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The posting benchmark

News brands in Nigeria on Facebook

Our count of public Facebook posts from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026 holds five news brands in Nigeria. Here they are side by side, each beside the median in Nigeria, then the median news brand's day, hours and formats.

Public Facebook posts, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Dataset peers-2026-09-v4.

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Every news brand, A to Z

At a glance

Median posts a day
39.9
Median engagement a day
96,895
Median engagement per post
100
Total engagement, 12 weeks to 20 September 2026
27.9 million

Engagement is reactions, comments and shares. Each median is across the news brands in Nigeria; the total adds up all of their posts.

Brand by brand

Every news brand in Nigeria, side by side

Each dot is one news brand in Nigeria, placed by the measure you choose, with the median and middle half across them. 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026.

Our count

Place the dots by

Posts a day on each news brand's Facebook Page.

  • Median in Nigeria: 39.9 a day
  • Middle half in Nigeria: 16.2 to 205

Point at a dot, or tab to the dots and use the arrow keys (they move A to Z), to see which news brand it is. Press Enter to open its page. The table below lists every one, A to Z.

5 news brands in Nigeria, placed by posts a day, with the median and middle half across them. The scale is logarithmic, so 1 to 10 takes the same width as 10 to 100. Public Facebook posts, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Dataset peers-2026-09-v4.

Posts each day, news brand by news brand

Each faint line is one news brand. Point at a dot above, or pick one here, to pick out its line.

  • Median in Nigeria
  • Middle half in Nigeria
  • Each news brand

Days above 300 posts are cut off at the edge of the chart.

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Median posts each day across news brands in Nigeria, with the middle half of them shaded, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026.
DayMedian in NigeriaMiddle half in Nigeria
Monday 29 June4720 to 201
Tuesday 30 June5219 to 206
Wednesday 1 July4214 to 196
Thursday 2 July4711 to 183
Friday 3 July437 to 202
Saturday 4 July166 to 108
Sunday 5 July2410 to 152
Monday 6 July4712 to 169
Tuesday 7 July5414 to 217
Wednesday 8 July5617 to 230
Thursday 9 July5414 to 241
Friday 10 July4416 to 195
Saturday 11 July199 to 120
Sunday 12 July1813 to 121
Monday 13 July5015 to 232
Tuesday 14 July4013 to 226
Wednesday 15 July5119 to 238
Thursday 16 July5316 to 226
Friday 17 July5615 to 226
Saturday 18 July2115 to 116
Sunday 19 July1311 to 148
Monday 20 July5612 to 194
Tuesday 21 July5912 to 247
Wednesday 22 July5311 to 246
Thursday 23 July398 to 249
Friday 24 July518 to 224
Saturday 25 July2014 to 133
Sunday 26 July3628 to 131
Monday 27 July4417 to 247
Tuesday 28 July3818 to 210
Wednesday 29 July5113 to 237
Thursday 30 July4516 to 233
Friday 31 July4117 to 226
Saturday 1 August2620 to 120
Sunday 2 August1614 to 150
Monday 3 August3817 to 183
Tuesday 4 August5411 to 239
Wednesday 5 August5517 to 253
Thursday 6 August4717 to 219
Friday 7 August4216 to 236
Saturday 8 August2114 to 126
Sunday 9 August2718 to 130
Monday 10 August4218 to 244
Tuesday 11 August4318 to 260
Wednesday 12 August5516 to 265
Thursday 13 August4717 to 223
Friday 14 August4315 to 229
Saturday 15 August4119 to 164
Sunday 16 August2621 to 151
Monday 17 August4620 to 215
Tuesday 18 August5218 to 243
Wednesday 19 August5716 to 237
Thursday 20 August5617 to 172
Friday 21 August3815 to 221
Saturday 22 August3112 to 117
Sunday 23 August2216 to 143
Monday 24 August5518 to 248
Tuesday 25 August4120 to 172
Wednesday 26 August5721 to 224
Thursday 27 August4423 to 223
Friday 28 August428 to 216
Saturday 29 August2616 to 124
Sunday 30 August1910 to 142
Monday 31 August5021 to 208
Tuesday 1 September4518 to 236
Wednesday 2 September5121 to 225
Thursday 3 September4415 to 228
Friday 4 September3318 to 227
Saturday 5 September1918 to 148
Sunday 6 September2116 to 159
Monday 7 September5017 to 196
Tuesday 8 September5215 to 241
Wednesday 9 September4920 to 231
Thursday 10 September4917 to 224
Friday 11 September3414 to 219
Saturday 12 September2115 to 135
Sunday 13 September2121 to 178
Monday 14 September4020 to 183
Tuesday 15 September5014 to 256
Wednesday 16 September4017 to 213
Thursday 17 September5217 to 249
Friday 18 September4315 to 227
Saturday 19 September1715 to 157
Sunday 20 September2119 to 145

The median news brand

The median news brand in Nigeria

Medians across the five news brands we compared in Nigeria, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Days are UTC days; hours and weekdays are each news brand's local time.

Share of posts by local hour

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Median share of posts in each local hour across news brands in Nigeria.
Local hourMedian share
00:001.1%
01:000.4%
02:000.3%
03:000%
04:000%
05:000%
06:001.2%
07:003.7%
08:005.3%
09:007.7%
10:007.4%
11:007.6%
12:006.8%
13:006.9%
14:007.4%
15:008.2%
16:006.8%
17:006%
18:006%
19:004.8%
20:004.1%
21:003.7%
22:002.8%
23:001.8%

Posts a day by weekday

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Median posts a day on each local weekday across news brands in Nigeria.
WeekdayMedian posts a day
Monday47.1
Tuesday48.3
Wednesday51.5
Thursday48.1
Friday42.5
Saturday21.1
Sunday21

What they posted

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Median share of each format among posts by news brands in Nigeria.
FormatMedian in Nigeria
Photo93%
Video or reel1%
Album5%
Link1%
Text only0%
Other0%

The news brands

Every news brand in Nigeria

Each news brand's own figures. Sort by any column, and choose which columns to show. Being counted says nothing about which tools a newsroom uses.

Columns
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News brands in Nigeria, A to Z: their figures, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Public Facebook posts, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Dataset peers-2026-09-v4.

BusinessDay (Nigeria)100k to 1m39.93,0711544098%22%44%
Legit.ng1m to 10m205122,92010013,15970%21.3%60%
Pulse Nigeria1m to 10m16.296,8952,6145,240over 99%36%106%
Punch1m to 10m219108,99010421,51697%17%69%
Sports Brief Nigeria100k to 1m2.773514over 99%18%90%

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