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Lagos, Nigeria. Website. www .thesun .ng. The Sun is a Nigerian daily print newspaper founded and published in KiriKiri Industrial Layout, Lagos, Nigeria. [ 1] As of 2011, The Sun had a daily print run of 130,000 copies, and 135,000 for weekend titles, with an average of 80% sales. This made The Sun the highest-selling newspaper in Nigeria.
The list includes print and online newspapers currently published in Nigeria that have national circulation or that are major local newspapers. [8] Newspaper. Location. First issues. Publisher. Naija News. Lagos. 2016.
The Punch was founded by James Aboderin, an accountant, and Sam Amuka, a columnist and editor at the Daily Times of Nigeria. Amuka became the first editor of the Sunday Punch. In November 1976, a few years after the first print of its Sunday edition, the duo started printing their trademark daily newspaper.
The Nigerian Tribune is an English-language newspaper published in Ibadan, Nigeria. 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. It also played an important role in defending the interests ...
News International phone hacking scandal. Rupert Murdoch in 2007. Employees of the now-defunct newspaper News of the World engaged in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories. Investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 showed that the paper's phone hacking activities were targeted at celebrities ...
A protest in Kirkby shortly after The Sun ' s "The Truth" headline featured women burning copies of the tabloid. [12] Widespread boycotting of The Sun, alongside the News of the World, soon followed. [19] The newspaper is widely known as The Scum within Liverpool. [13]
History. Today, with the American newspaper USA Today as an inspiration, launched on Tuesday 4 March 1986, with the front-page headline, "Second Spy Inside GCHQ". At 18p (equivalent to 67p in 2023), it was a middle-market tabloid, a rival to the long-established Daily Mail and Daily Express. It pioneered computer photo-typesetting and full ...
Headquarters. Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria. Website. businessday .ng. Business Day, established in 2001, is a daily business newspaper based in Lagos, Nigeria. [ 1] It is the only Nigerian newspaper with a bureau in Accra, Ghana. [ 2][citation needed]. It has both daily and Sunday titles.