There are over 500 indigenous languages currently spoken in Nigeria. However, the official language is English. The other major languages spoken in Nigeria are: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Ibibio, Edo, ...

Sociolinguistic factors play a significant role in the emergence and development of pidgins and creoles, and their role in the development of West African Pidgin English based (WAPE) varieties is not ...

LAGOS (Reuters Life!) - It may share many of its words and basic grammar with English, but a perplexed look descends across the face of most newcomers to Nigeria the first time they are addressed in ...

Film executive, Mo Abudu reportedly wrote a letter of justification to the Academy which was recently approved. According to 'Oloture' film director, Kenneth Gyang, top film executive, Mo Abudu helped ...

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 Nigerian pidgin. By Angela ...

Nigerian Pidgin English, a Creole language derived from English mixed with other indigenous languages, has evolved over decades as a means of communication between diverse linguistic communities ...

Alongside the internet’s growth in developing countries, new challenges surrounding how social media is used to spread mis- and disinformation have emerged. In Africa, fact checkers are combating this ...

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 ...

British Monarch King Charles III has expressed love for Pidgin English after listening to music by Nigerian five-time Grammy nominee David Adeleke, popularly called Davido, who is on a 17-track ...

British Monarch King Charles III has expressed love for Pidgin English after listening to music by Nigerian five-time Grammy nominee David Adeleke, popularly called Davido, who is on a 17-track ...