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Channels Television is one of the 13 independent television stations currently broadcasting in Nigeria, since the Federal Government deregulated the broadcast media in 1992. The Company was licensed in June 1993 and allocated a frequency on UHF (channel 39). It began transmission two years later under the name Channels Television and now broadcasts to a well discerning audience of over 20 million people. The establishment of Channels Television as a news station was in response to the yearning of Nigerians for a TV station that will among other things: * Give an alternative medium of communication to the government and its policies, and hold public officers accountable to the people; * Accommodate opposing views; * Inform and educate the general public on how they are governed as well as, what their civic responsibilities are; * Uphold the ideals of balanced reporting, objectivity, fairness and the right of the individual to communicate. Channels Television’s bias for news has placed it well above other competitors in the Nigerian television industry. The station has bagged the ‘Best Television station of the Year’ an award endowed by the Nigerian Media Merit Award Trust – thirteen times in the last sixteen years (2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 , 2016 & 2018), thereby making Channels Television “the Station of the decade”. The company is staffed with some of the best broadcast journalists in the country, with a staff strength of about 394, some of whom have received training in Europe, South Africa and the United Kingdom and the United States, and many also bagging numerous awards of different categories, nationally and internationally.

ARISE NEWS - Global news and entertainment. Every culture. Every angle. An emerging 24-hour news and entertainment channel brought to you by a diverse team of over 500 world-class journalists, and broadcasters, behind-the-scenes and in front of camera: a team dedicated to offering perspectives seldom given airtime. With broadcast hubs in London, New York, Johannesburg and Lagos, ARISE NEWS reports cold, hard facts, providing a range of opinions and insightful analysis - all day, every day and trusting our viewers to make up their own minds. The agenda is bold, but it’s simple - unclouded by partisan political interest. ARISE NEWS has a mission to cover issues and world events that matter - and to truly represent the experiences of under-served communities. We seek to champion the voices of emerging and frontier markets. We seek to promote and celebrate all that is African and Afripolitan across all continents, engaging citizens of the world in the biggest stories of the day. ARISE NEWS delivers real time international news and entertainment to global audiences, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, on cable, satellite, mobile and hand held devices and on the internet. The independence of ARISE NEWS is guaranteed. There’s no State funding, no State agenda, whether in Africa, the Middle East, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Asia, the United States or the Americas. ARISE NEWS follows the news wherever and whenever it happens, without fear, favour or bias. ARISE NEWS is about people, about entertainment - about the stories and events that affect the lives of our viewers - wherever they may be. www.ARISE.tv

THISDAY is published by Leaders and Company Limited. It hit newsstands on January 22, 1995 and quickly carved out a niche for itself in business and political reporting and for breaking big news stories. It soon became Nigeria's newspaper of record. Today, THISDAY remains the preferred newspaper among the business, political and diplomatic elite, and is easily the most recognisable and influential national media brand globally. It is also the corporate and political advertiser’s first choice. THISDAY breaks the news first: from the story of the first arrests over the 1995 coup which lead to the imprisonment of Olusegun Obasanjo and the late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua; the death of Nigeria’s first president, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, which all other media missed; to the newspaper’s exclusive on the recovery of the Abacha billions and several more, day after day. In line with its avowed commitment to democracy, THISDAY was at the forefront of the battle against dictatorial military rule for which its reporters were invariably detained and harassed. The Chairman and Editor-in-Chief was detained in 1997 at the Department of Military Intelligence (DMI) for seven days under Abacha. The Chairman later went into self-exile. For many Nigerians, if the news is not in THISDAY, then it is not credible. Most recently, THISDAY launched ARISE, the global style and culture magazine.