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BBC Hausa was the first African-language service operated by the BBC and is one of the five African languages it broadcasts. The service was launched on 13 March 1957 at 09:30 GMT with a 15-minute programme by the BBC World Service presented by Aminu Abdullahi Malumfashi: a translated version was later read by Abubakar Tunau in the programme West Africa in the News.
Lefe is a Hausa wedding tradition that originated in the Hausa Land, Northern Nigeria (Arewa). The tradition asks the groom to purchase beautiful and expensive items as a grand gift for his bride. The groom's female relatives, including his aunts, take the gifts (kayan lefe) to the bride's house before the wedding. Upon arrival, the bride's ...
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 a bi-weekly TV and online investigations series broadcast in English, Hausa , Swahili and French.
The main user of the facility is the BBC World Service, it is also used by Voice of America. Around 250 hours of content is broadcast from the Ascension Island transmitting station every week. The majority of content is broadcast in English however content in French, Hausa and Bambara is also broadcast.
Newsday is BBC World Service's international hard news and current affairs programme. It acts as an afternoon programme for Asia, a breakfast broadcast in Europe and the UK and an overnight news programme for the Americas. It premiered on 23 July 2012. [2]
Two years after establishing BBC Abuja office in 2004, Tangaza was deployed to Nigeria and appointed the BBC's Abuja editor, tasked with planning and co-ordinating BBC's coverage from Nigeria. [4] She became acting Head of BBC Hausa responsible for overseeing the Service's daily output as well as coordinating activities both in London and Abuja .
He spent his early school years in Zaria before receiving his Bachelor of Science from University of London. Before entering Nigeria's politics he worked for BBC's Hausa service and gradually became one of the prominent voices in the north. [3]
The programme's slot originally dates back to 2004, as BBC Four News before evolving into The World and World News Today with Zeinab Badawi. [5] During this period it was the only programme produced by BBC News for UK audiences devoted principally to international news, simulcast by what was then BBC World (later BBC World News), the BBC News ...