The News Journal covers Western Nigeria most in-depth, but also offers limited coverage of north central Kwara and Kogi and south south Niger Delta, mostly by means of short news briefs. The paper publishes national and international articles from wire services.

The News Journal also maintains an Abuja bureau, mainly for covering Western Nigeria’s delegation at the Nigerian National Assembly.

The News Journal entered into publishing at a time that the Internet has reshaped how information is distributed. As a result, it commenced operations by launching a website The News Journal. The website features an online edition of all local content in the paper, as well as editorials and features.

The paper also launched itself on social networking websites and began offering an online news update as it breaks. While The News Journal breaks news through its social network and website, the print version is used in providing context and analysis to the news.

As part of its local engagement, The News Journal translates its major news into Yoruba language of the local people to foster access to information by people who could not read the official English language.

In June 2013, The News Journal provided the Ibadan Poetry Festival with a NGN 10,000 grant to organize the Festival. The Ibadan Poetry Festival was hosted by the Ibadan office of Alliance Francaise. It also supported the Association of Communication and Language Arts Students (ACLAS) of the University of Ibadan in its 2013 Student Week.

The News Journal has also earmarked NGN 100,000 in newspaper grants to the Department of Communication and Language Arts of the University of Ibadan, and continues to support the student Press Club.

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In the colonial era, the newspaper served as the mouthpiece for Awolowo’s populist welfare programmes. It also played an important role in defending the interests of the Yoruba people in a period when different ethnic groups were struggling for ascendancy.From independence in 1960 until the 1990s most publications were government-owned, but private papers such as the Nigerian Tribune, The Punch, Vanguard and the Guardian continued to expose public and private scandals despite government attempts at suppression.General Ibrahim Babangida once said that of all the Nigerian newspapers he would only read and take seriously the Nigerian Tribune’s editorial column.

The book Leadership Failure and Nigeria’s Fading Hopes by Femi Okurounmu consists of excerpts from a weekly column in the Nigerian Tribune published between 2004 and 2009. The author, a patriotic Nigerian elder statesman, laments how the corruption and the selfishness of successive leaders has destroyed the hopes not just of Nigerians, but of the entire black race.

In December 2008 Segun Olatunji, managing director and Editor-in-Chief of Nigerian Tribune, resigned, and a few days later the editor, Rauf Abiodun, also resigned as part of a series of staff changes. Mrs. HID Awolowo, who is chairman of the Nigerian Tribune’s publisher African Newspapers of Nigeria Ltd, appointed Sam Adesua as the new managing director/editor-in-chief. Edward Dickson was appointed editor of the daily paper. The changes were said to be part of a move to modernize the paper and expand beyond narrow Yoruba partisan politics in the face of competition from The Westerner, The Nation and Nigerian Compass.

In January 2011 the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) reacted angrily to an editorial in the Nigerian Tribune that accused the ACN of imposing its candidates in the party primaries for the forthcoming national elections. An ACN spokesman called the paper a front for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). He said the paper was struggling since PDP governors had been removed from Osun and Ekiti states, causing the paper to lose advertising revenue directed to the Nigerian Tribune by the former governors.The ACN said the paper was bringing shame to the name of the founder, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

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As of 2005, it has a circulation of 100,000 copies and an annual turnover of some $35 million (US). It has two printing plants, in Lagos and Abuja. The publisher was noted for his early investment in color printing, giving the paper a distinctive edge among the few durable national newspapers that exist in Nigeria. Along with many of owner and proprietor Nduka Obaigbena’s media ventures, the paper has long been riddled with controversy over the late and non payment of its staff and suppliers.

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Tell magazine published its first edition on 15 April 1991. All five of the founding editors had worked at Newswatch, where they learned to create in-depth, investigative feature stories. They left that magazine due to low pay and disagreements with senior management, hoping that the new magazine would be more fulfilling. Although the magazine’s founders had high ambitions, they were not initially hostile to the government. However, they were determined to be free of government or political influence.

The magazine questioned whether General Ibrahim Babangida was sincere in saying he would hand over to a civilian government. The 2 May 1993 edition with headline “Transition: 21 Traps against handover” was seized, and had to be reprinted in tabloid format. Two more major seizures occurred before Babangida was forced from power in August 1993.In all, 500,000 copies were seized in the last four months of Babangida’s rule.Tell’s circulation rose to as many as 100,000 copies each week in the build-up to the June 1993 presidential election and in the subsequent confusion. Facing harassment from security forces, the magazine began printing underground in July 1993. On 15 August 1993 police raided the offices and arrested editor-in-chief Nosa Igiebor and editors Kola Ilori, Onome Osifo-Whiskey and Ayodele Akinkuoto. holding them for 12 days.

Conditions became more difficult after General Sani Abacha took power in November 1993. On 2 January 1994 armed policemen and security officers seized 50,000 copies of the magazine at the printer’s premises. The issue was titled “The Return of Tyranny – Abacha bares his fangs”.The editors resorted to guerrilla tactics to survive, forming cells and frequently moving, with the magazine printed covertly in different locations. They relied on help from civilians, who supported the magazine by providing office space, buying copies and helping in many other ways.

After the newspaper published a story that revealed that Abacha was suffering from cirrhosis of the liver, police and military raided Igiebor’s house while he was away. His wife was maltreated when she said she did not know where he was. A soldier pointed a gun at his four-year-old daughter, threatening to shoot if Igiebor was not produced.[8] Igiebor was jailed for six months from late 1995 to 1996, and later fled abroad to escape the threat of assassination. Osifo-Whiskey also spent six months in detention, arrested after a year in which he avoided his own house and stayed with friends, one of whom was killed.

In 1993, the Committee to Protect Journalists presented Igiebor its International Press Freedom Award, “an annual recognition of courageous journalism”,for his work with the magazine.In 1998, Nosa Igiebor and the staff as a whole were awarded the Special Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat at the Amnesty International UK Media Awards.The award’s notice stated; “Tell has continued to publish throughout the period of Nigerian dictatorship despite intimidation, harassment and the detention without charge or trial of Mr Igiebor and other senior members of the Tell staff.”

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On July 20, 2012, a fire broke out in the Tide Newspaper main building, damaging significant portions of the establishment including, General Manager’s office, Credit Control Unit, Administration General office and Board Room. Although no injuries or deaths were reported, many of the company’s equipments and staff documents were destroyed. According to a statement from General Manager Mr. Celestine Ogolo, the fire started at around 2 a.m and quickly took over the highest floor of the building where his office was stationed. Temporary workspaces were later provided to staffs whose offices were affected by the fire.

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The Daily Sun was incorporated on 29 March 2001. It started production as a weekly on 18 January 2003, and as a daily on 16 June 2003. The target audience is young adults in the 18 – 45 years age bracket and in the B and C social economic class.The paper is similar in format to the popular Sun newspaper of the United Kingdom.

The chairman of the publishing house is Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, a former governor of Abia State. The first Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief was Mike Awoyinfa. In January 2010 there was a shake-up in which Tony Onyima succeeding Awoyinfa, and the original deputy editor, Dimgba Igwe, was replaced by Femi Adesina.Awoyinfa and Igwe remained as directors on the company’s board.

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The Punch newspaper was founded by two friends, James Aboderin, an accountant and Sam Amuka, a columnist and editor at the Daily Times. Sam 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. Both editions were designed to favor a friendlier apolitical approach to news reporting, combining footages of social events with everyday political news. The paper sustains itself by delving into broad issues that interest myriad people.

However, during the twilight of the Second Republic, political exigencies had introduced conflicts to its original intentions, Aboderin and Amuka parted ways due partly to political conflicts. Aboderin later secured the support of his former foe, MKO Abiola, after the latter left the NPN. The paper began to take on a political stance, mostly against the Shagari regime. Supposedly, days before the end of the administration of Shagari, a few Punch editors were aware of a coup approaching and injected strong anti-government tones in their reporting.

The Punch was not immune to the excess of authoritarian regimes in the country. In 1990, its editor was jailed for 54 days. In 1993, and 1994, the publishing house was closed on the direction of the nation’s ruler.

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The Awareness is intended to be a vehicle that renders itself in full service to ordinary Nigerians. This it intends to achieve by telling their stories and social problems from their own lenses, and making public the many challenges they continue to face in our nascent and budding democracy.

In a society afflicted with corruption, unconscionable leadership, economic mismanagement and misplaced priorities from those in authority, The Awareness aims to serve as a mirror to the political establishment, conscious in our duty to remind our governments of how much work is there to be done. We acknowledge good governance, proffer economic and political solutions where necessary, track policy initiatives and keep the public abreast of progress and shortcomings.

The Awareness was created for the purpose of availing Nigerians from all walks of life, the opportunity of being informed, to receive news stories and follow political debates that are unmediated by sectional or parochial power interests. Put simply, it is a platform that is never shy of asking the hard questions.

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In December 2009 agents of the State Security Service arrested the paper’s editor, Malam Ahmed Shekarau, apparently due to a report on the health of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua.

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The News was founded in 1993 by Bayo Onanuga, Babafemi Ojudu and other former staff from the African Concord who had resigned in protest over a request by M.K.O. Abiola, the publisher, to apologise to President Ibrahim Babangida over a critical story about the military regime. Ojudu was the first Managing Editor.After harassment by the Ibrahim Babangida regime, there was a brief period of press freedom under General Sani Abacha during which P.M. News was launched in August 1994 as a breezy afternoon paper strongly oriented towards news but also covering fashions, sports and entertainment.

In the years that followed, P.M. News and TheNews were known for “guerrilla journalism”.They were subject to constant interference by the authorities, arrests and closures.For example in August 1996 Amnesty International reported that Editor-in-chief Bayo Onanuga was thought to be held by the State Security Service at their Lagos headquarters, and may have been ill-treated in custody. Babafemi Ojudu had been released on 13 August 1996 and had required hospital treatment as a result of ill-treatment. The two men may have been arrested due to publishing articles critical to the government.Onanuga fled from Nigeria in 1997 after hiding from state security forces for months. He returned home to resume work at ICNL in 1998, after the sudden death of Abacha and the start of the transition to democracy.

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