After BBC launched its BBC Pidgin, the first African digital service that aims to provide news, current affairs and analysis of Nigeria, West and Central Africa, as part of the biggest expansion of its World Service since the 1940s.

“Pidgin is a real language of opportunity across the region, spoken by millions across the West and Central African region. It is spoken by 75 million people in Nigeria alone. By the time you to Ghana, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Liberia, you are speaking to millions and millions across this region.”

The long awaited and anticipated BBC Yoruba & igbo News website has launched and started the publication of Nigerian, African and Global News in the Yoruba language to service the needs of more than 45 Million Yorubas in West Africa, as well as the Yoruba diaspora to have news in their Languages.

Ìròyìn Èkúnréré L'éde Yorùbá ti dé!

https://www.bbc.com/yoruba

https://www.bbc.com/igbo