Nigeria: Minister Advocates Promotion of Indigenous Languages

3 October 2012

In a bid to ensure the promotion of Nigerian languages, the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation recently gave its quota to the education sector during the handing over of the Harmonised and Standardized Orthography of Four Nigerian and other related Languages to the Minister of State for Education, Barr. Nyesom Wike in Abuja.

Speaking at the event, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation,Chief Edem Duke, said that most African and Nigerian languages are facing threats of extinction. Quoting UNESCO, he said 30 per cent of the world's languages were spoken in Africa but now on the verge of extinction due to use of English.

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