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- 24 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…
- 9 May 2013
FG Employs 1,000 English, Maths Teachers
Federal government has granted approval for the immediate employment of about 1, 000 teachers of Mathematics and English Language towards addressing the shortage of teachers in these critical…
- 11 Feb 2020
NTA Acquires Rights to Broadcast English Premier League Matches
Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) has acquired sub-licensed rights to broadcast at least one English Premier League fixture per match week over the course of the 2019/2022 rights cycle.. According…
- 10 Apr 2019
Konga Eyes Other English-Speaking West African Countries
Konga, Nigeria’s foremost retail giant, could soon enter into other English-speaking West African countries as it moves to stamp its authority in e-Commerce space. Nick Imudia, co-chief…
- 10 Aug 2013
SuperSport Shops for Pidgin English Commentator
SuperSport, the pay TV channel on DSTv has embarked on search for Nigerians who can run commentaries on the Glo Premier League, in a novel initiative, aimed at attracting more followers to the…
- 1 May 2013
Unesco, Nokia to Use Mobile Technology to Improve Education in Nigeria
Mobile phones can soon be used to help teachers improve English language literacy skills among primary school students in Nigeria. The project is being launched by UNESCO and Nokia, with support from…
- 11 Nov 2020
Heritage Bank Rewards local Content Language for October 1st “National Pledge” rendition
Heritage Bank Plc, Nigeria’s Most Innovative Banking Service provider has rewarded the winners of the rendition of the October 1st National Pledge in Pidgin English in celebration of Nigeria’s 60th…
- 20 Apr 2010
HP Steps up Fight against Fake Products
Technology firm Hewlett Packard (HP) plans to step up the battle against grey and fake HP products in the English West African region. While grey and fake computers is a global issue, Africa is an…
- 20 Apr 2010
HP Steps up Fight against Fake Products
Technology firm Hewlett Packard (HP) plans to step up the battle against grey and fake HP products in the English West African region. While grey and fake computers is a global issue, Africa is…
- 5 Jul 2019
MTN Sponsors First Ever Lagos State Private Schools Spelling Bee Competition
In a bid to satisfy the yearning for improved English grammar skills in the youth educational sector of Nigeria, MTN Nigeria through its tween and teen proposition, mPulse is sponsoring the first…
- 25 May 2009
MultiChoice, HiTV Open War Chests for EPL Rights
Brace up for war! An epic battle for broadcast rights to the English Premier League (EPL) looms between the two major pay-TV operators in Nigeria – MultiChoice Nigeria, operators of DStv, and…
- 11 Jan 2016
DStv Doles $438m to Extend Live EPL TV Rights to 2019
DStv’s SuperSport has agreed to pay US$438 million to show live English Premiership matches across Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa for 2016-19 seasons. SuperSport, the leading sports channel on the…
- 12 Aug 2021
Glo Partners Supersport on Live Transmission of 2021/22 EPL Matches
With the 2021/22 English Premier League season starting on Friday 13 August, 2021, football fans in Nigeria and Ghana have been assured of live broadcast of football matches on the Supersport…
- 8 Oct 2012
NBC Approves Shared EPL Broadcast Rights
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has approved the request of Brilla Broadcasting Services Limited to share acquired rights for the English Premier League (EPL) with other broadcasting…
- 11 Sept 2020
TStv Stages Comeback, to Broadcast Live EFL Matches
TStv Africa has announced acquiring the rights to broadcast all English Football League (EFL) Championship live matches to Nigerians in the 2020/21 season beginning this weekend. This is as part of…
- 3 Sept 2012
IT Counterfeiting is Economic Sabotage - Amuchinwa
Rita Amuchienwa is the channels programme and infrastructure manager (English Speaking Africa), Hewlett-Packard (HP). She has over 11 years of professional channel sales and development experience in…
- 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…
- 12 Apr 2010
DCC Networks Gets Cisco Silver Partnership
Cisco Channel certification unit has announced DCC Networks, the communications division of Computer Warehouse Group as Cisco Silver Certified Partner in West English Africa. In recognizing DCC…
- 9 Aug 2016
StarTimes/NTASports24 to View Live EPL Matches
StarTimes Nigeria, a digital TV company, has announced that Nigerians can now watch the world’s most exciting football league, the English Premier League on its platform in Nigeria. According to…
- 9 Sept 2013
Two-Way Radio offers Better Communication-Amuchienwa
Rita Amuchienwa is the senior territory manager, (English) West Africa for Motorola Solutions. Before Joining Motorola, Rita, A graduate of University of Calabar had worked with Hewlett-Packard (HP),…
- 13 Aug 2021
Glo Sponsors Live Telecast of 2021/22 EPL Matches
A major attraction for football lovers in the country and across the continent is the English Premier League. To this end, Nigeria’s largest indigenous telecommunications service provider, Globacom,…
- 16 Aug 2021
Glo Sponsors of Live Telecast of 2021/22 EPL Matches
A major attraction for football lovers in the country and across the continent is the English Premier League. To this end, Globacom, Nigeria’s largest indigenous telecommunications service provider,…
- 11 Aug 2017
Increasing Threats on Free Speech As Political Terrorism
“Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.” Lord Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, English Catholic historian, politician, and…
- 6 May 2015
Dangote to Buy Arsenal Football Club
Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man, has said that he is still interested in buying Arsenal. one of English premier league football teams. In an interview he did with Bloomberg w hile traveling in a…
- 30 Nov 2018
Broadcast Pirate Bags 6 months Jail Term in Yenagoa
The Federal High Court 2, Yenagoa has convicted Mr. Innocent Onojeta of a Five-count charge of Broadcast Piracy bordering on unauthorised broadcast of contents such as English Premier League (The…
- 13 Dec 2013
DataFlex Emerges HP Services Sales Partner of the Year
DataFlex has emerged as Hewlett Packard (HP) Services Sales partner of the Year for English Africa. The award was presented to DataFlex at a three day workshop/conference held in Dubai to recognize…
- 29 Jan 2016
The Economist, UK Newspaper Calls Jonathan “an Ineffectual Buffoon”
The Economist , an English-language weekly newspaper owned by the Economist Group, has described Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan “an ineffectual buffoon”. In an article titled “Nigeria’s…
- 22 Aug 2017
Increasing Threats on Free Speech as Political Terrorism
“Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.” Lord Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, English Catholic historian, politician, and…
- 12 Jun 2013
UK Court Asks Prest, Nigerian Oil Magnate to Settle Former Wife with $27m
Michael Prest, Nigerian oil tycoon has lost a legal battle with Yasmin, his estranged English wife and is to cough out some 17.5 million pounds ($27 million) in divorce settlement. The United…
- 8 May 2016
Naija FM Lagos Launches on GOtv
GOtv has introduced a new audio channel, Naija FM 102.7, on its platform. The Lagos-based Pidgin English audio channel, which launched 14 April on GOtv, is available on channel 301 to all…