{"id":57630,"date":"2018-06-28T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzznigeria.com\/?p=57630"},"modified":"2021-09-24T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:35:02","slug":"this-day-newspaper-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzznigeria.com\/this-day-newspaper-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Thisday Newspaper Nigeria: Get Politics, Business and Latest News Online"},"content":{"rendered":"
Thisday Newspaper Nigeria is a Nigerian national daily that was flagged off on 22 January 1995, with its head office in Apapa, Lagos State, Nigeria. The tabloid soon carved out a niche for itself in business and political reporting and for breaking big news stories, becoming one of the most circulated and read newspapers in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
In its first few years of publication, Thisday won the Newspaper of the Year Award for three consecutive years. In 1997, Thisday also became the first Nigerian newspaper to introduce full-colour printing. It now has printing plants in Lagos, Abuja, and in the Niger-Delta and has offices in all the 36 states in Nigeria, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and around the world.<\/p>\n
Owner:<\/strong> Nduka Obaigbena<\/p>\n Headquarters:<\/strong> Lagos<\/p>\n Year Founded:<\/strong> 1995<\/p>\n Publisher:<\/strong> Leaders & Company<\/p>\n Circulation:<\/strong> 100,000 Daily<\/p>\n Type of Newspaper:<\/strong> Daily Newspaper<\/p>\n Distribution:<\/strong> Online digital and hard copy<\/p>\n Thisday Newspaper Nigeria publisher Nduka Obaigbena was noted for his early investment in colour printing, giving the paper a distinctive edge among the few durable national newspapers that exist in Nigeria.<\/p>\n As of 2005, Thisday Newspaper already had about 100,000 copies in circulation and an annual turnover of some $35 million (US).<\/p>\n Thisday was at the forefront of the battle against the dictatorial military rule for which its reporters were invariably detained and harassed. The Chairman and Editor-in-Chief were detained in 1997 at the Department of Military Intelligence (DMI) for seven days under late Gen. Sani Abacha administration. The Chairman later went into self-exile.<\/p>\n In\u00a0October 2008,\u00a0Thisday launched ARISE, the global style and culture magazine. The debut issue was given away at Thisday Africa Rising concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall and was so well received that the second issue officially launched on newsstands in February 2009.<\/p>\n Thisday Newspaper Annual Awards for Excellence which takes place at\u00a0Thisday DOME in Abuja\u2019s Central Business District has attracted several world leaders and statesmen including former US Presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, former Mexican President, Vicente Fox and former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan. Thisday Anual Awards for Excellence has also hosted the former United Kingdom Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown along with former Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard.<\/p>\n Former US Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice, Henry Kissinger and General Colin Powell have also participated along with other international dignitaries including the former German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, the former Prime Minister of France, Dominique de Villepin, former Irish Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern and Harvard Professor Larry Summers, a former Economic Adviser to President Obama<\/a>, former World Bank President James Wolfensohn and Steve Forbes, the publisher of Forbes magazine.<\/p>\n Other keynote speakers have included prominent Washington insiders and analysts, like Andrew Card, William Kristol, Karl Rove, Paul Begala, Howard Dean, Donna Brazille, and Paula Zahn.<\/p>\n Today, Thisday Newspaper Nigeria remains one of the preferred newspaper among the business, political and diplomatic elite, and is easily the most recognisable and influential national media brand globally.<\/p>\n