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<p><strong>November 22. Army introduced new language policy for officers, soldiers. </strong>The
 Nigerian Army introduced a new language policy for officers and 
soldiers as the policy would encourage them to be multi-lingual in the 
discharge of their duties across the nation. </p>
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<p>Ability to speak the three major Nigerian languages would be an added
 advantages for recruitment or commissioning into the Army. All 
personnel were given up to December 2018 as the deadline to learn the 
three major Nigerian languages.</p>

<br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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