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Punch Newspaper, Nigeria News, Punch News Headline Today: Punch Newspapers is the most widely read newspaper in Nigeria. Punchng.com offers Nigeria News, Top Nigerian newspapers - Breaking news - Top news headlines from Nigeria and Africa. PUNCH (Nigeria) Limited was registered on August 8, 1970, under the Companies Act of 1968 to engage in the business of publishing newspapers, magazines and other periodicals of public interest. It was designed to perform the tripartite functions of the popular mass media: informing, educating and entertaining Nigerians and the world at large. The company has a Board of Directors, hereinafter referred to as the Board, which is the highest policy-making organ of the company. Nigerian Punch Newspapers Today, Nigeria Punch news Headlines today, Latest Punch news in Nigeria. The Punch newspaper was founded by two friends, James Aboderin, an accountant, and Sam Amuka, a columnist and editor at the Daily Times of Nigeria. Amuka became the first editor of the Sunday Punch. In November 1976, a few years after the first print of its Sunday edition, the duo started printing their trademark daily newspaper. Both editions were designed to favour a friendlier apolitical approach to news reporting, combining footage of social events with everyday political news. The paper sustains itself by delving into broad issues that interest myriad people.