Exam results from areas which dropped English have declined, the education minister says, announcing the U-turn.

Nigeria is caught in a debate over how its children should learn. The government has scrapped a programme that allowed ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — In Nigeria, people felicitate the successful, police open cans of worms on cutlass-brandishing miscreants, and the criminal rascals meet their Waterloo. Touts, urchins, and heaps of ...

BY OLASUNKANMI AROWOLO Language is never neutral. In Nigeria, it has always been political, cultural and symbolic.

The federal government has cancelled the national policy mandating the use of indigenous languages as the medium of ...

LAGOS/ABUJA (Reuters) - Ask a Nigerian what corrupt politicians do with public funds and he or she may say, "They chop it." The Oxford English Dictionary agrees. Hailing from the streets of Nigeria, ...

Under academy rules, international entries must predominantly be in a non-English language. It’s not the first movie to be disqualified for this reason. By Cara Buckley Nigeria’s first submission for ...

Genevieve Nnaji's 'Lionheart,' Nigeria's first-ever Oscar entry, has been disqualified after not meeting the Academy's rules for English dialogue in international feature film submissions. By Piya ...

Editor’s Note: Kovie Biakolo is a culture writer and multiculturalism scholar. The views expressed here are hers. Read more opinion on CNN. Nigeria’s recently disqualified premier Oscar entry ...