{"id":465494,"date":"2018-02-19T09:40:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T09:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/19\/bbc-starts-igbo-and-yoruba-services-in-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T09:40:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T09:40:45","slug":"bbc-starts-igbo-and-yoruba-services-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/19\/bbc-starts-igbo-and-yoruba-services-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC starts Igbo and Yoruba services in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-285357\">\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BBC-YUROBA.jpg\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-top bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1 bsac-hide-on-phone bsac-hide-on-tablet-portrait bsac-hide-on-tablet-landscape bsac-hide-on-desktop\">\n<div id=\"bsac-277964-1298675489\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-image  bsac-hide-on-desktop bsac-hide-on-tablet-portrait bsac-hide-on-tablet-landscape bsac-hide-on-phone\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\" data-adid=\"277964\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bsac-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/top-banner-web-renault.jpg\" alt=\"Renault\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two new language services have been launched by the BBC World Service for Igbo and Yoruba speakers in Nigeria and West and Central Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Their digital content is mainly aimed at audiences who use mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>Igbo is primarily spoken in south-east Nigeria and Yoruba in the south-west, as well as in Benin and Togo.<\/p>\n<p>The new services are part of the World Service\u2019s biggest expansion since the 1940s, following a government-funding boost announced in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 12 services are being launched by the BBC in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Igbo \u2013 seven things<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Best-known Igbo speaker was Chinua Achebe, regarded as the founding father of African literature<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Estimated to have more than 30 million speakers, mainly in south-eastern Nigeria<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">A word with the same spelling can have different meanings, for example \u201cakwa\u201d is bed, egg, cloth or burial rights \u2013 depending on its tone<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">An Igbo secessionist movement sparked a brutal civil war in 1967<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">The caffeine-rich kola nut is all important in Igbo culture \u2013 always offered to welcome guests<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">A famous proverb: \u201cOnye wetara \u1ecdj\u1ecb, wetara nd\u1ee5\u201d meaning: \u201cHe who brings kola, brings life\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-bottom bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1\">\n<div id=\"bsac-268363-1285401364\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-image \" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\" data-adid=\"268363\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bsac-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Telesol-ad.jpg\" alt=\"Homepage Header Ad\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); 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