A News Aggregator App for Nigerian Newspapers

A news aggregator app collects headlines from many news publishers and shows them in one place, so you can scan several sources without visiting each website. Good aggregators name the source of every headline, link to the original report, and add structure on top: categories, a personal feed, or groups of reports about the same event.

The word covers a wide range. Some aggregators, such as Google News, draw on thousands of sources worldwide and choose what to show with an algorithm. Others focus on one country or subject. Feed readers let you pick every source yourself. What they share is that they point to journalism rather than producing it.

This website and its Android app aggregate 30 Nigerian publishers: the national dailies, digital-first newsrooms, and business, sport, technology and entertainment titles. Headlines come from the feeds each publisher makes available and are refreshed through the day.

When several papers report the same event, the website groups their reports on one story page by comparing the wording of their headlines, and it flags conflicting figures for readers to check at the source. Every headline names its publisher and links to the original article; the full text is never copied. The app brings the same publishers to your phone, sorted by category, with reports you can save for later.

A publisher's app shows one newsroom's work in full. An aggregator shows headlines from many newsrooms and sends you to each one to read. A feed reader, such as Feedly, is a do-it-yourself aggregator: you add the sources and it collects their updates.

For Nigerian news, the difference is practical. With publisher apps you need one app per paper. With a global aggregator, Nigerian newspapers share space with international outlets. A Nigerian news aggregator keeps to the Nigerian press, so the national dailies and the specialist titles are all in one feed.

Clear attribution comes first: you should always see which publisher wrote a headline and when. Next, a direct link to the original report, not a rewritten or copied version. After that, breadth of sources for the news you care about, headlines that stay current through the day, and some way of seeing several reports on the same story, so one account does not become the only account.

Be wary of apps that reproduce full articles without the publisher's permission. Beyond the copyright problem, copied text can miss the corrections and updates the newsroom adds later.

Google News is the broadest general-purpose aggregator: free on Android, iPhone and the web, with an edition for Nigeria and a Full Coverage view that gathers several reports on a story. Flipboard arranges stories into magazine-style collections by topic. Feedly suits readers who want to choose every source themselves, with a free plan and paid tiers. Ground News compares how outlets across the political spectrum cover the same story, with free and paid plans.

For Nigerian newspapers specifically, All Nigerian Newspapers keeps to the Nigerian press, with headlines from 30 publishers sorted by category on Android and grouped by story on the website. We publish it; the comparison of the best newspaper apps judges it alongside the others.

An aggregator that shows a headline and links to the article sends readers to the newspaper, where the publisher's own pages, advertising and subscriptions apply. That is the arrangement this site and its app follow. Aggregators that copy whole articles keep readers away from the newsroom that paid for the reporting, and that is a reason to avoid them.