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14 July 1959. Ibadan, Western Region, Nigeria. Nationality. Nigerian Place of Birth: Igbanke in Edo State. Organization (s) Leaders and Company Limited, Delta State. Known for. Publisher, ThisDay Newspaper, Chairman, Arise News Channel. Nduka Obaigbena CON, Duke of Owa Kingdom is the founding Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of the THISDAY Media ...
Nationality. Nigerian. Education. Obafemi Awolowo University. University of Lagos. Harvard University. Occupation. Journalist. Olusegun Adeniyi (born 6 November 1965) is a Nigerian journalist, current chair of the editorial board of ThisDay newspapers and a former presidential spokesman to the late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.
This Day is a Nigerian national newspaper. It is the flagship newspaper of Leaders & Company Ltd., and was first published on 22 January 1995. It has its headquarters in Apapa, Lagos State. [1] Founded by Nduka Obaigbena, the chairman and editor-in-chief of the This Day Media Group and Arise News. This Day is a member of the Belt and Road News ...
In 2007, he was appointed editor of This Day, regarded as Nigeria’s most influential newspaper. [18] He edited the paper for five years, before he resigned in 2012. He has taken leadership courses at Yale University and Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Young Global Leader of World Economic Forum .
e. Newspapers published in Nigeria have a strong tradition of the principle of "publish and be damned" that dates back to the colonial era when founding fathers of the Nigerian press such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ernest Ikoli, Obafemi Awolowo and Lateef Jakande used their papers to fight for independence. [1][2] Until the 1990s, most publications ...
Lankadeepa (Sinhala: ලංකාදීප) is a daily Sri Lankan Sinhala language newspaper which is owned by Wijeya Newspapers. They were established in 1991. [1] The chairman of the organisation is Ranjith Wijewardene, the son of D. R. Wijewardena. [2] The newspaper's coverage includes politics, sports, entertainment and military.
The Guardian was established in 1983 by Alex Ibru, an entrepreneur, and Stanley Macebuh, a top journalist with the Daily Times newspapers, with its model copied from The Guardian in the UK. The Guardian was a pioneer in introducing high-quality journalism to Nigeria with thoughtful editorial content. [ 2 ]
Languages of Nigeria. There are over 525 native languages spoken in Nigeria. [1][2][3] The official language and most widely spoken lingua franca is English, [4][5] which was the language of Colonial Nigeria. Nigerian Pidgin – an English-based creole – is spoken by over 60 million people. [5][6]