This Day is a Nigerian national
newspaper. It is the flagship newspaper of Leaders & Company Ltd., and was first published on 22 January 1995. It has its headquarters in
Apapa,
Lagos State.[1] Founded by
Nduka Obaigbena, the chairman and editor-in-chief of the This Day Media Group and
Arise News.
This Day is a member of the
Belt and Road News Network.[2] Since 2014, it has maintained a close relationship with the Chinese embassy.[3]
This Day publisher
Nduka Obaigbena has previously been criticised for late and non-payment of the paper's staff and suppliers.[4]
Attacks
In 2001, several This Day editors survived a plane crash at
Maiduguri airport in North East Nigeria.[5][6]
In 2012, This Day's offices in the nation's capital
Abuja, and in
Kaduna were attacked in suicide car bombings thought to have been carried out by terrorist group
Boko Haram.[7][8]
^Batchelor, Kathryn; Zhang, Xiaoling, eds. (2017-06-26). "Newspaper coverage of China's engagement with Nigeria: Partner or predator?". China-Africa Relations: Building Images through Cultural Cooperation, Media Representation and Communication (1 ed.).
Routledge.
doi:
10.4324/9781315229096-10.
ISBN978-1-315-22909-6.