The Daily Independent (Ashland newspaper) Independent" and "The Sunday Independent" namesake, following a redesign. Colonel B.F. Forgey, an Ohio native who bought half an interest in the paper in 1910, is credited with guiding the paper's growth until his death in 1952. The newspaper continued to be privately owned until Ottaway Community Newspapers bought it in 1979, selling it to CNHI in 2002. The circulation in 1920 was 3,500 but increased to 17,000 by 1954 and peaked at 25,000 in 1980. The Daily Independent (Ashland newspaper) The Daily Independent (also known as The Sunday Independent and formerly known as The Independent from 2003 to 2015)
Leadership (newspaper) Leadership (newspaper) Leadership is a daily national newspaper established in October 2004 and is published by Leadership Newspaper Group based in Abuja, Nigeria. On its website, the paper asserts: "We shall stand up for good governance. We shall defend the interests of the Nigerian state even against its leaders and we shall raise our pen at all times in defence of what is right. These are the values by which we intend to be assessed". On 9 January 2007 a dozen State Security Service agents stormed the "Leadership" offices and arrested general manager Abraham Nda-Isaiah, editor Bashir Bello Akko and