Thomson Foundation helps launch new Nigerian daily newspaper

A new title is born in the Nigerian daily marketWith just three weeks to go before launch, Thomson Foundation consultant CHARLES McGHEE arrived in Abuja to support the birth of a new daily newspaper

Thomson assignments are challenging at the best of times, but when they are carried out at short notice against seemingly impossible deadlines they become even more ‘interesting’ into the bargain.

“You’ve got three weeks,” said Thomson Foundation Head of Training, Tim Rogers, “to help redesign a weekly newspaper in Nigeria and convert it into a national daily. Oh, and by the way, can you leave next weekend?”

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