshinro, a ...

Enike Samuel was getting ready to apply to a master’s program in biological sciences at the University of Alberta in February, when he realized that, because he is from Nigeria, he would have to do ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The recent statement by Nigeria's Imo State government making it compulsory to study the Igbo language at all levels of education in the state is one in a string of similar ...