Linguistically speaking, Nigeria is a rich, indeed a very rich nation. The reason is Nigeria is home to over 500 independent languages all vying for support and patronage from government as well as from the nation’s citizens as instruments of communication. If the world, roughly, hasnearly 7000 languages, as current researches have shown, Nigeria will be contributing about 14per cent to the pool of global languages while in Africa, given the continent’s over 2000 tongues, Nigeria can claim its share of about one quarter out of that grand total.