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Punch Newspapers Sections About us On August 8, 1970, PUNCH (Nigeria) Limited was registered under the Companies Act of 1968 to engage in the business of publishing newspapers, magazines and other periodicals. It was designed to inform, educate and entertain Nigerians and the world at large. In 1971, the company made its debut with the publication of HAPPY HOME, a glossy, family-oriented magazine. Its first editor was Bunmi Sofola. On Sunday, March 18, 1973, its first weekly newspaper, SUNDAY PUNCH hit the newsstand. The first editor was Ajibade Fashina Thomas. The newspaper was designed “t...

Jakande I stood rooted to the ground watching the convoy accompanying the hearse conveying the remains of Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, the unmatched reference point in modern governance in Nigeria, and the poster face of fearless journalism, to Vaults and Gardens, Ikoyi. Everywhere, upon learning about the passing of the convoy and identifying it as Jakande’s, people abandoned whatever they were doing and rushed to learn his route to bid him farewell. Waving their hands, they hailed him “Jakande, Baba dada; (Jakande, the good old man); “Irin re o!”(Safe journey). It was an outpouring...

I’d be going for Master’s after law school – 78-year-old fresh law graduate Published 27 December 2020 Chief Suleiman Adepoju, 78 years old, is a fresh Law graduate from Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State. The septuagenarian former bank director tells OLADIMEJI RAMON the motivation behind his return to school at old age to study Law and what he plans to do with the new degree When I was born on February 2, 1942 in Ibadan, Oyo State. What were your most memorable childhood experiences? One was the day I started secondary school in 1957, when I had to travel from Ibadan to Imesi Ile...