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On Language and National Integration/Development (IV)

Over three decades ago, pondering on the language question in national development, the frontline Nigerian linguist, Professor Ayo Bamgbose, made cert

On Language and National Development/Integration (III)

If we had a choice, we would have chosen French.  First, it is a language which has enjoyed a far-reaching influence and which shall enjoy it in great

On Language and National Development/Integration (II)

Some proposals have been made; some of them given as constitutional tokens, some outright political, while some are even sheer academic exercises. Yet

Who falsified this hadith?

A lead paper of the same title was presented by a representative of FOMWAN (Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria). As usual, in a pres

On language and national development/integration (I)

If anyone is in doubt as to the critical place of language in our country’s national consciousness, national discourse and national reconstruction, th