Nigeria: new owners to Invest $40m in Daily Times
It is important for Africa because the continent needs strong - and independent - media groups. According to AllAfrica, "The 78-year old Daily Times, the oldest Nigerian daily newspaper is to receive a massive capital investment of $40 million (about N5,280,000,000), over the next three years, its new owners, Folio Communications have said. Mr. Fidelis Anosike, Executive Chairman, Folio Communications Limited and Chairman/Publisher of Times Media Plc said that as part of plans to reposition the newspaper, $10m-$15m will be injected into the company in 2005, another $15m in 2006 and the balance in 2007.
Anosike said that the investment will be in the areas of an infrastructure backbone that will see the newspaper being printed simultaneously from three locations in the country, a distribution infrastructure that would be Information Technology driven and capacity training. He said the company will deploy satellite communication in some of its regional offices to control both information inflow and sales, and invest in news gathering systems... Anosike said that the vision of the new owners is to build a newspaper with strong brand affinity, so that people could identify with. "Our philosophy is that there must be something in the newspaper for everybody in our repackaged and refocused Daily Times which will debut in the first quarter of 2005," he said.
Source: AllAfrica
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