The company began business with the establishment of a state-wide newspaper called YOBE NEWS based in Damaturu, Yobe State capital in the North-Eastern region of Nigeria in July 1995, about 3 years before the company’s incorporation.

It is pertinent to add that the newspaper is an initiative of the company’s brainchild and initial sole owner of Towers & Towers Communications Limited - Mr Wasiu Oladipo Sanusi.

Sanusi, a Yoruba man from Ibadan, Oyo State in the South-West of Nigeria was on one year compulsory national youth servive scheme for graduates in far away Yobe State when he designed and produced the newspaper. It was his personal community development service (CDS) project.

CDS is an integral part of the National Youth Service Corps programme aimed at instilling, in Nigerian youths, the spirit of self-help, self-reliance, dignity of labour and selfless service to fatherland.

The young youth corps member, whose idea of creating and promoting a culture of awareness among the people of the rural state, was awarded both state and national laurels, eventually transformed the project to a business venture.

His was a classical example of selfless service to fatherland which literally turned to self help, an idea the government was trying to promote among young graduates to battle the scourge of surging unemployment in the country.

Six years into the business of newspapering, the young entrepreneur, desirous of expanding his scope of operation, succumbed to the pressure from potential investors who were convinced by the steady growth of the humble project. Hence the need for an increase in share capital from its initial 100,000 registered in 1997.