Category: Journalism
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Daily Times is the first substantive Nigerian daily newspaper, founded by a member of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce, Richard Braw, with a group of other European businessmen and Adeyemo Alakija. The first publication of this paper came out in June 1, 1926. Alakija co-founded the Daily Times newspaper in 1926, the tabloid which will…
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Olusegun Osoba, is the journalist and politician who twice became the governor of Ogun state. Osoba was born in 1941 and educated at Methodist Boys’ High School, Lagos between 1956 and 1960. Osoba obtained a diploma on journalism from the University of Lagos in 1965 and also did journalism courses at Indiana University Bloomington. In his…
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Iwe Irohin was the bilingual newspaper published by the Church Missionary Society in Abeokuta from 1859 to 1867. The principal contents of the paper were marriage announcements, church news, post office notices, advertisements, trade reports, cotton statistics and general news. During the years of its existence, it had remarkable impact on the local administration of…
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Lagos Weekly Record was a newspaper started in 1890 by John Payne Jackson, published in Lagos every Saturday with an annual subscription of eighteen shillings. The paper survived its early years in part due to personal donations and became in time, not only the most commercially successful among its contemporaries, but also an arsenal of…
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John Payne Jackson was one of the most colourful personalities in the Nigerian press, a journalist and philosopher, born on 25 March 1848 in Cape Palmas. He started the commercially successful Lagos Weekly Record in 1890 and was for the next twenty-five years one of the most outstanding journalists in the whole of West Africa,…
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Thomas Horatio Jackson was the co-founder of the Nigerian National Democratic Party with Herbert Macaulay and one of the most colourful personalities in the history of the Nigerian press. Born in 1879, Horatio was a son of John Payne Jackson, one of the most important Lagos journalists of his time, whose editorial chair at the Lagos Weekly…