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The Punch is a Nigerian daily newspaper founded on August 8, 1970. Punch Nigeria Limited is registered under the Companies Act of 1968 to publish newspapers, magazines and other periodicals. The newspaper's aim is said to be to "inform, educate and entertain Nigerians and the world at large." [2] [3] [4]
Olu Aboderin (3 September 1934 – 28 February 1984) was a Nigerian newspaper publisher who was a co-founder of The Punch of Nigeria and was the president of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria until his death in 1984. He was also a trained accountant who left the National Bank of Nigeria as its chief accountant.
Online newspapers have also been able to bypass government restrictions because content can be shared without the need for any physical infrastructure. The result has been a disruption of the traditional sources of news which have dominated the media industry. Recent online newspapers include Sahara Reporters, Ripples Nigeria, and Premium Times ...
Armed men attacked remote villages in northcentral Nigeria, killing at least a dozen villagers during a late-night raid, authorities said Tuesday. The local Punch newspaper cited witnesses as ...
Angela Olufunmilayo Emuwa is a Nigerian media executive and journalist. She is the chair of Punch Media Foundation, appointed by the Board of Punch Nigeria Limited in June 2018 after the death of her brother, Gbadebowale Wayne Aboderin, on May 30, 2018. [1]
He was a Daily Times of Nigeria editor and the first editor of the Sunday Punch before he established The Punch with his friend, the late Olu Aboderin, in 1971. [6] He later established Vanguard Newspaper in 1983 with three other Nigerian columnists. [7] Amuka was described as a "Gentleman of the Press" by President Muhammadu Buhari on his 80th ...
Gbadebowale Aboderin (1958 – 30 May 2018) was a Nigerian journalist, businessman and sports administrator, who was until his death the chairman of Punch Nigeria Limited, a publishing house founded by his father.
After Nigeria gained independence in the 1960s, while many publications were under government control, privately-owned newspapers such as the Nigerian Tribune, The Punch, Vanguard, and The Guardian continued to report on corruption in public and private sectors despite government censorship. [3]