This paper describes the methodological procedures that will be used in the collection of data for
a dialectal study of the English of Nigerian university graduates. It also reports on a pilot study
carried out on this topic. The major elicitation instrument will be a Labovian sociolinguistic interview
which will be supplemented by reading materials (Labov 1966). The study will also draw
heavily on the current SuRE methodology by Upton and Llamas (1999). The theoretical framework
that will be used in the analysis of data will be a diglossia model as this approach enables
one to view Nigerian English (NE) and Nigerian Pidgin English (NPE) as two languages operating
in an extended diglossic situation