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Media Trust is a privately held Nigerian newspaper publishing company based in Abuja that publishes the English-language Daily Trust, Weekly Trust, Sunday Trust and the Hausa-language Aminiya newspapers, as well as a new pan-African magazine, Kilimanjaro. It is one of the leading media companies in Nigeria. [1]
Until the 1990s, most publications were government-owned, but private papers such as the Daily Trust, Next, Nigerian Tribune, The Punch, Vanguard and the Guardian continued to expose public and private scandals despite government attempts at suppression. [2]
Hamza Idris (born 27 July 1972) is a journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of Nigeria's Daily Trust newspaper, [1] [2] [3] one of the leading newspapers in Nigeria. He oversees the three titles on its stable: Daily Trust, Daily Trust Saturday and Daily Trust on Sunday.
[7] [8] At Daily Trust, he was appointed Acting Editor (Saturday) in 2012, before he was redeployed to the Daily as Deputy Editor. In 2014 [9] before he was confirmed as the editor in 2016. [10] [11] [12] As the editor, he won Editor of the Year in 2016 [13] [14] and Daily Trust won Newspaper of the year award. [15] [16]
Farooq Adamu Kperogi (born 1973), is a Nigerian-American professor, [2] author, media scholar, newspaper columnist, blogger and activist.He was a reporter and news editor at many Nigerian newspapers including the Daily Trust, Daily Triumph and the now defunct New Nigerian.
He is a member of Daily Trust's Editorial Board, and also writes a weekly column called Column No. 6 for the newspaper. Baba Aminu was a writer on the BBC-produced Wetin Dey, the number one TV show in Nigeria while it ran for two seasons.
The Editor-in-Chief is Jaafar Jaafar [17] who is an alumnus of Bayero University, Kano and London School of Public Relations. Jaafar Started his career with Daily Trust between 2007 and 2011, left the newsroom after his appointment as Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations to Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso between 2011 and 2015.
Blueprint is a Nigerian daily newspaper based in Abuja.The newspaper started as a weekly publication in May 2011, then switched to a daily paper in September 2011. The paper has two editions - the print edition published daily and the online edition which updates as events unfold.