The other languages are Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Gujarati, Igbo, Korean, Marathi, Pidgin, Punjabi, Telugu and Tigrinya.

BBC Yoruba was launched on 19 February 2018 by the BBC.This was part of the expansion to accommodate twelve new languages under the funding of United Kingdom Government through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) with an investment of 289 million pounds.

She remarked that: We have had BBC Hausa [mainly spoken in northern Nigeria] for decades and we've seen the impact it had with its audience...When we look at Nigeria we have a multicultural society and the BBC felt that it was very important to give all the a platform to communicate, a platform to interact[12]The BBC Yoruba was first aired with an interview with Wole Soyinka over the remarks made by former leaders Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida with Soyinka saying that he would never associate himself with Obasanjo's national coalition.

[6] The Editorial Lead of the project, Peter Okwoche explained that: One of the most exciting things for me is to tell our stories in our own language and I think there is something standard about that, something original about that and that's what these two services are going to be doing.

This is part of BBC's contribution to the growth of media best practice and professionalism in Nigeria, and the fight against ‘Fake News’ – and we’ll benefit from the young journalists’ insight into West Africa.