While agitation for reforms across sectors continues to inform gatherings on Nigerian streets and roads, a clamour which was made a while ago, seemingly forgotten by everyone, has yielded result, and it is good news for the movie industry. When Genevieve Nnaji-directed movie, Lionheart, Nigeria’s first-ever entry for consideration in the International Feature Film category,... Read More

August 22, 2017

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[The Media Blog] BBC Pidgin, first of its kind…last of it?

We don land gidigba! That was the opening sentence as BBC World Service announced that it had begun its broadcast in Pidgin language on the BBC Africa platform. With a minute and 3 seconds long video, the British Media giants, showed off their new team, making promises of an interesting future to come while also... Read More

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BBC, BBC Pidgin, BBC World Service, Pidgin English

August 7, 2017

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The Thread: “Pesin wey don die no dey fear knife” | Twitter NG shares their fave Nigerian expressions

It’s a thing of wonder, isn’t it, how Nigerians can take the English language and do “unheard-of things with it” (The Economist did a whole piece on that). We took Queen’s English and made it our own- hello, Pidgin. We have fantastic coinages (e.g stomach infrastructure; wailing wailers) and deep, interesting proverbs, which we’ll get... Read More

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Nigerian expressions, Pidgin English, proverbs, Slangs. Street talk, The Thread

October 22, 2016

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Farooq Kperogi: My favorite exclamatory expressions in Nigerian English (II)

by Farooq A. Kperogi, Continued from last week (read part one here) 11. “May God punish you!” This maledictory exclamation in Nigerian English can take other forms, such as “My God punish you and your entire family!” “God punish your father and your whole generation!” or simply “God punish you!” Some Nigerian Christians use “Holy... Read More

Nigeriqn English, Pidgin English

May 1, 2015

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Opinion: Pidgin English, the bridge to close our ever-widening cleavage

by Muhammad Ibrahim Although India is far more diverse than Nigeria, many Indians are often amazed that we speak English among ourselves, and not ‘Nigerian’. They think there is a popular language used in the country by that name the same way Hindi is in India. Wait, the Pidgin I know? That’s for the... Read More

broken english, language barrier, Nigerian Pidgin English, Pidgin English

July 3, 2013

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Ojay Aito: Our modern tongue (30 Days, 30 Voices)

by Ojay Aito Couple of years ago while I was a trainee in a media house, I strolled into the mad house in one of the unofficial weekends. You’d agree that there is always a part of you you always left behind in the building, and sometimes at odd hours, you want to go grab... Read More

30 Days, 30 voices, diamonds, modern tongue, Ojay Aito, Pidgin English, prima lingua franca, rebranding

October 7, 2011

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How una see am? Google launches Pidgin English interface

by Seyi Lawal Popular internet search engine, Google, has launched a Pidgin English search interface. The Pidgin page has been added to the page to the Google Nigeria which already had Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba pages. The page contains the Pidgin English adaptation of the Google regular features including “Google.com.ng wey don give” which is... Read More

Google, Pidgin English

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