Although spo- The Nation  150,724 80,596,156  6,232  The Guardian  73,894 39,411,837  59,232  The Punch  39,576 19,453,935  152,928  Vanguard  30,279 29,315,637  178,734  Daily Trust  29,019 14,481,549  723  BBC (Naijá)  6,999  1,114,844  n/a   Table 1: Corpus of Nigerian news in English and Naijá ken widely, no language detection systems support recognizing the creole, in part due to the lack of existing corpora with examples.
1 to support our ultimate goal of modeling the social factors influencing code switching, we first introduce a new corpus of Naijá and English texts and then develop a classifier to distinguish them.