The Punch was founded by James Aboderin, an accountant, and Sam Amuka, a journalist, who picked the name for the idea that its news should land with impact. It remains family owned through Punch Nigeria Limited and was chaired by Wale Aboderin, the founder's son, until his death in 2018. The company has invested steadily in digital ventures, launching the fact-checking initiative Punchcheck in 2019, and PUNCH Healthwise followed as a dedicated health and development desk running on its own subdomain. It carries its own reporting staff, among them Angela Onwuzoo, Idowu Abdullahi, Deborah Tolu-Kolawole and Chima Azubuike reporting from Gombe, alongside agency copy and a shared reporters byline. The desk is organised around beats rather than a daily news cycle, with standing sections for maternal health, mental health, nutrition, gender, sexual health and the environment, plus short video strands including a sixty-second fact check. Today, PUNCH Healthwise is mainly focused on maternal and child health, disease control and HIV, nutrition and hunger, gender-based violence, mental health, and environmental health across Nigerian states, from their base in Lagos, Nigeria. One interesting fact: it keeps a standing Impact Stories section tracking what changed after its own reporting, including a Lagos state government decision to give a set of quadruplets free healthcare following a Punch story.