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50 UniAbuja students undergo Guosa language training

- By Shaba Abubakar Idris

At least 50 students of the University of Abuja, Gwagwalada, have been trained in Guosa language.

Guosa language evolutioni­st, Prof. Alex Igbineweka, has engaged the 50 students on train-the-trainers basis for two weeks.

Igbineweka, who spoke with City News during the programme at the permanent site of the university, said Guosa language was a common indigenous lingua franca in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

“Guosa Language is a scientific and artistic evolution of integratio­n of all languages and dialects to be found in Nigeria and other West African nations,” he explained.

He said the language is a medium of communicat­ion for unity, identity, tourism, political stability, culture, science and technologi­cal breakthrou­gh.

“Guosa language is now an internatio­nal language that has gradually spread its tentacles in internatio­nal academic institutio­ns worldwide. The American Heritage University in Southern California has adopted it as a subject and anybody can apply to study Guosa language in the university,” he added.

He appealed to the management of the National Universiti­es Commission (NUC) to work with him to develop the Guosa language for the sake of posterity.

Prof Igbineweka, however, advised students in the institutio­ns of higher learning across the globe to deem it necessary to learn or study the language, saying that Guosa is a language that connects every ethnic group or every tribe in Nigeria.

Also speaking during the train-thetrainer­s programme, a 200 level student in the Department of Linguistic­s at the University of Abuja, Adejumo Jumoke Grace, commended the initiator of the Guosa language for the steps taken to grow the language.

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