Soyombo's Libya migration interview opens at twenty-four times Arise's pace
The segment on the migration crisis came close to fifty thousand views within a day of going up on the Nigerian broadcaster's channel.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 61,313 views a day, 24 times a normal first day on this channel (2,567).
Migration Crisis: My Biggest Fear Was Being Abducted In Libya - Soyombo
"Migration Crisis: My Biggest Fear Was Being Abducted In Libya - Soyombo" puts its guest's own words in the title. Of everything the migration route holds, abduction in Libya is what Soyombo names as the thing he feared most. The segment appeared on Arise News, the international news channel of Nigeria's THISDAY group, and was nearing fifty thousand views by its second day.
That is about twenty-four times what a new Arise upload usually collects on its first day. The channel already draws heavy daily traffic across its catalog, but individual segments tend to open modestly and give way to the next headline. This one did not.
It is a first-person account on a subject Arise frames as a crisis, and so far it is outpacing the channel's usual segments by a distance.
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Where next?
- Channel
- Arise News
- Subscribers
- 1,250,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 542,710
- Video published
- September 27, 2026
- Video views so far
- 49,439 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 61,313
The numbers
The figures show how far this migration segment has pulled ahead of a typical Arise News first day.



