Adults learning another language often tend to continue using the intonation of their native language. This causes them to ...

Communicating in one’s mother tongue does not indicate that one cannot speak or understand other languages, including the English language. But the interest shown in the deployment of the English ...

On an ordinary day at a junior secondary school in southeastern Nigeria, an Igbo language teacher walks into a classroom and begins the lesson with a greeting. When the learners greet her in unison ...

kk ll Uju Ekedozie is a firm believer that language is at the heart of embracing a new home. As the chairwoman of the Waterford Migrant Integration Forum, Ms Ekedozie works hard to make new arrivals ...

Enugu — Okuko n'akpa nni, anya ufie akonaya (while a chicken scants for food, it should not lose sight of other odd happenings around it) is a brief but all encompassing statement of wisdom used to ...

A video of some Chinese children learning Igbo language in a school in China has emerged on social media. This video may well depict a strong relationship between the Chinese and South-Eastern Nigeria ...

The state Commissioner for Education, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, who spoke during the matriculation ceremony of the State College of Nursing and Midwifery, Orlu, said the learning and teaching of Igbo ...

Concerned by the threat of extinction of the Igbo language, some Igbo women under the aegis of the Igbo Women Assembly (IWA) have designed a programme to help save the Igbo language from going into ...

Enugu – An Octogenarian and writer, Prof Anezi Okoro has expressed fears about the Igbo language going extinct in the hands of the present generation. Igwe Achebe Obi of Onitsha and Chief Ayo Adebanjo ...

Lagos — The recent law stipulating Igbo language and attire for Anambra State schools is, so far, the loudest demonstration of concern for indigenous tongues in Nigeria, which experts classify as ...