Nigeria is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world, with over 500 languages spoken across its regions. Despite Nigeria’s multilingual nature, English is the official language. It ...

Nigeria govment don suspend one national policy wey make compulsory, di use of native languages as di medium of instruction for schools. Di Minister of Education Tunji Alausa, announce dis informate ...

"A country that deprives its young ones of education in their mother tongue has denied them access to the deepest and most ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

IT is likely that language campaigners who are steadily focused on using the change in curriculum that is now being put into ...

Education Minister Tunji Alausa says uneven literacy rates show nationwide learning emergency, driving sweeping reforms to improve education quality and access.

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 ...