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Are Nigerian indigenous languages going extinct?

Nigeria as a multilingual nation has major and minor languages intertwined by dialects, though the exact number of local or indigenous languages spread over its about 250 ethnic groups is not known.

2 years ago

by Guardian Nigeria

Reversing the drift to terrorism and social anomie

It took less than seven years for Nigeria under local leadership to descend into a civil war, less than 30 years for the first open resistance to the establishment in Islamic Northern

4 years ago

Columnists·Opinion

[FILE PHOTO] Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki (left) and Olofa of Offa, HRH Oba Muftau Gbadamosi Esuwoye II, during a condolence visit by Saraki to Offa, following last week’s bank robbery attacks, yesterday.

Re: How the Olofa won his shoes

Sir: Chief Obafemi Awolowo lived to witness the fulfilment of his desire for the creation of new regions – or, as some might view it, the balkanisation of the Northern Region. He

6 years ago