As part of its Naija Corpus Program, IFRA-Nigeria will organise a 5-day workshop at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The participants will be trained by Professor Bernard Caron to use PRAAT, specialized software for phonetics, to transcribe, translate, annotate, and time-align linguistic data. The aim of IFRA-N Naija Corpus Project is to produce a 6-hour corpus of oral Naija (aka Nigeria Pidgin) for further linguistic studies meant to produce a reference grammar and a dictionary of the language.

Taking part in the workshop :

• Miss Ononuju Ndidiamaka EJECHI, Department of European Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. PhD candidate in Literature working on "Language as instrument for social change in selected novels of post-independence francophone African women writers."

• Mr. David Oshorenoya ESIZIMETOR, National Open University of Nigeria, Benin Study Centre, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. PhD candidate in linguistics working on the "Morphology of Naija" at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan.

• Mr. Olusoji D. WUSU, a student and research assistant at Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria.