Osoba, Amuka-Pemu to lead Daily Times centenary town hall on Nigeria's image
- Daily Times marks 100 years with a town hall and national conversation in Lagos on November 3.
- Aremo Olusegun Osoba will chair the event, with Sam Amuka-Pemu and Dr Yemi Ogunbiyi as co-chairs.
- Panellists include Microsoft's Olatomiwa Williams, Iyin Aboyeji and Chude Jideonwo.
Two of Nigeria's best-known media figures will lead a national conversation on how the country is seen abroad and what it has achieved at home, as the Daily Times marks its centenary.
Aremo Olusegun Osoba, a former Ogun State governor and former Managing Director of the Daily Times, will chair the DTN@100 Shaping the Future TownHall and National Conversation.
Olorogun Sam Amuka-Pemu, former editor of The Sunday Times and publisher of Vanguard Newspapers, and Dr Yemi Ogunbiyi, another former Managing Director of the Daily Times and chairman of Tanus Communications, will serve as co-chairs.
The event holds on November 3, 2026, at Harbour Point, 4 Wilmot Point Road, Victoria Island, Lagos, according to a statement by Mr Fidelis Anosike, chairman of Folio Africa and publisher of the Daily Times.
Who is on the panel
The discussion will hear from Mrs Olatomiwa Williams, Chief Growth and AI Officer for Africa and the Middle East at Microsoft; Mr Iyin Aboyeji, co-founder of Fluterwave and Andela and CEO of Future Africa; and Mr Chude Jideonwo, media personality and co-founder of RED Media.
Mr Cheta Nwanze, Managing Director of Folio Communications, publishers of the Daily Times, will anchor the session.
The day also features an Honouring the Past Exhibition, which looks back at Nigerians who shaped the country's history, and the DTN@100 Times Heroes Awards for those working to shape its future through leadership and service.
The town hall is the second major event in a centenary programme running from June 1, 2026, to June 1, 2027. The first, the inaugural Times Heroes Awards, held in Abuja on September 3, 2026, under the theme Honouring the Past, Shaping the Future.
As part of the celebrations, Folio Group says it will use the Daily Times archive to produce The Nigerian Grand Book, a 700-page national souvenir meant to tell Nigeria's story to the world and improve its global image. The programme also plans to honour 100 of the country's most impactful figures, past and present.
For many Nigerians, the takeaway is a rare public stage for a debate on the country's reputation abroad, at a time when questions of investment, jobs and how Nigeria is portrayed overseas matter to ordinary families.
What happens next
The conversation holds in Lagos on November 3. The centenary programme is expected to continue until June 2027, with the Grand Book and further Heroes Awards among its planned outputs.
