With five Nigerian languages among the top 100 languages spoken worldwide, Nigeria is conspicuous on the world language map. However, a lot needs to be done to preserve the languages. KOFOWOROLA ...

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 ...

On the African continent, Nigeria ranks fifth in English proficiency. According to data, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and ...

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 ranked the fifth-best English-speaking country in Africa, according to the 2025 EF English Proficiency Index, ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. In its February update, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) included numerous new ...

Lagos — A maginative writers use language creatively to give aesthetic pleasure and educate their audience. They hone it, expand its vocabulary, violate its grammatical law, and distort and stress its ...

Through the Ministry of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, the Nigerian government has launched Nigeria’s first multilingual large language model (LLM) as the country pushes forward to ...

Bello Usman Abdullahi, the chief operating officer of the blockchain education platform Bitkova Academy, said the language barrier is one of the current major challenges. While Nigeria has a high ...

Nigeria and Qatar have resolved to work together to boost the translation of Arabic literature into the Yoruba language. This initiative between the Nigeria Centre for Arabic Research and Sheikh Hamad ...