Who owns Daily Monitor?
Daily Monitor is owned by Nation Media Group (Kenya, NSE: NMG).[1]
Nation Media Group owns 83.3% of Daily Monitor rather than all of it.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Nation Media Group PLC — 2025 Integrated Report and Financial Statements. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Nation Media Group PLC (83.3% stake) reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇰🇪 Kenya, Nairobi
- Origin
- 🇺🇬 Uganda, Kampala
- Founded
- 1992
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Publishing › Newspapers & magazines
- Parent ticker
- NSE: NMG
- Last verified
- · 3 sources
About Daily Monitor
The Daily Monitor is a Ugandan daily newspaper, founded as The Monitor by seven young journalists, whose first issue appeared on 31 July 1992. Its publisher, Monitor Publications Limited, also runs radio stations and is 83.3% held by Nation Media Group of Kenya; other individuals hold the remaining 16.7%. The founders sold part of their shares to NMG in 2000, according to the paper. In 2025 the company ran a USh 500 million voter education partnership and a brand campaign, Uganda's Bold Voices.
Ownership timeline of Daily Monitor
- Current owner Nation Media Group (83.3%) [1] reported
Where Daily Monitor sits in Nation Media Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Nation Media Group
Nation Media Group controls 10 brands on Brandtree, 10 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
- Business Daily (2007)
- Daily Nation (1960)
- Mwananchi
- Nation FM
- NTV (1999)
- NTV Uganda (2006)
- Taifa Leo
- The Citizen (2004)
- The EastAfrican (1994)
Other brands in newspapers & magazines, and who owns them
The 77 brands in newspapers & magazines on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is Reach, with 9; Nation Media Group has 7.
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|---|---|---|
| BelfastLive | Reach | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Beobachter | Ringier | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Aftenposten | Schibsted Media | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| Condé Nast | Advance | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Country Life | Future | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Car and Driver | Hearst | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Brisbane Times | Nine | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| ARQ | Grupo Clarín | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
About the owner: Nation Media Group
Nation Media Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, founded in 1959. Brandtree records 10 brands under its control, and it is listed as NSE: NMG.
Nation Media Group PLC is a Kenyan newspaper, broadcasting and digital media company based at Nation Centre in Nairobi, with operations in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. The Aga Khan founded it in 1959; its shares have traded in Nairobi since 1973 and are also listed in Kampala, Dar es Salaam and Kigali. Revenue for 2025 was KSh 6.04 billion, 3.1% lower than in 2024, mostly because print sales fell. In March 2026 the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development agreed to sell NPRT Holdings Africa, which held 54.08% of NMG, to Taarifa Ltd.
Nation Media Group: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇬 Daily Monitor and other Ugandan brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 16 brands that began in Uganda. 4 of them (25%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Daily Monitor among them.
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- Bell Lager — EABL 🇰🇪
- JESA Bonga — Jesa Farm Dairy 🇺🇬
- Uganda Airlines — Uganda Airlines 🇺🇬
- JESA Butter — Jesa Farm Dairy 🇺🇬
- JESA JUS — Jesa Farm Dairy 🇺🇬
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Daily Monitor?
The parent company of Daily Monitor is Nation Media Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in Kenya.
Is Daily Monitor Ugandan or Kenyan?
Daily Monitor originated in Uganda in 1992, but it is owned today by Nation Media Group, which is headquartered in Kenya. So Daily Monitor is a Ugandan-origin brand under Kenyan ownership.
Is Daily Monitor still owned by Nation Media Group?
Yes. As of 23 October 2026, Daily Monitor is still owned by Nation Media Group (83.3% stake). The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (3) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Nation Media Group PLC — 2025 Integrated Report and Financial Statements — Nation Media Group PLC, Annual report; retrieved 23 October 2026.
- [2] Founders, managers celebrate The Monitor — Daily Monitor (Monitor Publications Ltd), Official document; retrieved 23 October 2026.
- [3] NMG's three decades of sour relations with govt — Daily Monitor (Monitor Publications Ltd), Official document; retrieved 23 October 2026.
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