BBC and Channels Television to co-produce weekly show in Nigeria

Nigeria’s Channels Television and the BBC are joining forces on a new English language current affairs programme due to launch in 2018. The live studio-based show will focus on the stories behind the news, with original storytelling and audience interaction via social media and in the studio in Lagos.

Published: 15 January 2018
It is a pleasure to start this co-production with Channels Television. We look forward to a great partnership
— Solomon Mugera, Regional editor, BBC Africa

Made by the BBC and Channels Television in Nigeria, this programme will be a unique weekly half hour for viewers in Nigeria and diaspora audiences around the world.

With in-depth reporting and analysis, hard-hitting interviews and discussions around the issues that matter to Nigerians, the programme will also feature stories covered by a selection of the BBC's African services.

Produced at Channels Television’s new studios in Lagos, the programme will be created to the same high standards of journalism and production that audiences around the world expect.

Channels Television is the leading independent television service in Nigeria. It has a longstanding relationship with the BBC and has been named Station Of The Year 12 times by Nigeria’s Media Merit Award Trust.

Solomon Mugera, Regional editor for BBC Africa, says: “It is a pleasure to start this co-production with Channels Television. We look forward to a great partnership."

Kingsley Uranta, Assistant General Manager Operation of Channels Television, says: ”We are thrilled to be working with the BBC. Both organisations enjoy a great partnership for public good, and this latest project is yet another worthy example.”

The new co-production will air live on Channels Television in Nigeria and will also be available on Channels24 in the UK via Freesat and Sky.

Notes to Editors

  • BBC World Service’s BBC Africa hub brings together the production of multilingual content about the continent on radio, on TV and online on bbcafrica.com. As it delivers content in Afaan Oromo, Amharic, English, French, Hausa, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Pidgin, Somali, Tigrinya, and Kiswahili, BBC Africa ensures a pan-African approach to the output, offering its audiences opportunities to join the global conversation. BBC Africa has teams based in London and across much of sub-Saharan Africa, and has well established production centres in various cities. There will be new African languages soon being launched by BBC Africa - Igbo and Yoruba.
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  • The BBC World Service reaches a global audience of 269 million weekly, on radio, TV, and digital.

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