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Tweet Nigeria: Work has started to study and standardise a language spoken by millions but denied official status, raising hopes for education and communication across West Africa. From the Guardian: A source of news is Wazobia FM, the first radio station in Nigeria to broadcast in Pidgin and registering huge audiences as a result. [...] Tweet Nigeria: allAfrica reports that, in an effort to stem the declining standard of education in Nigeria, leading GSM provider, MTN, has introduced an interschool quiz competition, tagged MTN Smarter Brains Competition. The competition which will draw participants from junior secondary schools in Lagos and other parts of the country will focus primarily on their [...] Tweet Nigeria: At the Ikoyi Prison School, educated inmates such as Adelanwa and Chijioke, who requested that their real identities be hidden, form the bulk of the teaching staff in the school. Adelanwa, who claimed to be a former student of Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, teaches his colleagues in the prison English and Economics, [...] Tweet Director-General of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) said that graduates from some tertiary institutions in Nigeria were not able to make statements in good English. Although the problem with the mastery of English language is also noticeable in some of the world’s great universities, including those in the United States, India and Asia, [...] Tweet Nigeria: Group Advocates Reading Culture Revival All Africa notes that the collapse of the Nigerian educational system has been attributed to the failure of teaching and learning (and not learning and teaching) of English Language in schools. President of The Pulitzar Club Nigeria , Mr. Henry-Otis Amurun said this during an Education Roundtable on [...] Tweet After yesterday’s Euro news marathon, it’s high time I turned my attention to the TEFL scene in Africa: South Africa: Speaking the Language of Hope by Teaching English Through training the Themba women in English, Neilson Young Consulting (NYC) hopes to do more than teach them the basics of a new language. Rather, through [...]  |
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