Also called, ‘broken’, it is an English-based Creole that has been adopted as a pseudo-lingua franca or nationally spoken language in Nigeria. In some ways, due to the diversity of tribes and dialect ...

Prime 9ja Online Pidgin, a website that aims to deliver news and information to the Nigerian public in pidgin language, has been launched. The website, the first of its kind in Nigeria, seeks to ...

The obvious explanation would be that when confronted with the overwhelming presence of English-speaking whites, the local people had to try their best to pick up bits of the language too so they ...

LAGOS, July 14 (Reuters) - At the Heavenly Citizen's Church in Lagos, the pastor and congregation have adopted a new tool to help them understand Christian scripture: the first Bible translated into ...

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 pronouncements since ...