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- 25 Feb 2019
BBC World Service English Launches New app for Low Cost News Access
BBC World Service English has launched a brand new app to help people access news and radio programmes in areas where mobile data is expensive or internet coverage is limited. Developed by BBC…
- 25 Jun 2020
BBC World Service Partners MTN to Curb Spread of Fake News
BBC World Service has partnered with MTN Nigeria to deliver BBC News Minute bulletins which will be free of charge to subscribers of the MyMTN App in English, Hausa, Igbo, Pidgin and Yoruba. This is…
- 16 Jul 2015
'Radio Biafra’ Broadcasting Lies against Buhari: Presidency
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday denied claims that he showed anti-igbo sentiments in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service as alleged by Radio Biafra, the propaganda channel. This is the…
- 20 Feb 2018
BBC Launches Igbo, Yoruba Language Services in Nigeria
The BBC this week launches its new Igbo and Yoruba services in Nigeria, as part of an expansion in local languages aimed at more in-depth reporting of countries around the world. The digital-only…
- 30 Jul 2014
Chibok Parents, Leaders Fight Over FG’s N100m Cash Gift
Parents of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls and the community’s leader are at loggerheads over the sharing of the N100m cash gift allegedly given to the parents of the students by President…
- 11 Jun 2012
BBC Focuses On Africa
After its first broadcast to Africa more than 80 years ago, BBC has announced its first-ever dedicated daily TV news programme in English for African audiences. The new programme, BBC Focus on…
- 23 Oct 2020
NIS Sacks 60 over Bribes
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has announced that at least 60 personnels have been sacked after they were caught receiving or giving bribes. Muhammad Babandede, comptroller general of…
- 22 Dec 2014
Sheriff Opens Up on Boko Haram, Says Chad Has Solution
Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, former governor of Borno State, has opened up on what he knows about the Boko Haram insurgents currently ravaging states in the northeast and some other parts of the…
- 10 Sept 2015
DSS Screens Buhari’s Ministerial Nominees
Department of State Services (DSS) has reportedly commenced the screening of ministerial nominees sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari, according to Punch Newspapers. It was gathered that no…
- 15 Oct 2016
Aisha Refuses to Back Buhari, Husband for 2019 Re-Election
First Lady Aisha Buhari drew an instant response from President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday after threatening on air that she might not support his re-election bid in 2019. Speaking in an interview…
- 13 Jun 2014
OBJ Claims Contact with B. Haram, Raises Alarm over Abducted Girls
Olusegun Obasanjo, former president has disclosed that some of the school girls abducted in Chibok, Borno state by Boko haram sect in April 2014 may never return to their family. He also claimed he…
- 26 Sept 2015
Buhari Rejects Ministerial Nominees from States
Governors and leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) should expect the shock of their lives as President Muhammadu Buhari prepares to unveil members of his much expected cabinet with several…