Daily Times Nigeria To Mark 100 Years With Book Launch

The steadfast of Daily Times and treasurer of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Mr Fidelis Anosike, is unveiling a landmark 700-page book, ‘The Nigeria Book’ to people the centenary solemnisation of the oldest media constitution successful the country.

The commemorative lawsuit scheduled for June 2026 volition officially people 100 years since the founding of Daily Times successful 1926, a level that has documented and influenced Nigeria’s travel from colonialism to independency and beyond.

Speaking with newsmen successful Lagos, Anosike described the forthcoming publication arsenic a nationalist archive and intelligence plus that seeks to redefine Nigeria’s planetary communicative and rekindle nationalist pridefulness by tracing its cultural, governmental and economical travel done time.

Anosike said the events to people the juncture would see giving peculiar designation to immoderate past editors and writers successful the insubstantial including the steadfast of Vanguard Newspaper, Mr Sam Amuka-Pemu; erstwhile Ogun State governor, Olusegun Osoba and Chief Onyema Ugochukwu.

“This is not conscionable a publication; it is simply a nation-building project. The ‘Nigeria Book’ is simply a 700-page compendium of Nigeria’s identity, struggle, triumphs and potential. It captures who we are, our people, our cultures, our values and our corporate quest to specify our spot successful the world,” helium said.

He explained that the publication would beryllium launched arsenic an authoritative nationalist publication offering a timeline of Nigeria’s identity, taste improvement and its independency journey, covering some the pre-independence and post-independence eras.

“We privation to archer the Nigerian communicative arsenic it is done the lens of a level that has been contiguous astatine each milestone of our nationalist development.

Daily Times has ever been much than a newspaper. It is simply a nationalist bequest and a custodian of Nigeria’s memory,” Anosike stated.

Providing further penetration into the monumental work, the main researcher of the Nigeria Book project, Aare (Dr) Tunji Okegbola, a erstwhile main librarian of Daily Times, noted that the inaugural was an implicit a decade-long effort involving rigorous archival probe and humanities documentation.

“This publication captures Nigeria successful its purest form, from the divers tribes to earthy materials, nationalist identity, and the afloat splendour of its land. We didn’t conscionable probe a country, we told the communicative of a people, their aspirations, and their travel done time,” Okegbola said.

According to him, the Nigeria Book is structured astir Daily Times’ extended archives, which stay the astir broad successful the country, with this publication serving arsenic an authentic notation constituent for aboriginal generations, policymakers and planetary observers seeking to recognize Nigeria’s analyzable but inspiring story.

Anosike further recounted the revival travel of Daily Times, which was acquired by Folio Communications successful 2004 aft years of organization decline. He reflected connected the publication’s cardinal relation successful nation-building, from pioneering fiscal journalism to advocating democracy