indigenous languages

Government at all levels have been advised to make policies for modern language as it is the future of the world for youths, especially in technology. Speaking at the fifth anniversary of the Atelewo Cultural Initiative, the cofounders…

The United Nations on Friday warned that indigenous languages were disappearing, calling on member states to take urgent steps to reverse the trend. Top officials of the UN, including Secretary-General António Guterres, sounded the…

FOR a long time, the need to adopt the indigenous languages as medium of instruction in Nigerian schools has recurred; it did again a couple of weeks ago when the Federal Government announced that the teaching of Mathematics and other…

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has decried the dwindling ability of most Nigerian children to write and read in their mother tongues. He made this known in Kaduna on Monday  at the 2017 edition of the Annual…