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BBC News Pidgin is an online news service in West African Pidgin English that was launched by the BBC World Service in 2017. [1] [2] It is based in Lagos, Nigeria.[1]Pidgin, first used by British and African slavers to facilitate the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th century, has become one of the most widely spoken languages in West Africa, with up to 75 million speakers in Nigeria alone.
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This tradition firmly established newspapers as a means to advocate for political reform and accountability, roles they continue to fulfill in Nigeria today. Until the 1990s, most publications were government-owned, but private papers such as the Daily Trust , Next , Nigerian Tribune , The Punch , Vanguard and the Guardian continued to expose ...
The Lagos Daily News is a Nigerian newspaper founded in 1925 that was the first daily newspaper in British West Africa. [1] It was bought by Herbert Macaulay and John Akinlade Caulcrick in 1927. [2] The paper was politically aligned with Macaulay's Nigerian National Democratic Party.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 February 2025. English-language pay television channel This article is about the English-language audio-visual international news and current affairs operations of the BBC. For the BBC's corporate division administering it, as well as the audio-only branding of the same, see BBC World Service. This ...
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.
and "Live from London, you're watching The World Today on BBC News.", going into breaks, different to the "Live from London, this is BBC News." and "Around the world and across the UK this is BBC News." used for the BBC News-branded programmes. The Top of the Hours also has a coming-up section introducing lighter stories, that will be covered.
The Bangladesh Today is a daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka in English language. [1] It started on 26 January 2002. The current circulation of this newspaper is 22,500.