Birthdays
OBAIGBENA, Nduka, artist, journalist, politician, businessman and publisher of Thisday
Newspaper, Lagos will be 60 on Sunday, July 14, 2019.
Born on July 14, 1959 in Ibadan, Oyo State, he hails from Delta State and attended Edo College, Benin City and Government College, Ughelli before proceeding to University of Benin, Benin City. He attended various professional, management and Graduate Schools of Business in United States, United Kingdom, South Africa and Nigeria. He started his career at Nigerian Observer in 1978 where he was a satirist, writer and cartoonist at various times.
He later became coordinating editor of The Dawn monthly magazine. He left Nigeria for UK where he worked with advertising agency, NAL and as a media consultant with Michael Jarvis and Partners.
In 1984, he became a special section representative,
Newsweek magazine, New York and as the Nigerian Representative, Time magazine, New York, United States of America.
In 1986, at the age of 26, he established a weekly new magazine, Thisweek.
In 1994, he was elected member of the constitutional conference, which drafted the present Nigerian Constitution. In 1995, he founded Leaders and Company, publishers of
Thisday newspaper. He is a member of the Newspaper Proprietors
Association of Nigeria.