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While underscoring the towering political, economic and demographic position of Nigeria in Africa and the indespensible reality of the impact of her colonial past on the country's choice of English as her official language, the essay strongly argues that Nigeria has to moblize all her human resources and political will as well as overhual her academic curriculum in all levels of education to make her recent pronouncement on French as her second official language a concrete reality, and this, for the benefit of individual Nigerians and the country as a geopolitical power in Africa and also to encourage other African countries to accept official multilingualism in European languages(particularly French and English) as the most potent asset for active participation in world politics and diplomacy as well as international trade and panhuman understanding.