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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) is a news reporting agency owned and run by the Federal Government of Nigeria just like Nigerian Television Authority. [1] NAN was formed in part to disseminate news easily across the country and to the international community and also as a means to counter negative stories about Nigeria. [2]
News agencies were created to provide newspapers with information about a wide variety of news events happening around the world. Initially the agencies were meant to provide the news items only to newspapers, but with the passage of time the rapidly developing modern mediums such as radio, television and Internet too adapted the services of news agencies.
This list includes notable companies with primary headquarters located in the country. The industry and sector follow the Industry Classification Benchmark taxonomy. Organizations which have ceased operations are included and noted as defunct. Most of these companies (defunct or thriving) had or have their head offices in Lagos State of Nigeria.
Border Communities Development Agency [9] (BCDA) Federal Road Safety Corps; National Energy Council; Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission; National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NaHCON) [10] Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) Federal Character Commission
U.S. Newswire – a U.S. national news release wire service established in 1986 and distributes media materials on behalf of a variety of customers, particularly the U.S. government and non-profit agencies. [8] [9] It is based in Washington DC and was acquired from Medialink by PR Newswire on October 1, 2006. [10]
Company Industry Revenue (US$ millions) Profits (US$ millions) 1 Nigeria National Petroleum: Oil and gas 9,706 1,877 2 Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas: Oil and gas 6,315 ... 3 MTN Nigeria: Telecommunications 3,514 536 4 Dangote Cement: Cement 2,699 721 5 Nigerian Petroleum Development: Oil and gas 2,686 219 6 Flour Mills of Nigeria: Agroindustry ...
E. W. Scripps Company: English: Spectrum News United States: Charter Communications: English: TheBlaze United States: Blaze Media English: VOA TV United States: Broadcasting Board of Governors: English (VOA currently broadcasts news in 45 languages) Globovisión Venezuela: Spanish: Telesur Venezuela: La Nueva Televisión del Sur Spanish
This category lists multinational companies headquartered in Nigeria.