Premium Times
Premium Times is a Nigerian online newspaper based in Abuja, founded in 2011 and known for investigative and accountability journalism. It covers national politics, security, business and special reports.
Premium Times at a glance
- Country
- Nigeria
- Region
- West Africa · Africa
- Kind of outlet
- Digital-native outlet
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- premiumtimesng.com ↗
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- Renders inside Crosswire's comparison panes (last checked 2026-09-14).
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Premium Times front page, right now
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Is Premium Times left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Crosswire lists Premium Times as Center within Nigeria's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side.
Read Premium Times beside another title from Nigeria and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Digital-native outlets reorder their front pages continuously in response to reader behaviour, so Premium Times may look different an hour from now — reload it alongside a print-cycle title and you can see which stories have staying power and which are traffic spikes. Because Premium Times is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Nigeria either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed . Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.
Where Premium Times sits in Nigeria's press
Premium Times is one of 5 outlets tracked in Nigeria and the only digital-native outlet tracked there. By outlets tracked, Nigeria ranks third of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Africa hub, which lists 178 outlets in all.
Across Africa, Crosswire tracks 64 of the 191 digital-native outlets in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Premium Times outside Nigeria, starting with West Africa, are Burkina24 (Burkina Faso), ActuNiger (Niger), Guinéenews (Guinea) and Sierraloaded (Sierra Leone). Opening one of them beside Premium Times is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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