THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE POLICY IN NIGERIA: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION

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2006-11-09

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Department of English, Faculty Of Arts, Nasarawa State University, Keffi

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Nigeria is one of Africa’s fledgling Multilingual Federations that has in quick successions experimented with parliamentary and presidential forms of democracy, which has been disrupted by prolonged military intervention. It has toyed with an inarticulate discernible language policy because both past military dictators and present democratic government have refused to take decisions to resolve the problems that have emanated from the policy. The paper therefore looks at what the policy is, how it evolved, what problems have bedeviled the policy and what are the possible ways forward?

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