Mainstreaming indigenous languages in the broadcasting industry is a major pillar of enhancing communication in Mass media, Social media.
Mainstreaming indigenous language broadcasting in mass communication curriculum in Nigeria and improving the quality of translation in media organizations has been identified as means of enhancing communication in the mass media and the new media.
Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University Kashere Gombe, Professor Umaru Pate stated this during a roundtable meeting on translation of indigenous languages in Investment and Data-driven journalism held at Bayero University Kano.
He said the aim of the roundtable meeting was to enhance modalities of ensuring that indigenous languages were properly taught and mainstreamed into the curriculum of communication, geared towards understanding the linkages that exist between the local languages and communication particularly in the broadcast sector.
Professor Umaru Pate maintained that the meeting would also pave way in ensuring that the quality of translation in the local languages was standardized and improved with aim of ensuring that people get the real meaning of messages as intended.
“All of these were coming base on studies, where we found that the quality of translation needed to be improved so that people can be fully informed in their own languages, we need to reawaken ourselves and see how we mainstream all of these, particularly with the challenge of the Social media”
In their separate remarks, the Director News Federal Radio Radio Corporation of Nigeria Malam Sani Suleiman and the General Manager NTA News24 Fatima Abbas said the issues of indigenous languages was very paramount in the two stations, stressing that efforts are been made to evolve new techniques and innovations to strengthen its usage.
The interactive meeting was attended by participants from both academia and the broadcast industry.
Abdullahi Jalaluddeen