The News Tower Magazine started in September, 2007 as a
youth magazine by the name of Inside J-Town. Inside J-Town was meant to take
advantage of the opening that seemed to exist for any magazine with an interest
in youth matters in Jos, Nigeria.
Inside J-Town had sections that included Professions and
Happiness, Tourism, Flying Colors, The Stage and the Screens, Undiscovered
Talents, World History to mention just the major sections.
It turned out that there was a loophole in the research that
led us to believe that a youth magazine will succeed in Jos. We failed to find
out the zeal of the youths in the direction of reading. The youths in Jos
didn’t seem to hunger for information, the only way to emancipate themselves
from ignorance and economic slavery.
Despite the poor sales of the magazine that led to copies
given out for free, it recorded huge successes: the discovery of Super Eagles
superstar, Ahmed Musa, in the town of Bukuru. Nonetheless, we decided to
broaden the scope of the magazine, leading to the adoption of the name to cover
new areas and the name, News Tower was adopted with the first edition coming
out in December 2007. The News Tower at the time it was founded was the first
publication in Jos that published Plateau news online. Any other news item
about Jos available online at the time came from national publications based,
mostly, in Lagos and Abuja.
In January of 2008, the first edition of News Tower went
online with the url www.newstower.joslinks.com.
It was like living in bondage. Subsequently, www.newstower.org
was adopted. Still we saw more convenience in adopting the blog website http://newstoweronline.blogspot.com
in 2010.
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