The Nigeria
French Language Village was established in December, 1991, as an Inter-University Centre for French studies, operating within the
ambit of the National Universities Commission (NUC) to
provide Language Immersion Programme (LIP), as a domestic alternative to
the mandatory erstwhile foreign-based ( year-abroad ) component of
the B.A/B.Ed French programmes in Nigerian Universities and also the acculturation programme for students of French in Nigerian Colleges of
Education.
The NFLV is essentially a service
institution which provides unique services to Nigerian Universities
(Federal, State and Private) as well as Colleges of Education and lately, some
Polytechnics students of Bilingual Secretarial Studies.
Such services enable Nigeria to preserve the much needed foreign
exchange which would have been expended on the sponsorship of Nigerian students
abroad.
The NFLV is unique, being the only French language institution of its
kind in a non-francophone environment.
Since its establishment, the Village has been mobilising available human
and material resources to promote the effective study and learning of the
French language in Nigeria.