LAS News: Nigeria, Africa and world news

LAS News is a news site at news.lasgconcept.com that covers Nigeria, Africa and the world. It is owned and operated by LAS G Concept Ltd and was founded by Lawal Ayo, its Editor and Founder. This page explains what is on the site, how stories are produced, how to follow it in the tools you already use, and where its limits are.

What you will find on LAS News

The site is organised into sections, and each section has its own page:

Top stories, the front page, which mixes the most important reports of the moment.
Africa and Nigeria, the largest section by far. Most of what LAS News publishes is connected to Nigeria: politics, security, courts, the economy, local government and everyday life.
World, Politics, Business, Sport, Entertainment, Games, Tech, Science and Health.
Elections, a hub that collects coverage of Nigerian and international elections. The site states that it publishes results only when they come from official electoral bodies or credible published reporting, and it links the source.
Scores, a football page with live scores and fixtures for the Premier League, La Liga, the Champions League and the Nigeria Premier Football League.
Markets, a page with crypto prices in US dollars and naira and naira exchange rates, next to business news.
Topics and Latest, which list stories by subject and in strict newest-first order, so you can browse without relying on an algorithm.
Eyewitness, where readers can submit their own first-hand reports. These are labelled unverified and are moderated against published rules.

How a LAS News story is made

Most stories on LAS News carry the byline "LAS News Desk". The desk byline means the story was compiled from reporting by other named news organisations and official sources, and drafted with the help of an AI language model. Every such story lists its sources, with links, in a "Sources" box under the text, so a reader can go straight to the original reporting.

The pipeline works in steps. It reads public RSS feeds from publishers, groups reports about the same event into one story, asks the AI model to write a new article that uses only facts contained in the source material, and then runs automated checks. Drafts are rejected if they reuse long runs of the source wording or contain direct quotations. The site is rebuilt and published roughly every 30 minutes. We have written about each step in a separate article, How LAS News gathers and rewrites news, and a reader's checklist in How to read automated news critically.

A few stories are not produced this way. Stories under the byline of Lawal Ayo are original reports based on his own reporting or on eyewitness material sent to LAS News. Eyewitness posts come from readers and are not written by LAS News at all.

What LAS News deliberately does not do

It does not copy other publishers' photographs. Story images are either freely licensed photos (CC0, Public Domain, CC BY or CC BY-SA only) that are downloaded and hosted by LAS News with the author, licence and source link shown, or designed LAS News graphics when no genuinely related photo exists.
It does not attach a photo of a person who is not part of the story. For example, a photo of a former president is not used on a story about the current government.
It does not let advertising decide coverage. The site is supported by advertising, and advertisers have no say over what is covered.
It does not claim to replace reporters on the ground. Automation summarises reporting that already exists. It cannot attend a court hearing or a rally.

Corrections and quality control

Errors reported to us are corrected promptly: use the contact form on LAS News and include the link to the story. Corrections are listed on the corrections page. Stories that are very short are not offered to search engines: LAS News marks stories under 300 words as "noindex", shows no ads on them and leaves them out of its sitemap, so only fuller stories are put forward for search results. The same principle applies to thin topic pages.

Following LAS News your way

You do not have to open the website to follow it. LAS News publishes an RSS feed, an Atom feed and a feed formatted for Google News, and there is a LAS News channel on Telegram (t.me/lasnewsng). Our guide, How to follow Nigerian news with RSS and LAS News feeds, shows how to set that up in a feed reader step by step.

Who is behind it

LAS News is a product of LAS G Concept Ltd, a private company registered in Nigeria (RC 1945448) with its registered office in Benin City, Edo State. Read the full editorial standards we apply across our sites, the disclaimer for our automated content, and the about page for company details. If you spot a mistake in a story, write to us through the contact page.

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