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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.
BBC News, The World Today, Verified Live, BBC News Now, 'BBC Weekend News' Kasia Madera: Lucy Grey BBC News, The World Today, Verified Live, BBC News Now, BBC Weekend News: Rich Preston: Rajini Vaidyanathan Lewis Vaughan Jones Nancy Kacungira: Currently on maternity leave Vishala Sri-Pathma BBC News, Business Today: Business presenters Lukwesa ...
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 ...
In Business Africa is a BBC news programme broadcast on BBC World News globally and on local partner channels of the BBC in African countries. [1] The programme is presented by Nancy Kacungira in Lagos, Nigeria and Lerato Mbele in South Africa. [2]
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.
7 April – BBC News launches a new two-hour weekday current affairs programme called The Victoria Derbyshire Show. The programme is broadcast on both BBC Two and the BBC News Channel. [45] 1 June – BBC World News programmes Outside Source and Business Live make their debut on the BBC News Channel. They appear as a result of cutbacks which ...
2010. 31 January – The final 03:00 edition of World News Today airs as five editions are replaced on BBC World News are replaced.; 2011. No events. 2012. 25 October – Following the completion of digital switchover in the UK, the BBC News Channel is available to all UK households for the first time, almost fifteen years after the channel first launched.
BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production. It is one of the most popular news websites, [ 3 ] with 1.2 billion website visits in April 2021, [ 4 ] as well as being used by 60% of the UK's internet users for news.