International Mother Language Day: Federal University Lokoja Celebrates
INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY: FEDERAL UNIVERSITY LOKOJA CELEBRATES By Dada Babajide Razak The Federal University Lokoja, celebrated 2024 international mother language day with great funfare and pageantry on Wednesday, 21st February, 2024. International Mother Language day is a day set aside by United Nation to celebrate multi Lingual languages and cultural diversity across the globe . At it's Felele campus, the university was a buzz with activities as the department of Linguistics and African Languages led the celebrations with the theme : *Multilingual Education is a pillar of intergenerational learning"* The acting HOD for the department Dr. Tosin Olagunju implored the students to promote and sustain their mother language and use it often with pride. In the same vein, the awardee of a Grant (hosted by the institution) funded by Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), based in Germany, to document the Ososo language and Ovbiko Maiden Initiation Rit