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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.
The presenter of Focus on Africa, the BBC's flagship and first-ever dedicated daily TV news programme in English for African audiences, broadcast on BBC World News, has established himself as one of the emerging African faces of global broadcasting. As a lead presenter for BBC World, Dumor has considerable influence on how the continent is ...
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced ...
2008 - 2016, replaced by Prva World BBC World News United Kingdom: English 1995 - 2023, merger with BBC News: Bloomberg TV Canada Canada: English 2015 - 2017, replaced by BNN Bloomberg: Bloomberg TV Indonesia Indonesia: Indonesian 2013 - 2015 Bloomberg TV Philippines Philippines: English 2015 - 2018, replaced by One News: BTVI India: English ...
BBC Africa Eye is an investigative branch of the BBC World Service. It has a network of local and investigative journalists and researchers working across Africa and produces an bi-weekly TV and online investigations series broadcast in English, Hausa, Swahili and French. The series focuses on topics that are of interest and concern to young ...
Employer (s) BBC World News, BBC Africa, BBC Sport. Mimi Fawaz is a Nigerian-Lebanese sports journalist, show host and presenter who currently works as a sports presenter on Focus on Africa, a BBC news programme broadcast on BBC World News alongside BBC Africa and BBC Sports. She has worked for CNN, ESPN and ITV Television networks.
Nationality. Nigerian. Employer. BBC. Known for. Journalism. Bilkisu Labaran is a Nigerian journalist, editor and head of Africa News & Current affairs at BBC. [2] [3] She played a vital role in the establiment of BBC pidgin [4] [5] and is the first Nigerian BBC editor. She currently works as an executive at BBC Africa Eye documentaries [6]
Focus on Africa is a BBC news programme broadcast on the international feed of the BBC News channel, and on local partner channels of the BBC in African countries. [ 1] The programme was presented by Komla Dumor each weekday from its inception until his sudden death, aged 41, in January 2014. [ 2] The programme includes news, sport and business ...