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- 20 Mar 2018
Google Launches News Initiative to Combat Fake News
Google is launching the Google News Initiative, to weed out fake news online and during breaking news situations, it said in a blog post on Tuesday. The Google app logo is seen on a smartphone in…
- 2 May 2025
History as TVC News Unveils Nigeria’s First AI-Powered News Anchors
TVC News has broken new ground in Nigeria’s media space with the launch of the country’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) news presenters. Rolled out in May 2025, the AI anchors will deliver news…
- 23 Feb 2022
Google Opens Portal for News Initiative Innovation Challenge, Seeks News Innovators in Middle East, Turkey & Africa
The Google News Initiative (GNI) has announced the opening of the third Innovation Challenge in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. The selected innovation projects will be eligible to receive up to…
- 22 Jun 2017
Global Cybersecurity Report Brings Good News, Bad News
Cybersecurity provider Trustwave has released its 2017 Trustwave Global Security Report, a look at 2016 trends in cybercrime, data breaches and security threats. The report offers good news in that…
- 7 Feb 2018
Opera News Clocks 1 million Downloads in Africa
Opera's news app, Opera News has reached 1 million downloads across Africa just four weeks after it launched in Jan 9, 2018. Opera News is also the preferred news app in Kenya on Google Play Store…
- 4 Feb 2013
ARISE NEWS Debuts with Solid African Footprint
ARISE NEWS, an international TV news operation will ‘soft launch’ today to join the likes of Aljazeera and BBC in providing 24-hour international TV news coverage. Operating from main news…
- 11 Aug 2026
Google Selects Six Nigerian News Creators for Emerging Voices Growth Lab
Google News Initiative (GNI) has selected six Nigerian independent news creators to participate in its Emerging News Voices Growth Lab for Sub-Saharan Africa. The selected Nigerian creators are…
- 8 Oct 2014
Google Releases News & Weather App for iOS
Google has ported over its news and weather app from Android to the iOS world. The app dubbed simply Google News & Weather displays the current weather and latest general news headlines on its…
- 10 Jan 2018
Opera Software Launches News App in Africa
Popular Norwegian browser development company Opera Software has launched a dedicated news app: Opera News. In what the company calls its "Africa first strategy", Opera News is available in 23…
- 11 Aug 2016
Glo Subscribers to Watch Breaking News on Their Phones
Globacom has partnered one of Africa’s biggest news leaders, Channels TV, to launch a unique video breaking news service to enable telecoms subscribers watch news on their phones as it breaks. The…
- 15 Apr 2020
Google Launches Global Journalism Emergency Relief Fund For Local News Publishers
The Google News Initiative has launched a Journalism Emergency Relief Fund to deliver urgent aid to thousands of small, medium and local news publishers globally. The funding is open to news…
- 24 May 2016
ABS Hold News Gathering Workshop
Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) has concluded its News Gathering & Dissemination Workshop, a3-day event themed 'News Gathering and Dissemination in a Digital World' for staff of the News and…
- 5 Jul 2013
TVC News Launches on UK’s BskyB
TVC News, the first genuine 24-hour pan-African TV news channel from the stables of the Continental Broadcasting Service Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria, has launched on the UK’s BskyB platform (EPG channel…
- 25 Jun 2018
Opera News Hits 10m Downloads in Africa
In six months since its launch in Africa, Opera News, a dedicated news app created by Norwegian browser development company, Opera Software, has reached 10 million downloads. According to AppAnnie, a…
- 8 Feb 2013
NBC Says Nduka's “Arise News’ is Illegal in Nigeria
National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) said that ‘Arise News’, a new 24 hours international television news operation launched on February 5 does not have a licence to operate within the country’s…
- 10 Aug 2020
Babalola, Former PM News Editor Dies at 57
Olanrewaju Rasak Babalola, former editor of PM News, is dead. He died on Monday at the age of 57 after protracted illness. Olanrewaju Rasak Babalola, former editor of PM News Babalola, died of cancer…
- 1 Feb 2017
Top Five Ways to Identify Fake News Online
With the advent of social media and the wider access to the internet in Nigeria and other countries of the world, the news is no longer what it is. Unlike in the past when we all depended on the…
- 31 Mar 2020
Facebook Invests $100m to Support News Industry During COVID-19 Crisis
The news industry is working under extraordinary conditions to keep people informed during the COVID-19 pandemic. At a time when journalism is needed more than ever, ad revenues are declining due to…
- 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…
- 11 Jul 2018
FG Unveils Campaign against Fake News
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, minister of Information and Culture, has launched a National Campaign Against Fake News, calling the phenomenon a time bomb that can detonate with deadly consequences if left…
- 28 Jul 2022
5 Nigerian Firms Among 34 Recipients of 3rd Google News Initiative Challenge
Google has announced 34 recipients of the third Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge drawn from Africa, Middle East, Israel & Turkey. The recipients, among them 21 journalists and…
- 9 Sept 2018
NBC Plans Review of Broadcasting Code to Check Fake News, Hate Speech
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) says it is reviewing the broadcasting code to address emerging challenges like hate speech and fake news. Dr. Igomu Onoja, its Zonal Director in charge of…
- 2 Apr 2019
Facebook Reveals How it Ranks Items in the News Feed
Facebook is lifting the lid on the algorithm that decides which posts appear in its news feed, as part of a drive to be more transparent and offer greater control to users. The feature “Why am I…
- 9 Jan 2019
Nigerian May Cause World War III with Fake News- Soyinka
Prof Wole Soyinka, noble laureate, said Wednesday, that World War III may be caused by Nigerian with fake news and called for efforts to curb it. Soyinka was speaking at a conference on fake…
- 30 Sept 2024
Good News Naija Podcast Set to Launch Today
HuntaClay Studio is pleased to announce the launch of the Good News Naija Podcast today, 1 October 2024, an initiative that represents a significant step in reshaping Nigeria’s global perception…
- 2 Jun 2008
Network News Rekindles Interest in NTA
Things are changing at Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) and that is simply because of the quality and content of it prime NTA Network News programme. Ironically, the same programme made station…
- 6 Feb 2012
Proshare Launches Mobile News Alert service
Proshare, a leading financial analyst and information services firm has announced the debut of its new Mobile News Alert service. The excellent delivery of this service is hinged on the technology…
- 20 Feb 2014
UBA GMD Tasks Media Practitioners on News Channels Paradigm Shift
Mr. Phillips Oduoza, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has tasked media practitioners in Nigeria on the need to embrace contemporary channels in news dissemination, stating that social media have…
- 17 Apr 2020
COVID-19: FG Launches Man-haunt for Purveyors of Fake News
Federal government, yesterday, said it has launched an investigation into the origin of some fake news reports which have been distracting it from the onslaught against the Novel Coronavirus. Mr Boss…
- 10 Mar 2015
Nigeria Leaders Licenced to Loot- Channel 4 News
Another damning report has exposed the depth of corruption in Nigeria, a country where the report said the leaders have been licensed to loot her treasuries. The report by Channel 4 News , UK based…