Why is English chosen as Nigeria's official language?

Nigeria is a multilingual country comprises of different ethnic groups, which occupied geographically, a complicated landscape from its historic-cultural, political, economic and educational developments. read more

Nigeria was a colony of Britain and so English was the official language during colonial times. After independence, it occured to us that we had over 200 languages in Nigeria. read more

510 living languages, 2 second languages without native speakers and 9 extinct languages. The official language of Nigeria, English, was chosen to facilitate the cultural and linguistic unity of the country post-colonization by the British. read more

The official language of Nigeria, English, the former colonial language, was chosen to facilitate the cultural and linguistic unity of the country. The major languages spoken in Nigeria are Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Fulfulde, Kanuri, and Ibibio. read more