CHAPTER ONE

 1.0 INTRODUCTION

 Nigeria   is   a   multilingual   country  with   four   hundred  indigenouslanguages,  out  of  which  three  are  regarded  as  major  ones,  namely: Hausa,  Igbo  and  Yoruba,  representing  the  three  major  geo-political  zones - North, East and South respectively. Despite this fact, NigerianPidgin is used in diverse degrees in different parts of the country and ithas  become a  lingua  franca  for  many,  while  it  is  a  Creole  in  some  Southern and Eastern States like Rivers, Lagos, Delta, Edo, and CrossRivers.  Marchese   and  Schnkal  (1980)  confirm  this   after  a  major evolution in the Delta area of Nigeria, they say; "... in a particular part  of Nigeria, the areas around Warri and Sapele, Nigerian pidgin is more  of a Creole. Creole is a mixture of an European language with a local language and is spoken as a first language.

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