[1] Founded by Nduka Obaigbena, the chairman and editor-in-chief of the This Day Media Group and Arise News.

[2] Since 2014, it has maintained a close relationship with the embassy of the People's Republic of China.

[3] This Day publisher Nduka Obaigbena has previously been criticised for late and non-payment of the paper's staff and suppliers.

[4] In 2001, several This Day editors survived a plane crash at Maiduguri airport in North East Nigeria.

[5][6] In 2012, This Day's offices in the nation's capital Abuja, and in Kaduna were attacked in suicide car bombings thought to have been carried out by terrorist group Boko Haram.