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Reuben Adeleye Abati (born 7 November 1965) is a Nigerian journalist, politician, TV presenter and newspaper columnist. He was the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)'s deputy governor candidate in Ogun State in the 2019 Gubernatorial election. [1]
The West Africa United Business Weekly, believed to be the first Chinese-language newspaper in west Africa, was established in 2005. [22] China's official People's Daily also sought to form a partnership with Nigerian national newspaper Thisday in 2006. [23]
Osime's career at THISDAY began with her as a project manager, then she became a writer and style editor in 2003, a position she held till April 2022.She also contributed to the Sunday publication of the newspaper with a column known as Truth by Ruth, before becoming the editor of THISDAY Style in 2005, when the magazine was launched. [5]
She was the pioneer managing director of Arise TV, a Nigerian news outlet. [1] She was one of the directors of Thisday Newspaper. She is also an editor at THISDAY newspaper. [2] [3] She is the second woman in Nigerian journalism’s history to be appointed editor of a national newspaper, the first being Doyin Abiola. [4]
On 12 May 2020, ThisDay newspaper carried a report on the gross abuse and violation of human rights committed by the Nigerian Police Force during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. The newspaper report accused the Nigerian Police Force of committing more extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations during the period of the lockdown ...
The Nigerian Tribune is an English-language newspaper published in Ibadan, Nigeria. It was established in 1949 by Obafemi Awolowo and is the oldest running private Nigerian newspaper. [1] During the colonial era, the newspaper served as the mouthpiece for Awolowo's populist welfare programs.
The Miss World riots were a series of religiously motivated riots in the Nigerian city of Kaduna in November 2002, resulting in the deaths of more than 200 people. The Miss World beauty pageant, which was controversial in Nigeria, was relocated to London after bloody clashes between Muslims and Christians, caused by what some Muslims deemed to be a "blasphemous" article in the Christian ...
Olaniyonu joined THISDAY newspaper in June 1997 as the Political Editor of the highly influential national newspaper and contributed many reports, analyses and commentaries on political issues, particularly during the prolonged transition Programme that led to the present democracy in Nigeria.