1 ISSUES IN TRANSLATING SOME TECHNOLOGY LEXICAL ITEMS IN HAUSA BY NASIRU ABUBAKAR DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES (HAUSA UNIT), COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, AL-QALAM UNIVERSITY, KATSINA (AUK) DUTSIN-MA ROAD, P.M.B. 2137 KATSINA KATSINA STATE OF NIGERIA nahamar2013@gmail.com www.nahamar.blogspot.com +2348068322950 AND ALIYU USMAN DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS AND NIGERIAN LANGUAGES, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR NIGERIAN LANGUAGES, ABA, ABIA STATE usman4aliyu@yahoo.com +2348036435520 Being a Paper Presented at the 16 Nigerian Institute Translators and Interpreters (NITI) Congress at Rayfield Hotel Asokoro, Abuja Nigeria.