The Peoples Daily was formally presented at a ceremony in Abuja in March 2010.[3]
Chairman of the Board of Directors is Malam Wada Abdullahi Maida.[4]
At the ceremony, Malam Ismaila Isa made it clear that, despite a circulating rumour, Peoples Daily was not owned by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Instead, the company was owned by over 40 media professionals.[5]
In December 2009, agents of the State Security Service arrested the paper's editor, Malam Ahmed Shekarau, apparently due to a report on the health of ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua.[6] Shekarau later left Peoples Daily to join the Daily Trust as General Manager.[7]
In February 2025, Peoples Daily seemed to have held Edwin Kiagbodo Clark in high esteem.[8]
