PIDGIN-CREOLE A TOOL FOR NIGERIAN NATIONAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Considering Nigeria as a multilingual nation and her problem of adopting one of the indigenous languages without any bias as her national language, this paper addressed the issues on Nigerian Pidgin and Creole as the only panacea to have the long awaited common national language in the present day Nigeria. The data collected were analysed with concept of descriptive method analysis and translations. The work used accommodation theory as the theoretical framework, and concluded with affirmative recommendation on a wakeup call to the government, in other to salvage the situation.