France has mapped out 600,000 Euros to invest in Nigeria with the aim to make French a language of communication in the country.
The French Ambassador to Nigeria, Emmanuella Blatmann, made this known at the launch of the Solidarity Funds for Innovative Projects (FSPI in French), in Abuja.
The ambassador said that the Embassy of France in Nigeria has officially set in motion a new project entitled ‘French in Nigeria, the language of communication and capacity building,’ financed by a special fund called ‘Solidarity Funds for Innovative Projects (FSPI’ in French) to the sum of €600,000.
The project, with the slogan “ The mic is yours, Naija, aims at positioning French as a real language of communication in secondary schools and in the Nigerian public space, by supporting the training of secondary school teachers in Nigeria and creating a network of media platforms using the French language.
The Ambassador also stated that in line with the foregoing, this FSPI project will make it possible to deploy a program for 50 schools in five States in which local partners have clearly expressed the desire to intensify educational cooperation actions: Enugu, Plateau, Oyo, FCT, and Lagos.
The selected schools will benefit directly from a pilot initiative involving teacher training in France and in Nigeria, and the purchase of books and computer equipment.
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