SIC Notícias (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsik nuˈtisiɐʃ]) is the cable news channel of the Portuguese television network SIC (Sociedade Independente de Comunicação) and the second thematic channel of the station. It replaced CNL (Canal de Notícias de Lisboa), a Lisbon region independent cable news channel owned by TV Cabo, on January 8, 2001. Since the end of 2003, SIC Notícias is also available in Angola and Mozambique via satellite or cable.

The channel is especially developed for cable, and its programming is almost totally constituted by information and news programs. SIC notícias rates as Portugal's top cable channels. As a response, the public television network RTP bought NTV, the Northern Portugal's news channel and transformed it into RTPN in 2004, directly competing with SIC Notícias.

Beside the news blocks, it also offers special editions and thematic programs on economy, health, interviews, show business, automobile industry, publicity, fashion, society and sports.

The channels' primetime news program, Jornal das Nove, airing from 9-10 p.m., is hosted by Mário Crespo. Other news programs are: Jornal das Duas (2-3 p.m.), Jornal das 7 (7-8 p.m.), Edição da Manhã (7-10 a.m.), Edição do Meio-Dia (10 a.m.). Sport news is updated at Jornal de Desporto (12:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.). Viewers are invited to participate in the day's top story or current nationwide issues at the daily's morning and afternoon editions of Opinião Pública. SIC Notícias has prominent opinion making program such as Quadratura do Círculo and Expresso da Meia-Noite. International affairs are explored in the program Sociedade das Nações, hosted by Martim Cabral and Nuno Rogeiro. Celebrity news is updated daily at Caras Notícias.

Abel Apalanga Chivukuvuku (born November 11, 1957, in Luvemba, Huambo Province) served as the Chief of the UNITA Parliament in Angola from October 1998 to September 2000. He is a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Angola, beginning in 2004.

Margarida Chivukuvuku, wife of Pedro Chivukuvuku, gave birth to Abel in Luvemba, Angola in 1957. His parents enrolled him in Dondi Mission, Bela Vista elementary school and Huambo National Secondary School. He joined UNITA in 1974 and its armed wing, the FALA, in 1976. Chivukuvuku became UNITA's representative to the rest of Africa in 1979. He later served as Angola's representative to Portugal and the UK. He returned to Angola and ran in the 1992 parliamentary elections in 1992. He sustained wounds in the ensuing Halloween Massacre. MPLA police arrested him, holding him until 1997. He did not take sides in UNITA's factional disputes in the 1990s and his fellow parliamentarians elected him Chief of UNITA's Parliament in October 1998. He served until September 2000.

Bruno Segadas Vianna Carvalho (born 26 March 1974 in Rio de Janeiro) is a former Brazilian football player.

He was on trial at Livingston in summer 2003. But he failed to obtain a work permit, he moved to Sweden for Djurgårdens IF.

In June 2007, he signed a one year contract with América (RJ).

He is a U-20 internationals and played in 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship.

António Luís dos Santos da Costa, GCIH (born July 17, 1961 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, former Minister and current Mayor of Lisbon.

He was a Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party (PES), heading the list after the dramatic death of top candidate António de Sousa Franco. On July 20, 2004 he was elected as one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament. He resigned as an MEP on 11 March 2005 to become Minister of State and Administration in the government of José Sócrates.

António Costa resigned to all government offices in May 2007 to become his party's candidate to the municipality of Lisbon. He was elected as Lisbon's mayor on July 15, 2007.

António Costa is of partial Goan descent through his father, the writer Orlando da Costa. His mother was the writer Maria Antónia Palla. His brother by his father's second marriage is the journalist Ricardo Costa.

Married in 1987 to Fernanda Maria Gonçalves Tadeu, the couple has a son and a daughter.

José Gomes Ferreira, GOSE, GOL (July 9, 1900 – 1985) was a Portuguese poet and fiction writer with a vast work of varied influences. Gomes Ferreira was also a political activist that participated in the resistance against the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar, becoming later a member of the Portuguese Communist Party. In the late 1970s he occupied the presidency of the Portuguese Writers Association.

A native of Porto, Ferreira graduated in law in 1924 and became a consul in Norway in the late 1920s. Soon after, became a journalist and published his works on several progressive magazines. After the rising of the right-wing dictatorship led by Salazar, Ferreira acquainted himself with the democratic resistance movements. During the later years of the regime, he continued publishing and saw his poetic work recognized by his peers. After the democratic Carnation Revolution, Ferreira joined the Communist Party and continued his work until the mid 1980s.

His artistic work was representative of his concern with social problems, a mirror of his leftwing ideology. His poetry had varied influences, ranging from neorealism to surrealism, in a dialectic relation between his own ego and the need to share other people suffering.