Daily Times Nigeria to mark 100 years, to recognize Amuka, Osoba, Ugochukwu

By Adesina Wahab & Juliet Umeh

Daily Times Nigeria, DTN, is acceptable to people its 100 years of beingness with a bid of activities, including the unveiling of a 700-page publication detailing assorted important events and developments successful Nigeria.

Briefing newsmen astatine the secretariat of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN, Ikeja, Lagos, yesterday, the Publisher, Mr Fidelis Anosike, said the events to people the juncture would see giving peculiar designation to immoderate past editors and writers successful the insubstantial including the Publisher of Vanguard Newspaper, Mr Sam Amuka-Pemu, erstwhile Ogun State Governor, Aremo Olusegun Osoba and Chief Onyema Ugochukwu.

The insubstantial started publishing successful June 1926.

Anosike besides said arsenic portion of the celebration, the organisation would collaborate with 100 firm bodies for the ceremonies.

He lauded the Nigerian Diaspora Commission for been of large assistance and supportive of the program by the organisation to people its anniversary.

“Daily Times is much than a brand. And it is inactive the biggest successful the manufacture successful Nigeria. If you spell to immoderate media location successful Nigeria today, you volition spot astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic who has immoderate transportation oregon nexus with Daily Times. It is simply a media company, it is much than a newspaper. It has produced galore notable personalities successful the media industry. People similar the precocious Babatunde Jose built connected instauration that others similar Ernest Ikoli laid.

“When Folio Communication took implicit the absorption of the spot successful August 2014, we suffered a batch of harassment and persecution. The marketplace has besides changed. We had to spell backmost to the drafting committee to spot however the Daily Times of contiguous volition lend to nationalist development. The insubstantial was successful the forefront of run for independency for Nigeria.

“The archetypal 10 years aft we acquired it was tough, we had nary godfather and we were harassed ,but we are inactive lasting and we person ever said that radical should springiness america the accidental to win oregon fail,” helium said.

Anosike added that aft the archetypal Century of the paper, his squad would acceptable the template of what Century Two would be.

“We don’t privation to beryllium a flash successful the pan. We privation to bash what we request to bash to enactment the Nigeria of our dream. It is unfortunate that radical emotion Nigerians, but they bash not emotion Nigeria. Our solemnisation is for the media and we are committed to federation gathering which we cognize is simply a marathon not a sprint,” helium added.

He besides disclosed that the archives of Daily Times, which was the National Archives earlier independence, would beryllium formally launched connected the organisation’s platform.

The station Daily Times Nigeria to people 100 years, to admit Amuka, Osoba, Ugochukwu appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.